Peter Mourfield

The Xamarin Developer Center has a lot of great content to help developers build apps using Xamarin iOS/Droid using many of the components users expect in modern mobile apps. One very common component is a Table View. In this article I am going to show how to extend the UITableViewSource…

Microsoft introduced Display Modes in ASP.NET MVC 4. Display Modes lets an application determine which views to render to the user. Scott Hanselman has a great post on how to make a switchable Desktop and Mobile site that illustrates how to use Display Modes to customize the views for particular…

Recently I was catching up on some reading and discovered Scott Hanselman’s Making a switchable Desktop and Mobile site with ASP.NET MVC 4 and jQuery Mobile post. His post reminded me that this functionality is also available for ASP.NET MVC 3 by using the MobileViewEngines NuGet package that Scott and…

Ever wonder what Knockout JS is? Since it’s going to be a part of the default ASP.NET template in VS2012 I figured that I should take a look. AND what better project to try something new in than Nerd Dinner. The Popular Dinners list in the Home/Index view is already…

I was interviewed recently by Scott Hanselman about the technology that I used in building the Trail To Eagle app. The podcast is available at http://www.hanselminutes.com/304/making-your-first-phonegap-application-with-peter-mourfield.

Since releasing the latest version of Nerd Dinner into the wild, we’ve had some reports of people having a variety of issues either getting or working with the databases in the source branch. Hopefully, this post will help clear up some of those issues. First, both of the MDF files…

Lately, I’ve been spending my spare time helping with Nerd Dinner open source project. The other day Scott Hanselman annouced the latest release of Nerd Dinner, one of the fixes he mention was as fixing a release-mode caching bug that was introduced a few years back. Also, Phil Haack published…

One of the new features of the recently updated Nerd Dinner project is the support for HTML5 Geolocation. There are two JavaScript libraries that I used to accomplish this. The first is yepnope.js (http://yepnopejs.com/). Yepnope.js is an asynchronous resource loader. This means that you can load scripts based on the…

Most .NET developers will need to store some application configuration information at some point. Most times developers choose to use the appSettings section in the configuration file for this purpose. Here’s an example of an appSettings configuration section: [code lang=”xml”] <appsettings> <!–Misc Settings–> <add key="StandardHandlingFee" value="4.95" /> <add key="PageSize" value="5"…

There is a lot of discussion going on in the web development world around how to best support mobile devices. Scott Hanselman’s ( @shanselman ) post ‘A Better ASP.NET MVC Mobile Device Capabilities ViewEngine’ is an interesting look on how to do view redirection using a combination of a custom…