Let’s suspend reality for a moment and pretend you’re heading out into the woods this weekend. Set aside the fact that you are a software developer and have no business tromping around out in the wilderness.  You’re going to want to take along a few basics:  maybe some matches, a tent or shelter of [...]

As part of my planning for 2010, I decided to write new vision statements for some of my web sites and put myself back on a content creation schedule. This site (ardentdev.com) will now be updated every Wednesday, so stay tuned via the RSS feed or subscribe by email. New Design I decided to simplify the design, opting [...]

While doing some Facebook Connect development, I found that the expected cookies were not being set when developing on localhost.  To fix the problem, I added localhost.local to my hosts file (pointing at 127.0.0.1) and changed the settings for my Facebook application to use localhost.local as the base domain.

I’ve been doing some work with ASP.NET MVC but was having periodic issues with Visual Studio 2008 hanging (freezing / becoming unresponsive) when I tried to run my web application with debugging.  The problem only occurred with a specific web project. I tried deleting the Temporary ASP.NET Files (%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET Files) but that did not solve [...]

While my buddy Jason Row was traveling home from the awesomeness that was TechDays Halifax 2009, Mother Nature invoked the Deflate() method on his tire. How does a software developer change a car tire in the dark?  By the light of his laptop screen of course:

Nice! (BTW, Jason is currently job hunting if you know someone looking [...]