Developer Notes

Git tips 3: managing two parallel versions

Git is great at merging but you have to understand when not to trust the defaults.

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Installing Sitefinity on 64-bit Windows 7

There's a crucial bit of information missing from the Sitefinity installation guid, causing 404.17 errors.

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Git Tips 2: Getting a list of all files added and removed

List all the files that were added, moved or removed between two commits into a text file.

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Secure file system access for Windows 2008 Servers

Secure file system access on Linux is easy with SSH, now you can use that on Windows as well.

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Git tips 1 : Zipping all changed files

Zip all changes since a previous commit easily.

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Castle: PerWebRequestLifeStyle revisited

A second look at Castle's PerRequestLifeStyle and application initialization.

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Castle: PerWebRequestLifeStyle won’t work from Application_Start

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MVC best practices : Don’t use strings!

Magic strings in code are usually a bad idea for anything but trivial applications, ASP.NET MVC is no exception.

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Alanta.Mvc : Multiple partial views without .aspx files

Build more flexible views in ASP.NET MVC. Code is up on GitHub.

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