KallDrexx's Blog

  • Mimicking Html.BeginForm() to reduce html div duplication in Asp.Net MVC sites

    Recently I have been trying to find ways to reduce how much HTML I have to duplicate in my views and how I have to remember what css classes to give each set of divs. The problem comes with that the HTML that my views require don’t fit in the...

  • Testing OAuth APIs Without Coding

    While working with the LinkedIn API, I started becoming frustrated in testing my API calls. The core reason was that I couldn’t just form my URL in the web browser due to OAuth. In order to test my API calls I would have to write code to perform the call,...

  • DotNetOpenAuth, OAuth, and MVC For Dummies

    I recently was trying to understand OAuth so that I could utilize the LinkedIn API in my Asp.Net MVC application. The LinkedIn API has a pretty good summary of the OAuth process. However, the more I looked at it (and other documentation on OAuth), the more confused I got at...

  • From C# To Java: Events

    I have been developing in C# for the last 3-4 years, and before that I was primarily a php coder. During one semester of my freshman year of college I did a little Java, but not much, and I have not done any since. I have decided to work on...

  • My Adventures With RavenDB - Getting Distinct List Items

    I decided to play around with using the RavenDB database system. I wanted to see how fast it would take me to get a Raven database up and running. I was very impressed with how easy it was, and for the most part it was just a matter of storing...