Debugging in Release mode Fail

I was trying to debug into a Controller Action in MVC to inspect some local variables, when I kept getting this strange warning in Visual Studio:

Cannot obtain value of local or argument '<this>' as it is not available at this instruction pointer, possibly because it has been optimized away

After much gnashing of teeth, I finally realized that I was running in Release and not Debug mode.  Doh!

Paling around with jquery templates

For the past couple of days, I've been playing around with jQuery templates which is currently in 1.4.6Beta1 and will officially be part of jQuery 1.5 road map.  Simply put, jQuery templates provides a mechanism to build powerful templates on the client that can be rendered with JSON data.

Going down the .NET Dependency Rabbit Hole

After playing with Ruby on Rails earlier this month and becoming truly enamored with it's ease of use, succinct style and dynamic nature I was dreading going back to .NET development.  I thought my saving grace might be working with ASP.NET MVC which I have a growing respect for, although somewhat tempered after playing around with RoR.  That being said, I've spent the better part of two-full days trying to reconcile dependency issues with several OSS projects I'm using and unfortunately NuGet didn't solve my problem, but got in the way in some respects.