The Blog of Ian Mercer.

Useful links from Twitter this week

http://kayakhttp.com/ - A lighweight C# web server that runs in process

http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/voices-case-study/ - An article about improving conversion rates

http://blogs.msdn.com/simonince/archive/2010/01/26/view-models-in-asp-net-mvc.aspx - View Models in Asp.net MVC

http://code.google.com/p/shouldit/ - A fluent approach to building assertions

http://vstortoise.codeplex.com/ - A Visual Studio add-in to enable TortoiseSVN from within Visual Studio

http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/ - A program to disable the touch pad on your laptop while you are typing

http://nokola.com/easypainter/ - An online image editor built in Microsoft Silverlight

http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele/archive/2010/02/04/super-simple-object-mapper.aspx - a dead simple mapper for mapping domain types to DTOs / view models

http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/input-validation-vs-model-validation-in-aspnet-mvc.html - changes in ASP.NET MVC to how validation works

http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/index.php?css=28#r28 - Over 150 really cool CSS table designs

http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/ - free application utilizing <canvas> to allow anyone with a web-connection and a recent copy of Safari, Firefox, Opera, or Chrome the ability to create beautiful drawings.