Kevin Hoffman

The other day I was running Microsoft's malicious software removal tool and, to my shock and horror, it did not remove all of my ASP.NET applications that make use of ViewState. I'm sure it's just an oversight and Microsoft will be releasing a patch for that soon... if there is o... (more)

A while ago my mother found a bunch of my grade school (like 3rd - 5th grade era) report cards and progress reports. They pretty universally read like "Kevin is struggling" or "Kevin is having a hard time" and go on and on to describe that I'm not doing well and that my mother re... (more)

Before I get into the main part of the blog post, I want to preface this whole thing by saying that I am well aware of the problems of doing language translation by a machine. It's an inherently difficult problem. My issue here isn't so much with Google Translate as it is with the... (more)

Cloud Hosting Journal on Ulitzer Yesterday a friend of mine was asking me what I've been doing lately in my spare time. When I mentioned that I'd been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure, he was naturally curious. After explaining what Azure is, he asked me what the... (more)

Recently a friend of mine showed me Heroku, an "instant Ruby platform". Basically what you can do with Heroku is build your Ruby application and the deployment to the remote Heroku site is not only brainless, painless, and simple, but it can be done entirely from the command line... (more)

I was just flipping through my daily RSS feeds when I stumbled on a gem from the Live team, which you can read here . This is a fairly confusing post, but this is basically what I've been able to interpret from it: What we know as the Live Framework, that many of us have been deve... (more)

First, let's talk about the problem that Polling Duplex solves. Polling Duplex is a special WCF channel that is available only to Silverlight. When your Silverlight application needs data from the server, it needs it in one of two different ways: On-Demand : Something in your ap... (more)

Recently I was reading the Hanselblog when I discovered these two articles here and here. Before I get to what I've been doing, I want to recap my usual machine (virtual and physical) usage scenarios: A clean host, this is what I do my day-to-day stuff on : writing, browsing, e-... (more)

The ASP.NET MVC framework is one of the coolest things to happen to ASP.NET since its creation. One of the things that I love about the MVC framework more than anything else is its flexibility. This flexibility allows it to be configured anyway the developer likes, including repl... (more)

When you create a new ASP.NET MVC project, one of the first things that you might notice is that you get an AccountController which takes advantage of the ASP.NET membership provider to allow your site to automatically do forms-based authentication right from the very beginning. ... (more)

As the two remaining readers of this blog are aware, I haven't posted a blog entry in quite some time. I have finally managed to get a few quiet moments in front of a computer (I'm waiting for a hideously long file transfer via hotel wireless, so I quite literally had nothing bet... (more)

This evening I discovered a minor bug in the new project template for the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 release ... (more)

In my last blog post on Oslo , I walked through a simple scenario where we created an "M" file that contained the models for a fictitious science fiction game. We used this file and IntelliPad to see what the T-SQL might look like if we were to create just the tables defined by t... (more)

In my last blog post on Oslo , I walked through a simple scenario where we created an "M" file that contained the models for a fictitious science fiction game. We used this file and IntelliPad to see what the T-SQL might look like if we were to create just the tables defined by t... (more)

In my last blog post on Oslo , I walked through a simple scenario where we created an "M" file that contained the models for a fictitious science fiction game. We used this file and IntelliPad to see what the T-SQL might look like if we were to create just the tables defined by t... (more)

In my last blog post on Oslo , I walked through a simple scenario where we created an "M" file that contained the models for a fictitious science fiction game. We used this file and IntelliPad to see what the T-SQL might look like if we were to create just the tables defined by t... (more)

In my last blog post on Oslo , I walked through a simple scenario where we created an "M" file that contained the models for a fictitious science fiction game. We used this file and IntelliPad to see what the T-SQL might look like if we were to create just the tables defined by t... (more)

In this blog post I take a quick tour through the act of taking an existing "M" model, compiling it and storing the compiled model image in the repository ... (more)

In my last blog post on Oslo , I walked through a simple scenario where we created an "M" file that contained the models for a fictitious science fiction game. We used this file and IntelliPad to see what the T-SQL might look like if we were to create just the tables defined by t... (more)

In my last blog post on Oslo , I walked through a simple scenario where we created an "M" file that contained the models for a fictitious science fiction game. We used this file and IntelliPad to see what the T-SQL might look like if we were to create just the tables defined by t... (more)