Charles Vallance

I came across some interesting behaviour with the ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta yesterday. When I was binding to a DateTime value it would work fine with a POST request but when I switched that to a GET request, everything bombed. Weird. After a bit more investigation I found it had to do with my culture... well, rather it had to do with the  GET request binding my date (formatted as 'dd/mm/yyyy') using the backwards American date format of 'mm/dd/yyyy' (flame on). It was late at night at the time, so I quickly whipped up a very basic ASP.NET MVC application to reproduce...

I was reading a blog entry from Mr Rowan Simpson (of trademe fame) about an idea he had and I think he's onto a winner... From his site: The problem It is very difficult to ensure that all of the page in a large and dynamic web sites contain valid HTML, especially as changes are made to those pages over time. ... The Solution While developing and testing a site, or even just while browsing, we typically visit a large number of different...

FullCodePress is a competition rather similar to the 48Hours film competition that is running in New Zealand at the moment. Difference being that it's a website and your team has half the time. From the site: On Saturday 18 August 2007, teams from Australia and New Zealand will compete to build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours. No excuses, no extensions, no budget overruns. Sounds like a great idea, but I can't help but wonder whether 24 hours is going to be long enough... Technorati Tags: general,web...