Welcome to DigitallyCreated! This website is where I host my blog, publish some of the software applications that I have written and display my résumé. I wrote this website entirely from the ground up rather than using an off the shelf CMS/blog software product mainly as a demonstration of my technical skills and as a learning exercise.
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Performing Date & Time Arithmetic Queries using Entity Framework v1
June 07, 2010 3:21 PM
If one is writing legacy code in .NET 3.5 SP1’s Entity Framework v1 (yes, your brand new code has now been put into the legacy category by .NET 4 :( ), one will find a severe lack of any date & time arithmetic ability. If you look at LINQ to Entities, you will see no date & time arithmetic methods (read more)
This Blog is Blinding You Less
May 09, 2010 3:48 AM
I’m a software developer (a professional one now! I graduated in April), not a designer, so when I’d finished designing the site I was surprised at how good it did look. However, it came as little surprise that apparently the site was causing Rob Conery’s cones to beat his rods, and therefore it should be burned alive. When receiving such (read more)
Deep Inside ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Metadata and Validation
April 14, 2010 5:33 PM
One of the big ticket features of ASP.NET MVC 2 is its ability to perform model validation at the model binding stage in the controller. It also has the ability to store metadata about your model itself (such as what properties are required ones, etc) and therefore can be more intelligent when it automatically renders an HTML interface for your (read more)
DigitallyCreated Utilities v1.0.0 Released
March 24, 2010 2:43 PM
After a hell of a lot of work, I am happy to announce that the 1.0.0 version of DigitallyCreated Utilities has been released! DigitallyCreated Utilities is a collection of many neat reusable utilities for lots of different .NET technologies that I’ve developed over time and personally use on this website, as well as on others I have a hand in (read more)
C# Using Blocks can Swallow Exceptions
March 05, 2010 3:37 AM
While working with WCF for my part time job, I came across this page on MSDN that condemned the C# using block as unsafe to use when working with a WCF client. The problem is that the using block can silently swallow exceptions without you even knowing. To prove this, here’s a small sample: (read more)
Twitter Updates
Daniel loves the DC Universe Online opening intro movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNXe8Mw4u1A
@dwainbunker Hahaha, what did you do, cheese him or something? #SC2
8 hours ago in reply to dwainbunker
Double StarCraft 2, OMG. Yes, I got two CDs and two CD Keys in the one retail box. Revenge for rip off digital pricing! (http://is.gd/dNw8X)
Daniel actually had to go _out_ to buy StarCraft 2. How barbaric...
a bit like Activision's digital download pricing. FYI, you're doing it wrong.
The StarCraft 2 Digital Download is out and priced... at AU$90!? Yeah, get out Activision, thanks for wasting my time. I'm going to JBHifi.
It's official and confirmed. Keyboard and mouse kick the crap out of console controllers: http://is.gd/dGzdx
Daniel loves this video with mock Steve Jobs telling his users how exactly they should deal with their broken iPhone 4s (http://is.gd/dEIcp). Gold!