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Re: Sim City or Eco-City In China

USB 3G — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:40:45 -0000

Oh nice, thanks for share!

Re: Upgrade from ASP.NET MVC 1 to MVC 3

Marcelo Clerici — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:02:18 -0000

Hi Marc!
I'm facing a similar task and would be nice to known how it went for you.
Thanks
Marcelo.

Re: Setting up the FQL Console on Windows

Waddy707 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:30:40 -0000

I've followed your post, and have jdk1.6.0_24 installed, have made the changes accordingly, but the bat file fails to execute.

DO I have to make config changes to IIS7 or apache 2.1 to get this to run on localhost port 8081?

Where do I install the files, I've just placed them in the C drive root, not in inetpub wwwroot?

Cheers.

Re: Sending Amazon SES Emails through a Mock SMTP Server in .NET

Bogdan Gusiev — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:28:47 -0000

Try also http://mailtrap.io web service.

It give you remote smtp server account and direct access to all mails in it.

Re: OMG Facebook Finally Officially Announces Official Facebook C# SDK

Marko — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:39:34 -0000

Hey, i am fresh fb developer, and my language of choise is C#. I've been to developers page on facebook, but as it seems the SDK for C# is still left on the alpha version. Do you have any info why is that? Will there be some update?

Re: Best Tag Editor jQuery Plugin

Mrachrs — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:00:19 -0000

thanks very helpful

Re: Using Data Annotations and Extensions with SubSonic 3.0

Dave — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:44:52 -0000

its actually quite old that and now i have very much improved the code, and now use the TT file to generate a class for usage with the EFCodeFirst and MVC Scaffolding ( much easier and faster to work with ). also i have a way out of the gotcha too , i guess i could do a new tutorial if you wish to host it, and maybe amend for MsSQL as i use MySQL email me david at uyrdesign dot com

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Re: Razor is Sharp, C? NuGet it? Notes from MvcConf 2 and Pluralsights Videos

Shabir Ahmed — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:19:31 -0000

Nice Post, I myself tried it using WebMatrix

Re: Sending Amazon SES Emails through a Mock SMTP Server in .NET

Subtildream — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:56:17 -0000

Hi,
i am very happy to find your post, i would like to use amazon ses localy with an smtp but i am totally newbie. i have question:

"Once you’ve got the source" there is a lot of source code, wich one do i take?
"Next find the Store() function" i did not find it?
"Remember to include the namespaces" Where?
What do i do with the source code after?

Sorry i am totally newbie at this.

Thank you for your help

Re: Using ASP.NET MVC Views to Send Email via Amazon Simple Email Service using Postal

Marc M — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:03:20 -0000

Ahh, yeah that would be smart. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Using ASP.NET MVC Views to Send Email via Amazon Simple Email Service using Postal

andrewdavey — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:39:20 -0000

It's great to see Postal getting some use!
Quick idea: You could create a new implementation of IEmailService called AmazonEmailService that wraps Postal's default EmailService. In the Send method call CreateMailMessage on the wrapped service and then send using your Amazon API.
That way you can easily switch between SmtpClient sending and Amazon sending without changing any controller code.

Re: The Guess Tracker for RetailMeNot’s MoneyJar Contest

Marc M — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:43:38 -0000

It was a big clue, and thanks for bringing it to my attention. I started looking at implementing it but apparently someone has won today!

The correct guess was $6019.35 via these Tweet from @RetailMeNot "Congratulations to @tea4two20 for her correct #moneyjar guess of $6019.35!"

Re: The Guess Tracker for RetailMeNot’s MoneyJar Contest

Marvin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:37:31 -0000

Just curious, they added a 9th clue today. Do you plan on implementing this into your algorithm?

Re: The Guess Tracker for RetailMeNot’s MoneyJar Contest

Marc M — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:37:46 -0000

It works by calling the Twitter API and searching for all tweets with the #MoneyJar hashtag (as having this hashtag is noted as a must to be a valid entry in the RetailMeNot rules). It then inputs the data into a database with the twitter user and extracts the monetary value of the guess made.

It has only been tracking data since about 12/23/10. Twitter data doesn't go back any further than 10 days I believe, so unfortunately some data is missing. Luckily the older data was before the most recent / important clue (#8) was announced which really narrowed the odds down. However, if you'd like to email me the data you've collected from 11/17 on I can probably figure a way to input it into the database.

It isn't currently checking for duplicate entries on the same day, although I think I could easily implement that... Thanks for the idea. I'd have to assume retailmenot would only accept the first guess made each day.

It also doesn't factor rule #6 as I don't know which tweet their were referring to, and there is no sound logic behind "close".

Re: The Guess Tracker for RetailMeNot’s MoneyJar Contest

PepGiraffe — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:11:57 -0000

Wow! I think this might be the first time ever that a stranger (you) has ever picked up a post of mine. Thank you! Now for the serious questions.

I am wondering how you are curating your data. I compiled a spreadsheet of all guesses in the $6k range between 11/17/10 and 12/23/10 and again between 12/29/10 and today (I went on vacation in between). However, since I am not recording people's user names, I can't discount people who are posting more than once a day unless it is really obvious. If they do post more than once a day, do their first posts count or not? Or is rmn even keeping track of that or do they only take it into consideration if the post is a winner?

In addition, I am not sure that I caught all the instances where people forgot to write @retailmenot (I've been searching using the hashtag). I may have tracked those. I am obviously not as savvy as you or I would have figure out how to do it in some non-manual sense.

Lastly, does your auto-guess generator take into account clue number six and if so, which dates are you using? What is your interpretation of "close?"

Re: OpenGraphNET – A Simple Open Graph Library for .NET

Toby Inkster — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:47:36 -0000

Either the HTML element or the HEAD element -- or indeed each individual META element, though that's a little wasteful.

Re: OpenGraphNET – A Simple Open Graph Library for .NET

Marc M — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:34:29 -0000

Actually the code in the CreateOpenGraphHtml currently just outputs the meta elements, not the HEAD tags.

Anyway, I'll add the feature to include the HEAD tag. I realize it would be ok to include the xmlns in the HEAD element, but FB has the xmlns:og attribute string in the HTML element by default. Did you mean the HTML element?

Re: OpenGraphNET – A Simple Open Graph Library for .NET

Marc M — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:53:19 -0000

Thanks for the feedback Toby, I'll be sure to add that as an option.

Re: OpenGraphNET – A Simple Open Graph Library for .NET

Toby Inkster — Sun, 16 May 2010 04:58:09 -0000

In the HTML generated by CreateOpenGraphHtml, it would be nice if you could add xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/s..." to the HEAD element.

Re: Setting up Graffiti CMS

Mike JJ — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:57:59 -0000

That's amazing and so nicely written.Normally I don't make posts on the internet, however I've to say that this site really made me want to. Really awesome little bit of advice

Re: How to Replace NULL with ZERO in SQL Syntax

mike — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:10:38 -0000

Thanks good example

Re: A Developer’s Look: Twitter API, jQuery, SubSonic and More Under the Hood of CouponFollow

A Developer’s Look: Twitter AP — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:02:32 -0000

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Re: A Developer’s Look: Twitter API, jQuery, SubSonic and More Under the Hood of CouponFollow

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