Andy Butland

Linking to an article I've had published on Script Junkie: Ajax, ASP.Net MVC and Progressive Enhancement .

I've blogged previously about the validation methods I've used on ASP.Net MVC projects and have recently been adapting this for use with version 2 of the framework. One of the new features I wanted to make available was the use of data annotations for validation , where domain or view model classes can be decorated with attributes for validation of required fields, field lengths and range values. These can then be used for both server side and client side validation . I ran into a problem with this though when validating entities that had related items - for example in my case I was working on a project management tool, where an entity such as a project is related to others such as a client and an account manager . The client entity has required fields such as a name, but when validating before saving the project entity I didn't really care about that as I was only interested in the client ID to perform the update operation. The validation by default is set up to perfor...

Armed with a copy of the Pragmatic Programmer's book and a lot of Googling, have made a start recently on developing apps for the iPhone . Took a while to find my way around XCode, Interface Builder and to get to thinking again about things like memory management, but made some progress and have released an app for bass guitar players learning scales or modes . It's fairly straightforward - is based on a navigation controller app, and has a single table view for selecting the scale and then a custom view for displaying the scale itself. You can choose the mode, key and speed and then view the tablature for playing the scale as well as listening to it played and viewing the fingering positions. The only tricky bit really was the display of the scale and for this I needed to develop a custom UIView . By doing this you can draw directly to the canvas - which I needed to do for the tab lines (or strings) and for plotting the finger positions of the scale. Normally with a view ...