http://www.zenjiwebworks.com Website development and consultancy Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:10:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Andy produces more artwork than I would believe possible from one person! There was an obvious requirement to create a stylish and easily updated portfolio for his work. The site was developed using the CakePHP framework and layouts created by Ben of Radio Design. Check out the site at www.andy-potts.com. http://www.zenjiwebworks.com/2009/07/22/andy-potts-new-web-site/ I only just noticed that there's a blogging app for Wordpress on the iPhone. It happily gets around the problem with Safari not allowing image uploads. http://www.zenjiwebworks.com/2009/03/12/iphone-blogging/ There is an issue with using the following code in an action filter: filterContext.HttpContext.Response.Redirect(loginUrl, true); which is a bit of code quite common in an authentication filter. The problem is it will throw a ThreadAbortException as soon as you put your code on a live site resulting in the error page for ... http://www.zenjiwebworks.com/2008/12/19/aspnet-mvc-actionfilters-and-responseredirect/ It's hard to believe how badly this is handled in IIS. Admittedly I've only tried it in IIS 6, but I see no evidence that it gets any better in IIS 7. So here's the problem - you create a website that allows the upload of images (or any file types ... http://www.zenjiwebworks.com/2008/12/11/maximum-request-length-exceeded/ This is something I think is particularly poorly documented for the MVC framework. It took me a long time Googling and, in the end, guessing in order to get it to work correctly (and it's still not how I'd like it, but there you go). Simply put, this is the ... http://www.zenjiwebworks.com/2008/12/09/using-htmldropdownlist-in-aspnet-mvc/ One of the big problems with the early adoption of any framework is the documentation. No books are released yet, if they are ever going to be, and so turning to Google is your best bet. In fact it's your only option and my own preference is using Google over ... http://www.zenjiwebworks.com/2008/12/05/creating-strongly-typed-views-in-aspnet-mvc-beta/ Now I'm a huge fan of the ASP.NET MVC framework. So much so that I have taken to porting across applications already started using the Castle Monorail framework. Why? Well, there's just a nice, warm, supported feeling when using a framework that is built-in to your chosen development platform. Or at least ... http://www.zenjiwebworks.com/2008/11/28/deploying-aspnet-mvc-applications/ You may not have heard of Mark Taplin, but if you watch MTV or VH1 you've likely seen his animation work. He also provides illustrations for various modern publications. http://www.taplabs.com/ Mark decided it was time to update the existing site with something which represented his growing portfolio a little better, and which allows ... http://www.zenjiwebworks.com/2008/09/16/taplabs-goes-live/ Everyone knows that when you have a text box which accepts a number, it should automatically right-align the text content. Well maybe not everyone, but accountants certainly do and if you're writing an application for an accountant it just won't look right unless the values are right-aligned. Simple, I thought - ... http://www.zenjiwebworks.com/2008/07/11/the-trouble-with-right-alignment-of-input-fields/ An interesting job this one - develop a proof of concept application for vehicle tracking using the Google Maps API. The vehicles in question are already fitted with a GPS positioning system which also provide various other useful bits of information, most notably g-forces. We've managed to create an application that ... http://www.zenjiwebworks.com/2008/06/18/google-maps-proof-of-concept/