Google Drive for iOS

Even with its latest update, Google Drive for iOS is still missing some essential features:
- I appreciate it took this long even to get one-at-a-time uploads, but it's really not a usable feature until you can select more than one at a time.
- You can share but you can't unshare? Seems like an oversight to me.
- There's still no "gallery" view of image thumbnails for folders containing images/photos.
- There is no apparent way to sort a folder by file size, date modified, etc.

Some of these features may actually be there, but the fact I can't find them still constitutes a need for improvement.

I'm optimistic Google will address these drawbacks. They always do.

Plugging the Holes in Linq-to-Entities

If you can do it in SQL, you should be able to do it with Linq-to-Entities, right? Trouble is, not everything in a Linq expression is directly translatable into SQL by Entity Framework. Well, not without some help...

• EntityFunctions
• SqlFunctions
• Custom functions

Between the above techniques (especially the last one), you should be able to get entity to run just about anything.

Custom Telerik MVC Grid Ajax Binding

Here's a code block demonstrating the manual sort/filter/paging of an ajax-bound Telerik MVC Grid request--it's handy for hook-ins of various flavors.

public ActionResult CustomBindingResult(IEnumerable items)
{
    int page = int.Parse(Request["page"]);
    int size = int.Parse(Request["size"]);
    string orderBy = Request["orderBy"];
    string groupBy = Request["groupBy"];
    string filter = Request["filter"];

    var list = items.ToList();
    var filtered = (IEnumerable)list.AsQueryable().ToGridModel(1, int.MaxValue, null, null, filter).Data;
    var results = (IEnumerable)filtered.AsQueryable().ToGridModel(page, size, orderBy, groupBy, null).Data;
    var data = results.Select(result => Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(TDestination), result));
    var model = new GridModel { Data = data, Total = filtered.Count() };
    return View(model);
}

Will need the Telerik.Web.Mvc.Extensions namespace.

Storing State in the Url Hash

It can be done. We have the technology.

function settingsToStorage(settings) {
    var s = [];
    $.each(settings, function (key, value) {
        s.push(key + "=" + encodeURIComponent(value));
    })
    return s.join("&");
}

function settingsFromStorage(storage) {
    var settings = {};
    storage.replace(/[#&]+([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/gi, function (m, key, value) { settings[key] = decodeURIComponent(value); });
    return settings;
}

HTTP Error 403.14 in IIS 7.5

I get this error the first time I try to set up IIS for local development on a new 64-bit Windows install.
Turns out, ASP.NET 4 isn't yet properly registered with IIS. To do so, run the following from an administrator-level command prompt:

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -ir

Do the same for a 32-bit Windows install except with s/Framework64/Framework/.

NTFS Symbolic Link

Some dude at work was all, "Move your application data to this other drive."
And I was all, but I don't want to break all my relative paths.

BOOM!

Symlinks for Windows. Problem solved.

ASP.NET MVC: Compiling Views

I'm in yer project, compilin' yer views.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/383192/compile-views-in-asp-net-mvc

Add <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews> to the <PropertyGroup> element.