What's your "go-to" conversation starter?

enkafan

The one I heard was saying "Fat Penguin" and when they say "Huh?" you say "Just looking for something to break the ice"

enkafan

The Visual Studio Team's weblog posted about this yesterday. The OP could have found it elsewhere, but I've found their blog to be worth adding to my RSS reader for stuff like this.

enkafan

Ah, the MVVM was the key to unlocking it in my mind I think.

I ended up with basically this as my model:

PostCommentsNewCommentModel {
    string Title;
    string Content;
    string PostDate;
    IEnumerable<Comment> Comments;
    NewCommentModel NewComment;
}

Then in my controll I had my [HttpGet] Index() that displays everything, and [HttpGet] Index (PostCommentsNewCommentModel model) that handles the adding of new comments.

I wasn't 100% the best way to do something like this though:

if (ModelState.IsValid) {
    if (_userRepository.IsEmailBlocked(model.NewComment.Email)) {
        ModelState.AddModelError("", "Sorry we can't take comments from you anymore");
        PopulateModel(model); // sets the post data and comments
        return View(model)
    }
}

That look about right for error handling?

enkafan

Weird how the second part of the video was apparently one minute prior to the first part according to the time

enkafan

I started playing 3 years ago. I grew up watching the game, but being from the south hockey wasn't very accessible. I now coach in a league for players who have never played in a game before. It is awesome. If anyone has any questions I'd love to help.

enkafan

Ah, I was wondering what was up with the Times New Roman applied via MS Paint

enkafan

I just assumed that my two day hangover was due to such an awesome 30th birthday party.

I was wrong

enkafan

Just ask yourself, what would Bobby Hill do?

enkafan

I went through this whole thread trying to find where you said you were female. I'm not sure how so many people on here missed that - part of the joys of being a dude is not having to worry about this stuff.

Anyways, I bet if you had made that known right away you'd have a thread going in a total different direction.

My advice is that you may be over thinking it. Girls do some fucked up shit to each other, but going out of their way because someone they used to know works at a starbucks is pretty fucked up.

If not, she may think she's hot shit right now but the fact of the matter is she's gonna be leaving school into a flooded market with a ton in student loans. Not the best situation for someone that seems to be a crazy c-word.

enkafan

I really, really enjoy Scarpetta' Tuscan Vodka Sauce. I will grab some penne and mix in some italian sausage. It's quite good.

enkafan

I'd be curious to see a graph of the use of the "hide" feature over the past few hours. It had to have absolutely skyrocketed

enkafan

Ah, a'doy.

For some reason I thought the teacher referred to this as Heisenberg's uncertainty theorem though. It has been 16 year and lord knows I got a C in that class anyways.

I was thinking that our experiment applied because we were changing the results by measuring it. But in this case they are looking at the particles which would be Heisenberg's uncertainty theorem.

enkafan

Don't worry, Cities in Motion has been announced that will surely build my hopes up only to crush them like Cities XL

enkafan

We covered this in high school chemistry. Dumbed it down to the "when you stick a cold thermometer in a warm glass of water you are changing the temperature" kind of way. Pretty much first week stuff at the same time we learned how to use the bunsen burners to boil water

enkafan

Yeah, I'm not too worried about DI. I've been using that for a couple of years now. It's weird, it seems like the "hard" part of MVC for most people has come easy for me, but some simple tasks I just can't get a good grasp on.

So here's my project as it stands. It kind of works, but I don't like it one bit. It's all dummy in memory data that I threw together, but it has the gist of what I'm doing

I've commented out the route that feels like it should work, but I can't master it.

I really appreciate this. It's been a while since I've felt this silly when learning something.

enkafan

Well, this is purely fictional right now. My real app has some specific implementation details related to my company I'd rather not get into.

I will try and throw something together this weekend that matches up with what I'm trying to accomplish

enkafan

Yeah, that also worked until I started worrying about validation.

When I went with a SetModelError, saying for example the e-mail address wasnt a valid address or maybe the comment looked spammy, I started getting into weird issues because the "model" I was working with was not the ultimate model being displayed

enkafan

Sorry, I may be using the wrong terminology.

I've been calling PartialActions the things that MVC 2 renders with Html.RenderAction or Html.Action. Instead of using the parent view's model, they execute a separate controller action. That seems to be the way to go for the comment and it'd have a nice separation of concerns I'd think. And it worked too, until I tried to redirect from the damn thing. It seems like it's main use is for things like a side bar shopping cart or "recent comments" - things on a page that aren't necessarily related to the view.

enkafan

That's what I started out with, actually.

But I'm struggling with the main portion of the View being tied to the Post model, and then the sub portion using a Comment model. Setting up the form and all that to post to the comments controller was a piece of cake, but it knows nothing about the comment model.

That's why I went to the PartialAction, but it barked about the RedirectToAction back to the Post.

PartialAction really feels like the right way to go, but maybe I'm missing something on its intended use. My other thought was to create a PostNewCommentModel or some crap like that to handle the whole thing. That would probably work out, but it still smells to me

enkafan

Totally unrelated, but this reminds me of a story.

I was looking at her families computer because it was running kind of slow when I noticed a folder with my name on it. Kind of freaked me out. I opened it up only to find a folder full of pictures. Now, this was pre picture messages and all that so I knew I hadn't been sending her stuff, and neither one of us had a digital camera either so I had no clue what they could possibly be.

Curiosity got the better of me and I opened one up. It was full of MS Paint doodles that she would draw while talking to me on the phone. They all had hearts and "I love (my name)" written all over them.

Things turned out better than expected.

enkafan

Once fooled around with some girl because of some misplaced racism. I was out of town hanging out with some girls I had met the night before and the girl I was chasing after was talking with some guy that was really putting some serious effort into getting this girl to like him. He seemed like a nice enough guy, he was asking her out on a date and probably had better intentions than I did so I decided not to be a jerk and not cock block him.

It warrants mentioning that he's Serbian.

Anyways, I tell the girls that I'm gonna take off. Soon I start getting text messages from her friends saying I need to get back because she's upset I left. Well, ok then. Once I get there her friend looks me right in the eye and says "No way are we gonna let her date some GOD DAMN MUSLIM, she should date someone from around here." Now keep in mind I lived 1000 miles away, and this dude lived in the same city.

But this girl was really pretty attractive so I didn't have the heart to tell them that Serbians are generally not only christian, but they tried to ethnically cleanse the Muslims. I mean, this girls should LOVE this guy. But logic was not to be used this night. With him out of the picture thanks to ignorance and racism, negotiations went quickly.

Later, I ended up having to break off communication with the girl when she told me she didn't watch "House Hunters" anymore because they push a gay agenda.

enkafan

Huh, and here I thought it sounded like a contradiction but you repeating it has sealed the debate on that one.

enkafan

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