07 Dec 2010

How-To: Remote Validation in ASP.NET MVC3

ASP.NET MVC3 has been a major boon to my productivity as a web developer since I started using it at the beginning of November – the new Razor view engine has been attracting most of the attention with this iteration of MVC, but one extremely sexy feature has...

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07 Dec 2010

Where Are My Windows Phone 7 Icons?

appbar.favs.addto.rest This is a quick post, but for anybody who isn’t using Expression Blend (which automatically puts all of the Windows Phone 7 icons for you in...

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06 Dec 2010

LA .NET User Group ASP.NET MVC3 Lecture Notes

Putting this online for the benefit of the .NET LA User Group – this content is meant to accompany my talk on ASP.NET MVC3:

ASP.NET MVC3 links:

04 Dec 2010

How to Make it Easy for New Developers to Adopt Your Open Source Project

James Gregory is one of my heroes in the .NET community – he’s the creator of Fluent NHibernate, my favorite new ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) for my ASP.NET MVC projects. James expressed some dismay earlier today when a newbie Fluent NHibernate developer posted a $100+ bounty for a...

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05 Nov 2010

Consuming REST in .NET

I gave a talk at Code Camp Los Angeles a couple of weekends ago on how to consume REST APIs in .NET – the emphasis was really on understanding RESTful principles and on the OAuth workflows + implementing them in Windows Phone 7.

It was meant to be a 100-200...

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26 Sep 2010

MVVM Light Toolkit Pitfalls on Windows Phone 7 and How to Avoid Them

mvvm-light I’ve been leaning heavily on Laurent Bugnion’s MVVM Light Toolkit framework in the course of learning Windows Phone 7[footnote:If you're interested in developing for...

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21 Sep 2010

MVVM Light Toolkit Example on Windows Phone 7: Twitter Search

I wrote this example in conjunction with the lightning talk I gave at SHDH #40 on MVVM for Noobs, and I thought that developers who are new to developing in Silverlight or for Windows Phone 7 might benefit from it.

One of the major issues I had in moving...

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18 Sep 2010

SuperHappyDevHouse Lightning Talk: MVVM for Noobs

I'm at Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus this weekend where we're hosting SuperHappyDevHouse #40 - I'm going to be giving a lightning talk on MVVM for Noobs in the next hour or so and I wanted to post my presentation online as I think some of you might find it...

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14 Sep 2010

Quick Interview about BizSpark at DEMO 2010

I'm attending DEMO 2010 this week up in (somewhat) sunny Santa Clara, and during the early parts of last night's social media lounge event some members of DEMO's social media team shot a quick interview with me regarding Microsoft's BizSpark program. If you're not familiar with BizSpark...

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02 Sep 2010

Powered by Microsoft

I alluded to a change in my employment circumstances in my previous blog entry, and now that I'm an official Microsoft employee as of Monday I feel extremely comfortable making this information public.

My role is Developer Evangelist for the BizSpark program; Microsoft recruited me for this position after...

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