Thursday, May 5, 2011

Developer Stand up Comedy - Coding 4 Fun

Developer Stand up Comedy - Coding 4 Fun

Developer Stand up Comedy - Coding 4 Fun

Posted: 05 May 2011 01:15 PM PDT

There aren't enough funny developer talks in my opinion. Lots of you folks are so funny in person and when I got to conferences or just have lunch we laugh and laugh. As with all niches or cliques, we're all part of a little club of inside jokes and shared stories. It's always weird to get lots of comments on my technical talks. Many are positive, but sometimes I'll get one like "your not funy!" or "stop joking and start coding." Well, I realize my brand of edutainment isn't for everyone. That said, this talk is happily content-free. If you hate my jokes, you may ignore it. ;) Many years ago I did some local open mics and stand up, although I've never really put together a tight hour of material. I'm...(read more)

Join the Open Source Un-Contest and Get a Free eBook from O’Reilly

Posted: 05 May 2011 05:36 AM PDT

A little while back I posted about the DEVELOPERS UN CONTEST ! Contribute a theme, module, or package for any Open Source .NET project – or an Open Source NuGet package and now you can get a free eBook (JanJune 2011) Just send me your email and a link to information about your contribution. Read More......(read more)

Calling Web Service Page Methods with jQuery

Posted: 05 May 2011 05:20 AM PDT

A "Web Service", according to Wikipedia, is any software that is meant to provide computer to computer communication but is typcally comveyed using HTTP. Just with the Microsoft Development stack there are lots of ways to expose application logic via HTTP. ASMX WCF CSHTML MVC ASHX (ASP.NET Handler) etc.. As we increase our client side [...] Read More......(read more)

Should I use HTML5 or Silverlight? One man's opinion.

Posted: 04 May 2011 01:25 PM PDT

I was in Belgium and The Netherlands this last week presenting and talking to folks in the community. After I presented on ASP.NET MVC 3, HTML5 and jQuery, one fellow came up after and said, "Should I use Silverlight or HTML5. I don't understand what Microsoft's strategy is or what to use in my app." Since I work for the Web Platform and Tools team (ASP.NET, IIS, etc) I spend a lot of time working, coding, and thinking about the web. However, I'm not an official strategist, or marketing guy.  But I do have an opinion; one that is mine and no one else's. That said, I don't think it's that hard and I'm surprised there's so much confusion about this (both outside and inside Microsoft.)  Companies...(read more)

How to get a source code enlistment set-up for Orchard

Posted: 04 May 2011 09:42 AM PDT

This screencast shows the basic set-up for an Orchard dev environment. Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:46 PM PDT

Three weeks ago we held our MIX 2011 conference in Las Vegas.  MIX is one of my favorite events of the year, and the conference always has a ton of great content and announcements.  All of the keynotes and breakout sessions from the event can be watched online for free here .  I'll be doing a few posts in the upcoming weeks that also cover some highlights from it. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update One of the announcements I made in my Day 1 keynote was the release of an ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update .  This update is a small, but very tasty, update that includes a bunch of really nice tooling improvements for ASP.NET MVC 3.  You can install it from the http://asp.net/mvc site (just click the installer). The ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools...(read more)

TechDays/DevDays Netherlands and Belgium:

Posted: 02 May 2011 02:28 PM PDT

Last week I was in Belgium and The Netherlands speaking at TechDays. A number of those videos are online at Channel 9 . It was a great time. Here's the talks I gave. Sorry there's three screenshots of my big head to follow. DevDays Keynote The first 10 minutes or so of this are in Dutch, but you can fast forward to my part if you like. I'm about 20 min right after Arie stops talking. I talk about what Microsoft has built this year, what we are doing around Open Source, and how I see things snapping (and how they snapped) together from VB3 until today. NuGet In Depth: Empowering Open Source on the .NET Platform In this talk I start from the absolute basics of NuGet, how to make and publish a package and I work up to my thoughts on...(read more)

Ajax Control Toolkit and Superexpert

Posted: 02 May 2011 11:08 AM PDT

Microsoft has asked my company, Superexpert Consulting , to take ownership of the development and maintenance of the Ajax Control Toolkit moving forward. In this blog entry, I discuss our strategy for improving the Ajax Control Toolkit. Why the Ajax Control Toolkit? The Ajax Control Toolkit is one of the most popular projects on CodePlex. In fact, some have argued that it is among the most successful open-source projects of all time. It consistently receives over 3,500 downloads a day (not weekends -- workdays). A mind-boggling number of developers use the Ajax Control Toolkit in their ASP.NET Web Forms applications. Why does the Ajax Control Toolkit continue to be such a popular project? The Ajax Control Toolkit fills a strong need in the ASP...(read more)

Single Package Version per Solution

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:51 AM PDT

Not too long ago, I posted a survey on my blog asking a set of questions meant to gather information that would help the NuGet team make a decision about a rather deep change. You can see the results of the survey here . If there's one question that got to the heart of the matter, it's this one. We're considering a feature that would only allow a single package version per solution. As you can see by the response to the question, that would fit what most people need just fine, though there are a small number of folks that might run into problems with this behavior. One variant of this idea would allow multiple package versions if the package doesn't contain any assemblies (for example, a JavaScript package like jQuery). Thanks again for filling...(read more)

3 Articles on JavaScript Performance

Posted: 02 May 2011 07:34 AM PDT

I stumbled upon a 3 article series on JavaScript Performance that the IE Team has published and thought I'd share it: IE + JavaScript Performance Recommendations – Part 1 IE + JavaScript Performance Recommendations – Part 2 IE + JavaScript Performance Recommendations – Part 3 Read More......(read more)

ContosoKarate WM – Site Registration

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:58 AM PDT

I started building ContosoKarate (WebMatrix) by creating a site using the default WebMatrix Default Site Template. The default template includes a collection of account related pages. After modifying the _SiteLayout.cshtml the Register.cshtml looked pretty good. So there are two things I need to do. Enable Captcha Make the formatting pretty. First, I modified the Login [...] Read More......(read more)

Weekly Links– 2010_16 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 07:29 AM PDT

Software Developer Links of the Week. David Strom – Recommended reading for nerds Windows Phone 7 Student App Contest A Smarter Way to Include JavaScripts and CSS to Reduce Page Load Times jQuery Events: Stop (Mis)Using Return False Enabling RSS Auto Discovery RouteDebugger 2.0 State Management and ways to handle Cache in Web Farm or [...] Read More......(read more)

Podcast- Dave Ward Encosia

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:52 AM PDT

Dave Ward runs what, for me, is one of the most usefull developer blogs on the Web. http://encosia.com/ Though Dave does both front end and back end web development, his UI and jQuery blogging has been especially interesting to me so I though "why not talk to Dave out loud!' Resources Dave's Blog Listen Subscribe [...] Read More......(read more)

Recovering the admin password in Orchard

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:33 PM PDT

These things happen, and it seems hopeless at first: you've locked yourself out of your own site and that's that. Well, not quite. If you still have access to the database there is a way out. Access may be through FTP and WebMatrix or Visual Studio if using SQL CE or through SQL Server Management Studio or whatever is your preferred way to access your database. In this tutorial I'll use WebMatrix over a local SqlCe database but other tools would work just as well with minor differences. Open the database and go to the Orchard_Users_UserPartRecord table. You should see something like this: As you can see, the passwords are stored hashed, and the password format is specified for each user. Possible values are Hashed (the default),...(read more)

Silverlight TV 71: Laurent Bugnion, Luigi Rosso, and Ward Bell Talk Silverlight 5 at MIX11

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:52 AM PDT

Silverlight TV 71: In this week's episode of SLTV, Laurent Bugion of IdentityMine, Luigi Rosso of Archetype, and Ward Bell of IdeaBlade join John Papa at MIX11 to answer questions about Silverlight 5 from the live viewers of Channel 9 Live. The questions...( read more )...(read more)

SQL Azure Migration Wizard v3.6.2

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 02:23 PM PDT

SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) is designed to help you migrate your SQL Server 2005/2008 databases to SQL Azure. SQLAzureMW will analyze your source database for compatibility issues and allow you to fully or partially migrate your database schema and data to SQL Azure.

Survey: How Do You Use the DomainService Wizard?

Posted: 05 May 2011 08:27 AM PDT

I need to ask a favor of all my regular readers out there (*crickets*). I often hear stories along the lines of "I use the DomainService Wizard to generate my DomainService. Then I make tiny changes to the generated code or metadata and may move it or Read More......(read more)

“Expression Blend for Silverlight Developers” (DevDays, Holland)

Posted: 05 May 2011 02:45 AM PDT

I did a fun talk on Expression Blend at the recent DevDays conference at the Hague in Holland. The basic idea of this talk was to (as much as possible in 75 minutes) take Expression Blend from scratch through to putting something together that involved...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–The Third Dimension

Posted: 05 May 2011 02:03 AM PDT

Note: these are early notes based on some initial experiments with the Silverlight 5 beta, apply a pinch of salt to what you read. I know next-to-nothing about 3D graphics which is a shame because it's a huge feature for Silverlight 5. Not being one to...( read more )...(read more)

Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 2 - Optimization

Posted: 04 May 2011 02:00 PM PDT

Don't miss... Free SilverlightShow Webinars Getting ready for Silverlight Exam 70-506 series ClassifiedCabinet: A Quick Start Pro Business Apps with SL4 book: Show more books This article is compatible with the latest version of Silverlight. Introduction...( read more )...(read more)
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