I got this really strange bug where I got a 404 error on all requests I made via Ajax to methods that returned Json via MVC. Turned out that this was caused by RouteDebug that I had laying around in my bin folder. I have got this bug twice now so I just wanted to
All of a sudden all of my RSS feeds stopped working on AlternativeTo. All I got was the name of the type I returned from my MVC methods that should return a “RssResult”. After some Googling, I finally found the answer on Stack Overflow as usual. The problem was that I used version; MVC 2
I have been looking for a plugin like this for ages. I constantly switch between Swedish and English when I work and it’s a pain to always remember to switch the spell check to the correct language. But today I found Dictionary Switcher that automatically sets the spelling language to the locale of the page but also
A couple of days ago I found an awesome extension to Visual Studio that lets you just right-click a folder in VS and it will optimize all the images in it with the help of SmushIt and PunyPng. I have tried to find a tool like this for a long time but haven’t found anything that suits
I’m playing around a bit with PhoneGap at the moment. I wanted to make a script that copies all my javascript, HTML, images and CSS from my Visual Studio project folder to each of the different PhoneGap projects for iOS, Android, and so on. Visual Studio has a feature to execute commands after the project
A couple of months ago I started to use GIT as my primary Source Control. To be honest I hadn’t used any “real” source control at all before for this project. I only used an online backup service that had some basic version control on a file-to-file basis. But I love GIT. It’s really simple
We decided to move our AlternativeTo blog from Tumblr to WordPress some days ago and I just want to share some of my experiences about that process. To begin with, I didn’t get the importer that used the Tumblr API to import the blog at all. I could log in and everything but absolutely nothing happened. I waited for
I just downloaded the shiny new Visual Studio 11 BETA and haven’t had so much time to use it yet. But one thing I was curious about was the new built-in dark theme they provided. I liked the Dark Theme for the code editing windows but not so much for the rest of the UI. I solved
I have used Visual Studio 11 since it was released in beta and I must say I like it. I wanted to write down my favorite features here both to remind myself about them and to maybe give any of you random readers some tips. HTML Editor / ASP.Net You can now generate a event handler directly
I recently decided to try out my friend Sajals new CDN service over at Turbobytes. While setting this up he pointed out some issues I had with my custom origin domain that I run on IIS. IIS has some problems that many CDN doesn’t like. The “Via” Header To begin with, many CDNs send a “Via” header