Peter Eysermans

Testing the OnActionExecuting event of a Controller

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress I was doing a bit of refactoring on an ASP.NET MVC web application and was using the OnActionExecuting event in a controller to do authentication. I had not yet written a test for

VMWare Fusion vs Parallels

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress I have been using a Mac as my main development machine for over a year now. I have been very happy with it, you could call me an Apple fanboy. Because I develop in

Austin and Kaizenconf Part 2

Using and abusing ASP.NET MVC for fun and profit Being a huge fan of ASP.NET MVC, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to see guys that are much smarter than I am show off how they use the MVC framework. Jeremy and Chad showed real code of how

Austin and Kaizenconf Part 1 - workshops

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress It's finally there, Jan and I departed from Belgium to Austin, Texas to attend Kaizenconf. I have been looking forward to this for quite a while. It didn’t start out good

Creating a menu for your ASP.NET MVC website using HTML helpers

I've been working with ASP.NET MVC for a few months and it has been quite a ride. I'm working on a website where the menu is loaded from the database. It should be rendered as an unsorted list and a CSS class should be added

Aggiorno, the Italian colleague you’ve always wanted

Ever had someone come to your desk and saying: I have a little project for you, you should change something in our state of the art web application. After agreeing you would do the changes, you open up the solution and you see that the state of the art application

Descriptive names versus abbreviations for UI elements

I have been using abbreviations for UI elements for a long time. I think most developers have and still do. When you declare a button which will give the user the possibility to log on, it will be called: btnLogOn (or something similar). At first I wasn’t really thinking

Brazilian waxing, choosing a JavaScript framework and why I don’t like ASP.NET AJAX

Let me first clarify something. As Jan pointed out I am into Brazilian waxing but please, all you pervert guys stop sending me emails with questions about the subject! Now that's taken care of, we can get to the matter at hand. A couple of days ago, somebody

Building accessible web forms with ASP.NET

First of all, let me welcome you to my brand new blog. It will serve as a personal reference and a way to (hopefully) become a better software developer by researching and writing about technology. And don't forget if you liked the article, subscribe to the RSS. It&

Before I sign, can I see your codebase?

Changing employers is always a hard decision to make. Whatever the reason is you found that new opportunity that caught your attention: money, fame, need for a new challenge. There are plenty of jobs in the sea, certainly as a developer, and it’s hard to find that one true