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Implementing simple caching in MVC applications

Whenever I develop a new MVC-based website there is always a question of how best to implement caching so that it’s unobtrusive and...

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Movies

Paranormal Activity 4 Reviewed

Haven’t added a movie review in ages (who even reads these? Probably just me…) but what’s a blog without some posts? Now...

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Improving Entity Framework performance by tracking changes manually

Introduction While working on a recent personal project, I had the not-too-unfamiliar pleasure of fighting Entity Framework to try and get...

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Generating service contract from static WSDL and XSD files

Recently I needed to generate a service contract interface for a third-party client based on their specification. My client would be...

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Movies

Cowboys & Aliens Reviewed

So my wife and I finally watched Cowboys & Aliens last night. This was one film we debated about seeing at the cinema but eventually...

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Converting from Linq-to-SQL to Entity Framework Model First

Recently I switched hosting providers and had to update an existing project to work against a MySQL database instead of SQL Server. After...

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