ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released - The...
At PDC10 last November I did a talk on the "Unnamed Package of Web Love", showing ASP.NET MVC3 and Razor Syntax, the NuGet Package Manager, as well as SQL Compact Edition and a little "Entity...
View ArticleLink Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools
Lots of cool stuff was released yesterday that I mentioned in the post ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released - The Microsoft January Web Release in Context. The Web Platform...
View ArticleHanselminutes Podcast 248 - Executable Specifications with Gojko Adzic, Jonas...
This week Scott learns about Executable Specifications with Gojko Adzic, Jonas Bandi and Aslak Hellesoy. What's all this talk about BDD, Cucumber, Gerkin and SpecFlow? Where's the best place to start...
View ArticleHanseminutes Podcast 249 - On WebMatrix with Rob Conery
Microsoft WebMatrix was released on the 13th of January. Some folks have said its very existence is confusing. Do we need another IDE? What's Microsoft trying to pull here? Scott talks to...
View ArticleMixing Razor Views and WebForms Master Pages with ASP.NET MVC 3
I've spent the last few weeks travelling around presenting WebMatrix, Razor and ASP.NET MVC 3 to folks. Many people have existing WebForms apps or MVC apps with WebForms Views. The question has come up...
View ArticleHanseminutes Podcast 250 - Professional Technical Speaker Tips from Scott...
It's show 250! "Scott and Drew are shattered, having just finished presenting 8 solid hours of technical but upbeat content in The Netherlands. They're doing WebCamps and take a moment to talk about...
View ArticleHanselminutes Podcast 251 - HTML5 Basics with Mads Kristensen
Scott chats with Mads Kristensen about HTML5? What exactly is this thing? Is it evolutionary or revolutionary? Should you start working with HTML5 now, or should you wait for some unknown future?...
View ArticleThis Developer's Life 1.1.2 - Drive
In this episode of This Developer's Life Scott and Rob talk to 4 entrepreneurs about the risks they take, and what's happened as a result. Dave Neilsen, Tom Preston-Werner, and Nate and Niki Kohari....
View ArticleFun with Noun Pluralization libraries and the .NET Framework
There was interesting discussion about noun pluralization on a mailing list today. One of the fun demos I throw into some talks is the automatic pluralization (taking something singular and making it...
View ArticleReview: Living, working and using the Cisco Umi personal telepresence system....
The picture at right is of my Cisco Umi I have hooked up at my house in Portland, OR. My friend Vishal is in Seattle. Why is he holding a bag of chips? More on that later. I noticed recently that I've...
View ArticleHanselminutes Podcast 252 - ReactiveUI extensions to the Reactive Framework...
"Scott sits down with Paul Betts and talks about extending the Reactive Framework. We currently manage our UI events as they are pushed to us. How does programming - and asynchronous programming -...
View ArticleThis Developer's Life 1.1.3 - Competition
In this episode we talk to competitors who are also programmers. Or, programmers who also compete. Are coders pre-wired for this? Jon Skeet, David Fowler, Aaron Jensen and Danielle Banks share their...
View ArticleCreating a NuGet Package in 7 easy steps - Plus using NuGet to integrate...
UPDATE: Check out my follow up post where I remove the need for editing the Global.asax.cs and show up to Update and Publish a NuGet package. Last month I wrote a post called Integrating ASP.NET MVC 3...
View ArticleNew Interview Questions for Senior Software Engineers
I'm putting together some practice interview questions for a friend who lost his job. I thought it'd be useful to crowd-source some questions from you, Dear Reader. These questions should be more...
View ArticleUpdating and Publishing a NuGet Package - Plus making NuGet packages smarter...
I wrote a post a few days ago called "Creating a NuGet Package in 7 easy steps - Plus using NuGet to integrate ASP.NET MVC 3 into existing Web Forms applications." Long enough title? I think so. The...
View ArticleEnabling Dragging of an Image to Pin a Site to the Windows Taskbar in IE9
I blogged in September about a some features of IE9 that I really dug, specifically adding Jump Lists to your website and Pinning WebSites to the Taskbar. I made a few small markup changes and now you...
View ArticleHanselminutes Podcast 253 - Organizing your own Virtual Technical Conference...
Scott talks to Javier Lozano and Jon Galloway (and Eric Hexter in spirit) about MVCConf. Thousands of viewers logged in and watched hours of top technical content on ASP.NET MVC this last week. How...
View ArticleHanselminutes Podcast 254 - ASP.NET Web Forms - Reports of my Death of been...
Scott chats with Damian Edwards about new features coming in ASP.NET WebForms, new techniques, controls, model binding, HTML 5 and more. Download: MP3 Full Show NOTE: If you want to download our...
View ArticleHanselminutes Podcast 255 - The Opinionated Cloud - Learning about AppHarbor
Scott sits down with Rune from AppHarbor. AppHarbor has some strong opinions about how the cloud should work and how applications should be deployed. Is there room for another cloud offering? Is the...
View ArticleHanselminutes Podcast 256 - JavaScript and jQuery: Moving beyond Alert()
Scott talks to Elijah Manor and Dave Ward about how one can take their JavaScript knowledge to the next level. What are the major concepts I should study? Which plugins are the must-haves? What's...
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