I was just walking through all the sample web apps in the Spark project converting them from ${H(expr)} and ${expr} to ${expr} and !{expr}. One thing I hate to admit is how frequently I had demo data like product names going out without html encoding - so for me that’s kind of case in point on that particular feature. The other thing I noticed was when I was working updating a _NavItem.spark partial file in ...

Happy new year! A new build for Spark has been posted on the download page that includes a SparkVsIntegration.msi file in the root of the zip. That file will deploy needed resources to Program Files\Spark and add registry entries. Newer versions of the msi will upgrade these without needing to uninstall. To reverse any changes you may uninstall “Spark View Engine” from Control Panel at any time. There are a few other changes, see release ...

There are many dumb interview questions. Programming, itself, has a wide range of extra potential for stupidity. But the question that irks me the most is universal to just about every field: What is your greatest weakness? Well, my greatest weakness is a complete and utter intolerance for inane questions. You see, this stupid question is designed to be rightly answered by someone who has carefully crafted an answer that turn some apparent weakness into ...