Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category

Let me Bing that for you

Posted on October 19, 2009, 9:19 am, by Maarten Balliauw, under ASP.NET, c#, Fun, General, ICT, Internet, MVC.

Have you ever been bugged with stupid questions? Do you get tired of people asking stuff that is only one search engine query away? Chances are you answered both of these questions with “yes!”. Together with Phil Haack and Juliën Hanssens, I created LetMeBingThatForYou.com, a website that generates a search engine query for people who ask you questions they could easily answer by themselves.

Yes, the idea is a copy of LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com. However, we thought Bing deserved something similar. We even got Bing’s picture of the day working. How cool is that?

Find Chuck Norris

One last note: this project is not associated with Microsoft nor Bing. We’re doing this project for fun.

kick it on DotNetKicks.com

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Remix 2009 session – Slides and code

Posted on September 29, 2009, 6:38 pm, by Maarten Balliauw, under ASP.NET, c#, Events, Fun, General, ICT, Internet, MVC, Presentations, testing.

As promised during the session at Remix 2009, here’s my example code and slide deck.

Abstract: "Building a Twitter clone in 60 minutes, featuring what’s new in ASP.NET MVC 2 preview 1 and focusing on some of the core ASP.NET MVC features like security and routing."

Example code can be downloaded here: ASP.NET MVC Wisdom – ReMix.zip (8.91 mb)

Thank you for attending!

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