BondiGeek BlogHere you will find some of the most recent blog posts from my Wordpress blog. Hope you enjoy one or two.Visit the Blog >>
Microsoft buying Skype. A stroke of genius?It’s been a while blogosphere and this post has been a long time coming. Fortunately I have been distracted by way more important things, mainly welcoming two new little geeks to the planet. My wife and I could not be happier with our two little bubs and having kids really puts things in to perspective. [...]Read more >>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:23:37 AM
Simple Azure Warmup TaskOk, gonna squeeze out a quick blog post cause it’s been way to long between drinks. I have been coding like a mad man on a new project, hence the tumbleweeds on the social front. So todays post is about creating a simple task for warming up your Azure Web Roles. Why is this important? [...]Read more >>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 9:34:56 AM
Json serialization with Windows Phone 7, WCF Data Services & AzureI have been working/collaborating on a project the past while that will be a mobile application and a location based service. At the back-end it is being designed and developed from the ground up to be scalable and high performance. It has to be cause we want this thing rolled out on the millions of [...]Read more >>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:32:47 AM
Facebook Login IntegrationThis past week I was tasked with integrating Facebook Login with a new MVC3 site I am working on and the whole process is made remarkably easy with the help of a few NuGet packages. Now I was following along with the documentation that can be found on Codeplex here but I have to confess [...]Read more >>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 9:07:46 AM
A simple C#, Thread Safe Logging ClassI was doing some work for a client recently that had all sorts of issues with logging due to some old code from the original developers. It had multiple threads all trying to write to the log file simultaneously. Needless to say loads of logging just fell by the way side as the file could [...]Read more >>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 9:07:38 PM
Simple MVC3 Ajax Feedback Form with AntiForgeryToken to prevent (most) CSRF attacksOne of the really great things about MVC3 is it’s support for forms. This might sound like a simple and basic thing but the handling of forms in ASP.NET MVC3 is vastly improved over traditional ASP.NET The code below implements a simple Feedback form which is used site-wide on http://www.bondigeek.com and utilises a couple of [...]Read more >>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 8:14:01 AM
jQuery Icon Peek animationAs I am continuing to refine the design on the new look BondGeek website I wanted to make the toolbox page a little more animated. I decided to have the square icons dropdown to reveal a text link for some of the icons that were not obvious what they are, unless you followed the link [...]Read more >>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:15:54 PM
DataCache<T>: A simple (but effective) caching classI have been using this code for a while now and thought I would post it out to the community as a simple C# DataCache class that can be re-used. This is only really applicable to non-web farm solutions as the data will be stored in process per IIS instance. If you want a distributed [...]Read more >>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:12:00 AM
Parsing WordPress ‘most recent items’ using XDocument and LINQI am in the process of re-working my personal website with a Win8 theme and wanted to retain my existing WordPress blog as is (for SEO and because WordPress is a great blogging platform) but wanted to also have the blog content on the new site. Getting the feed from WordPress of the most recent [...]Read more >>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 8:31:11 AM
Automatic Slideshow with reverse direction and random intervalsThis is a slideshow wrapper that you can re-use to display a slideshow on your site. You can see the slideshow in action at bondigeek.com/ Prerequisites: * jQuery Tested In: *IE8/IE9 * Firefox * Chrome * Safari for Windows + MAC It comes with the following features: create slideshow in 1 line of code Will [...]Read more >>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 8:43:11 AM