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A New Home For The BrainDonor Network 10 Apr 2012 | 06:12 pm
The BrainDonor Network has a new home in the cloud! I have moved everything from Slicehost to Amazon Web Services. With Rackspace finally pushing through the migration of server images from Slicehost ...
Getting Started with MongoDB 2 Mar 2012 | 08:03 pm
When I first got started with MongoDB in my ASP.NET development I wasn't able to find as much information as I hoped to on how to get started with MongoDB. All of the core documentation focuses on int...
jQuery Best Practices Part 2: Chaining 21 Feb 2012 | 06:53 am
In Part One, I discussed managing the scope of $(document).ready(). Next comes the challenge of organizing the contents of $(document).ready() to balance efficiency and maintainability. My team accomp...
New WordPress Theme 17 Feb 2012 | 07:13 am
Welcome to the new and improved Braindonor Network. As you can see, I have completely updated the WordPress theme of this site. There are still some rough edges—but I liked the new theme so much that ...
I’ve Joined the NoSQL Movement…How About You? 11 Feb 2012 | 12:13 pm
Leave it to O'Rielly to give a great summary of NoSQL—and express what I have been telling other developers. NoSQL is not a technology. It's a different way of looking at large data sets and data-driv...
jQuery Best Practices Part 1: Managing Scope 9 Feb 2012 | 05:12 pm
I've been asked by a large number of developers if I know any solid jQuery best practices. The answer is a huge YES! I'm also getting around to changing my answer to their immediate follow-up. Do you ...
Integrating Bootstrap Error styling with MVC’s Unobtrusive Error Validation 8 Feb 2012 | 06:28 pm
A common component of many of the websites that I build are small administrative areas where clients are able to perform tasks such as downloading leads or scheduling appointments. Until recently, mos...
Get Chirpy To Play Nice with Twitter’s Bootstrap 6 Feb 2012 | 06:52 pm
I have begun using Twitter's Bootstrap framework to build administration sites for the MVC apps that I am building. Bootstrap makes it trivial to keep all of the views clean and consistent--without ne...
Visual Studio Fun: Chirpy is Awesome! 21 Jan 2012 | 07:11 am
Managing the CSS and JavaScript files of a website can be an extremely frustrating, but rewarding experience. I've been introducing tools at work to help manage this experience such as SASS, LESS, Cof...
jQuery and ASP UpdatePanel Integration 2 Jun 2010 | 05:42 am
With my latest gig sending me back into the .NET world, I have been busy migrating quite a few of my tools and experience to play nice with ASP.NET sites. One of my favorite open-source tools that is ...
