A great site for developing and testing regular expressions

My love/hate relationship with Stackoverflow

Stackoverflow is a terrific source of information but can also be infuriating.

Ian Mercer

Logging with Xamarin Insights (but not on Unified App)

Ian Mercer

Xamarin Forms Application For Home Automation

Building a Xamarin Forms application to control my home automation system

Ian Mercer

A strongly-typed, RegEx-based parser for handling input strings

Ian Mercer

JSON Patch - a C# implementation

Ian Mercer

Websites should stop using passwords for login!

A slightly radical idea to eliminate passwords from many of the websites you use just occasionally

Ian Mercer

Dynamically building 'Or' Expressions in LINQ

How to create a LINQ expression that logically ORs together a set of predicates

Ian Mercer

VariableWithHistory - making persistence invisible, making history visible

A novel approach to adding history to variables in a programming language

Ian Mercer

Neo4j Meetup in Seattle - some observations

Some observations from a meetup in Seattle on graph databases and Neo4j

Ian Mercer

Updated Release of the Abodit State Machine

A hierarchical state machine for .NET

Ian Mercer

My first programme [sic]

At the risk of looking seriously old, here's something found on a paper tape

Ian Mercer

Building a better .NET State Machine

A state machine for .NET that I've released on Nuget

Ian Mercer

The Internet of Dogs

Connecting our dog into the home automation

Ian Mercer

A simple state machine in C#

State machines are useful in many contexts but especially for home automation

Ian Mercer

Programming a smart home with a fluent, domain-specific language

Ian Mercer

Convert a property getter to a setter

Ian Mercer

What if ... you could define and query an Ontology using natural language?

Ian Mercer

Dynamic persistence with MongoDB - look, no classes! Multiple inheritance in C#!

Ian Mercer

Home network crawler - cataloging every file on the home LAN with C# and MongoDB

Ian Mercer

Stop writing rude software! Use LASTINPUTINFO instead.

Ian Mercer

C# Natural Language Engine connected to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online

Ian Mercer

Class-free persistence and multiple inheritance in C# with MongoDB

Ian Mercer

Random names in C# using LINQ and a touch of functional programming

Ian Mercer

How to get CrmSvcUtil.exe to work with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 online

Ian Mercer

Extending C# to understand the language of the semantic web

Ian Mercer

Custom Serialization for MongoDB - Hashset with IBsonSerializable

Ian Mercer

File and image upload security considerations and best practices

Ian Mercer

Algorithm Complexity and the 'Which one will be faster?' question

Ian Mercer

A Semantic Web ontology / triple Store built on MongoDB

Ian Mercer

Task Parallel Library: A scheduler with priority, apartment state and maximum degree of parallelism

Ian Mercer

MongoDB Map-Reduce - Hints and Tips

Ian Mercer

Exception: An object with the same key already exists in the ObjectStateManager. The ObjectStateManager cannot track multiple objects with the same key.

Help with this exception

Ian Mercer

Continuous Link and SEO Testing - Announcing LinkCheck2

Ian Mercer

A Bayesian Spam / Relevance Filter for Seesmic / Twitter

Ian Mercer

Constrained parallelism for the Task Parallel Library

Ian Mercer

Singleton tasks: A TaskFactory for the Task Parallel Library with 'run-only-one' semantics

Ian Mercer

GDI+ Image.FromFile has a problem - here's how to fix it

Ian Mercer

Weather Forecasting for Home Automation

Ian Mercer

Sequential Logic Blocks - compared to the Reactive Framework

Ian Mercer

Lengthening short Urls in C#

Ian Mercer

Recent reading material on .NET and software development in general

Ian Mercer

An ontology triple (quad) store for RDF/OWL using Entity Framework 4

Ian Mercer

The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable

Ian Mercer

Error 3032: Problem in mapping fragments : mapped to the same rows in table

Ian Mercer

A simple redirect route handler for ASP.NET 3.5 routing

Ian Mercer

Why functional programming and LINQ is often better than procedural code

Ian Mercer

10 reasons my O(n²) algorithm is better than your O(n) algorithm

Ian Mercer

Why don't you trust your build system?

Ian Mercer

Putting a feedback button on every page with ASP.NET MVC and JQuery

Ian Mercer

A simple web crawler in C# using HtmlAgilityPack

Ian Mercer

Using Exception.Data to add additional information to an Exception

Ian Mercer

ASP.NET MVC SEO - Solution Part 1

Ian Mercer

Elliott 803 - An Early Computer

Ian Mercer

ASP.NET MVC meet SEO; SEO meet ASP.NET MVC

Ian Mercer

Certificates for the Microsoft MyDotNetStory competition

Ian Mercer

A strongly-typed natural language engine (C# NLP)

Ian Mercer

DateTime values should always be stored in UTC

Ian Mercer

Interesting or useful links on Twitter this week relating to .NET and C#

Ian Mercer

Building sitemap.xml for SEO ASP.NET MVC

Ian Mercer

Issues combining ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms in the same application

Ian Mercer

String extension methods for truncating and adding ellipsis

Ian Mercer

If it walks like a class, talks like a class, it probably is a class

Ian Mercer

Home Automation with Voxeo (VoxML/Voice XML)

Ian Mercer

Continuous Integration -> Continuous Deployment

What is "quality" in terms of a released software product or website?

Ian Mercer

Making a bootable Windows 7 USB Memory Stick

Here's how I made a bootable USB memory stick for Windows 7

Ian Mercer

Tip: getting the index in a foreeach statement

A tip on using LINQ's Select expression with an index

Ian Mercer

SQL Server - error: 18456, severity: 14, state: 38 - Incorrect Login

A rant about developers using the same message for different errors

Ian Mercer

WCF and the SYSTEM account

Namespace reservations and http.sys, my, oh my!

Ian Mercer

404 errors on IIS6 with ASP.NET 4 Beta 2

Ian Mercer

Mixed mode assembly errors after upgrade to .NET 4 Beta 2

Fixing this error was fairly simple

Ian Mercer

The EntityContainer name could not be determined

How to fix the exception "the entitycontainer" name could not be determined

Ian Mercer

Shortened URLs should be treated like a Codec ...

Expanding URLs would help users decide whether or not to click a link

Ian Mercer

Tagging File Systems

Isn't it time we stopped knowing which drive our file is on?

Ian Mercer

Introducing Jigsaw menus

A novel UI for menus that combines a breadcrumb and a menu in one visual metaphor

Ian Mercer

Entity Framework in .NET 4

Ian Mercer

Fix for IE's overflow:hidden problem

Ian Mercer

A better Tail program for Windows

A comparison of tail programs for Windows

Ian Mercer

Measuring website browser performance

Found this great resource on website performance

Ian Mercer

Amazon Instance vs Dedicated Server comparison

Some benchmark performance for Amazon vs a dedicated server

Ian Mercer

Generate a SQL Compact Database from your Entity Model (EDMX)

Ian Mercer

System.Data.EntitySqlException

Hints for dealing with this exception

Ian Mercer

Agile Software Development is Like Sailing

You cannot tack too often when sailing or you get nowhere. Agile is a bit like that.

Ian Mercer

Exception Handling using Exception.Data

My latest article on CodeProject covers the lesser known Exception.Data property

Ian Mercer

Javascript error reporting

Sending client-side errors back to a server for analysis

Ian Mercer

AntiVirus Software is the Worst Software!

When your anti-virus software starts stealing your personal data, it's time to remove it!

Ian Mercer

ASP.NET Custom Validation

How to solve a problem encountered with custom validation in ASP.NET

Ian Mercer

Optimization Advice

Some advice on software optimization

Ian Mercer

Linq's missing link

LinqKit came in handy back in 2009

Ian Mercer

Google Chart API

Ian Mercer

Cache optimized scanning of pairwise combinations of values

Using space-filling curves to optimize caching

Ian Mercer

Threading and User Interfaces

A rant about how few software programs get threading right

Ian Mercer

Take out the trash!

Why Windows shutdown takes so long

Ian Mercer

Dell upgrades - a pricey way to go

Ian Mercer

Programming mostly C#

Ian's advice on programming

Ian Mercer