Deploying a Public NuGet.org Package From Scratch
As I prepare to release my first NuGet package, I figured I would provide a walkthrough of how I set all this up. While I’ve used NuGet before (and even set up a private feed for internal libraries at my day job using ProGet, which is awesome), I’ve never published a public package to NuGet.org. While there is ample help available, it can be a little confusing how to rig everything up. I also wanted to enable continuous integration so that every time I committed a change to my library, it would automatically push a new NuGet package.
Simple Row Coloring in a KendoUI Grid
So you want to color the rows of your KendoUI grid based on the grid data. This is one of those problems that seems like it should be really simple, but if you search the Internet you'll turn up a bunch of convoluted answers. Most of the recommendations relate to row templates. That's fine if you want to completely restyle the grid rows, but just changing the background color shouldn't be so hard. Thankfully, there is a better way.
New Blog
It's been a little while coming, but I'm finally launching my new blog. It's built from scratch in ASP.NET MVC. Why go to all the trouble to build a blog engine from scratch when there are a gazillion great engines already out there? That's a very good question, let me break it down for you.