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Recently I sat down as a guest with Richard and Carl on .Net Rocks and recorded a show on my experiences on migrating from XAML to HTML . Chatting w/ Richard and Carl is always great. In this episode we tried to focus on my experiences on moving from XAML to Html but when you have 3 guys w/ A.D.D. staying...
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Last night I was able to give my ‘Lap around MEF’ talk to the Charlotte Enterprise Developer’s Guid . I think the session went well, the demo’s worked (which is great since there was a large bit of code creation during the talk) and the audience asked some great questions. I thought I would...
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Now that we’ve entered August, we’re just three short weeks away from St. Louis Day of .NET (taking place August 20-21). Last year I gave two talks ( Rhino Mocks and beginner’s guide to unit testing). This year I’ve been lucky enough to selected to be speaking again on two topics...
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Today at the Raleigh VS Southern Road Show which was put on by Brian Hitney and Glenn Gordon I had a chance to do a 20 minute lightning talk on MEF. Because I only had 20 minutes, my talk focused on explaining the ‘what and the why’ along with providing 2 (had 3 but only got through 2 of them)...
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After a successful first Chicago Code Camp last year, we're back to announce the second edition of this unique technical event. The Chicago Code Camp 2 will happen on May 1 st . In this event we are addressing one obvious and recurring feedback: Make it closer to the city . We're thrilled to...
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I haven't mentioned our meetings here in a while but our group has been going strong and enthusiastic all this time. Tomorrow, March 10 th our topic will be build scripts for .Net projects using Rake and Albacore. I've been using Rake and a little bit of Albacore in my own projects and I'm...
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One of the goals of the devlicio.us community is to bring you some of the best developers and content in the developer community. Over the past few months Devlicious has added a few new people to it's growing blogging community. If you haven't noticed already, we've added another, Rob Reynolds...
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Today it was announced that Resharper 5.0 will soon be introduced as part of the public EAP (Early Access Program) . As one on JetBrains .NET Academy Experts I’ve had access to Resharper 5.0 for a few weeks. While in the coming weeks and months you’ll hear quite a bit from developers who...
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In this month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting we will be taking a look at Apache CouchDB . I quote from the official site: Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bi-directional...
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Later this month I'll be attending the Mozilla Add-Ons Meetup in Chicago. I'm continually impressed with the extensibility of Mozilla applications and the amazing things people are doing with it. I'm interested in both the extensibility model and in writing a few custom extensions myself...
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Not too long ago Iowan developers had to travel to other states to get to a code camp. Now, a few short years later, Iowa, on November 7th, is having it's fourth Iowa Code Camp in Des Moines. I'm writing today to officially announce that we are now accepting speaker submissions for the event...
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It was my turn to be interviewed by Dave and Larry for The Thirsty Developer podcast. We talked a lot about all things JavaScript, its status, how people learn it (or avoid it), etc. I hope it's an entertaining interview You can download the interview from the podcast page
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It is my pleasure to announce a new voice to the Devlicio.us community, Krzysztof Koźmic . Krzysztof, also called Xtoff, has been putting out great content on his personal blog for some time. He is a committer on the popular open source Castle Project and is my DynamicProxy yoda having put out what I...
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Hey, hey, hey dear Devlicio.us readers. Today we are adding another valuable member to our roster and we are very happy about it. Join me and welcome Scott Seely to our group. I've known Scott for only about one year and he hasn't stopped surprising me with the breadth and depth of the things...
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Here are two user group events that are happening soon and that I'm directly involved. July 8 th , Chicago ALT.NET 0-60 With Fluent NHibernate See the full description of the session over at the Chicago ALT.NET home page. We will have Hudson Akridge tell us all about Fluent NHibernate , a project...