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    public static class ControllerHelper {

        // working with forms on MVC 3, I found a handful of instances where I wanted to support ajax form submits using the jQuery form plugin
        // but still wanted to keep the option of graceful degradation if javascript wasn't supported.
        // there might be a better approach to this, like having seperate Ajax and vanilla Post methods,
        // moving the logic that currently resides in the controller elsewhere. That would increase complexity a lot all at once.
        // Perhaps this kind of thing is the right path in the short term.
        public static ActionResult PartialIfAjax_ViewOtherwise(this Controller controller, string viewName, object model) {
            if (controller.Request.IsAjaxRequest()) {
                return controller.PartialView(viewName, model);

LukeWinikates

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace EntityExtensions {
    public class FakeDbSet<T> : System.Data.Entity.IDbSet<T> where T : class {
        private readonly List<T> list = new List<T>();

        public FakeDbSet() {

LukeWinikates

Markdown DSL for drills

I partice a few skills on a weekly basis - certain workouts, guitar drills, and Japanese langauge drills. The concerns are broadly similar, and it got me wondering if there is a way to generalize "practice routine creation" in a format that is serializable, sharable, and "playable" in a variaty of formats.

Examples:

Define an 'atom'