Jef Claes

On software and life

02 Sep 2012

Supporting the OPTIONS verb in ASP.NET Web API

[ASP.NET Web API](http://www.asp.net/web-api) controllers support only four HTTP verbs by convention: GET, PUT, POST and...
22 Aug 2012

Is serialization really that expensive?

While wading through an exotic codebase, I stumbled upon a static class named Convert. This class contained somewhere a...
19 Aug 2012

My learning resources distilled

I have picked up a few new tools this summer ([MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/), [NancyFx](http://nancyfx.org/) and [We...
30 Jul 2012

Finito

With this last post, our trip to Italy has come to an end. We have spent these last few days practicing several indispen...
27 Jul 2012

Milano

After [Venice on Wednesday](http://www.jefclaes.be/2012/07/the-floating-city.html), we decided to stay in Torbole for a ...
26 Jul 2012

The Floating City

Yesterday we cruised along the eastern coastline of [Lake Garda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Garda). Plan A was to...
24 Jul 2012

Ferrari red. Lamborghini yellow.

After 14 hours and 34 minutes in the car, driving 1148km, over the German autobahn, swerving Austrian roads, and the Ita...
15 Jul 2012

Should I unit- or integration test my ASP.NET Web API services?

Over the last two weeks, preparing for a talk, I have been doing some research on [ASP.NET Web API](http://www.asp.net/w...
08 Jul 2012

HtmlHelper to generate a top-level menu for areas

Last week, we had to set up a new ASP.NET MVC web application, using a somewhat customized [Twitter Bootstrap](http://tw...
01 Jul 2012

On crime and document stores

Having worked with several storage paradigms over these last few months - from flatfiles, to  NoSQL, to the big enterpri...