Smidge 2.0 alpha is out
Over the past few months I’ve been working on some enhancements to Smidge and have found a bit of time to get an alpha released. There’s loads of great new features in Smidge 2.0! New Features…
ClientDependency 1.8 released
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ASP.Net Identity for Umbraco Members
I’ve just released the beta version of UmbracoIdentity which allows for ASP.Net Identity to be used with Umbraco for front-end members. I’ve tried to write enough documentation for you to get started,…
PetaPoco may cause high memory usage with certain queries
If you are using PetaPoco, or NPoco (which seams to be the most up-to-date fork of the project), the title of this post might be a bit scary… but hopefully you won’t have to worry. This really depends…
Articulate 1.0.4 released
I’ve finally got around to releasing Articulate 1.0.4 today. Want to say a big thanks to all those who submitted pull requests, you guys rock! There’s a few nice fixes in this release but most importa…
ASP.Net 5 - Re-learning a few things (part 1)
ASP.Net 5 (aka vNext) is now in Beta and the Visual Studio 2015 preview is now out! So, what is this new ASP.Net? The 2 biggest features is that it’s totally open source and it will support a cross pl…
ASP.Net 5 Re-learning a few things (part 2)
This is part 2 of a series of posts about some fundamental changes in ASP.Net 5 that we’ll all need to re-learn (or un-learn!) Part 1: http://shazwazza.com/post/aspnet-5-re-learning-a-few-things-part-…
Articulate 1.0.5 released
Good news! Today Articulate 1.0.5 has been released which has quite a few issues fixed, here’s the gist: #49 - Doesn't work with Umbraco 7.2 #18 - HasProperty on a partial view throws an error when L…
Model binding with FromServices in ASP.Net 5
Here’s a pretty nifty feature I found in ASP.Net 5 – you can construct your model during model binding with IoC without any additional work. This is available on the dev branch on GitHub and is based…
Introducing ‘Smidge’ – an ASP.NET 5 runtime JS/CSS pre-processor
During the past month I decided to dive deep into learning ASP.NET 5, and what better way to learn than to start a new OSS project :) I chose to make a new new simple and extensible Javascript/CSS runtime pre-processor for ASP.NET 5. It does file minification, combination and compression, has a nice file caching layer and it’s all done in async operations. I ported over a few ideas and code snippets from CDF (client dependency framework) but with a more modern approach. I’ve called it ‘Smidge’ = something really small.…