A couple years ago, I had the pleasure to work with one of the best teams I have ever and probably will ever get to work with again. There was a certain amount of magic we had over the span of a few months that I will probably be chasing

Back in the 90s when I started my development career, the first language I learned was Javascript. It is a deeply and perfectly flawed language. We created huge DHTML messes with it. And I moved on to server side development and got lost in .NET for a while. It all

If you were ever curious where I get the music for most of my videos, I tend to start with The Kleptones and end with Mash-Up Your Bootz. The Kleptones always have great tunes, and most people on the internet have probably already heard them. Mash-Up Your Bootz on the

On my current project, we needed a way to check a user set preference before taking action on behalf of the user. To be specific, we wanted to check if the user prefers for us to post an open graph action to facebook when they favorite a meme on our

So I have been working on a node.js project recently, that I was hosting on Heroku. Sadly, Heroku doesn't allow socket.io based node apps to use true websockets. So I asked my good friend Adron who was the best Heroku-like node host out there that did

Over the weekend I started building my first real node.js application. I had watched the Hello Node series from TekPub, read the LeanPub books and attended NodePDX this year. I was ready to get down in the weeds and start writing a real application. I also have been wanting

At Cheezburger, we make use of require.js for most of our client side javascript. Recently I had to implement some features that needed to pull lots of 3rd party scripts that were not AMD compliant. The documentation of course told me to put script tags directly in the head

I have recently completed my first iOS application on behalf of Furnishly, the local furniture exchange. All the release bugs have been worked out and the app is available on the app store. Yesterday, I started looking into how to transfer all the assets over to the owner of Furnishly

I ran into an issue this week where I was attempting to load data from a web service asynchronously using System.Threading.Tasks on MonoTouch. I was able to fire the task off but kept getting an error trying to update UI elements when callback was fired. After a little

My current team works with a lot of data. We represent that data with explicit types. For example if a string represents a Name we create an explicit type called Name like so: public struct Name { private readonly string _string; public Name(string name){ _string = name; } public override string ToString(

TLDR: Add "$env:home = resolve-path ~" to your PowerShell profile. I recently updated my work Virtual Machine to the latest release of msysgit 1.7.9 to resolve some issues I was having with global settings not being obeyed. After the installation I noticed that I was no longer

Overview If I told you that you can build node.js applications in Windows Azure would you believe me? Come to this session and I’ll show you how. You’ll see how take those existing node apps and easily deploy them to Windows Azure from any platform. You’ll

The South Sound .NET Users group is proud to present Glenn Block on Thursday March tth at 7:00PM at the Olympia Center in the heart of downtown Olympia, WA. If I told you that you can build node.js applications in Windows Azure would you believe me? Come to

Can you spot the bug in this flags enumeration? [Flags]     public enum ItemCoreChangeType     {         ViewStyleChanged = 1,         VaryByStructureChanged = 2,         LayersChanged = 4,         LayerContentsChanged = 8,         PropertiesChanged = 16,         ErrorsChanged = 32,         ChangeHistoryCleared = 64,         EditableCommentChanged = 128,         NeedsValidation = 256,         AffectsPropertyChangeHistory = 512,         AffectsLayerChangeHistory = 1024,         PushFormatters =

The South Sound .NET Users group is proud to present James Thigpen on Thursday Feburary 9th at 7:00PM at the Olympia Center in the heart of downtown Olympia, WA. There is a lot of talk in an abstract sense about how agile software practices work. James is going to

Today, I started spiking on displaying maps in iOS using MonoTouch. I wanted to discover the minimum amount of code needed to get the users current location via the iOS GPS services and then display that location on the a map. To get the devices current location you need an

I have been flirting with the idea of getting into mobile development in my spare time. I have went so far as to offer myself out as a developer to startups in Chicago to develop simple iOS applications in exchange for tool licenses. I am a firm believer in the

Overview During this presentation I will provide an overview of what is needed to get started using Visual Studio 2010 with the AWS Toolkit & SDK. We'll also cover the basic design ideas behind the do's and don'ts of cloud architecture and development. There

I have been working on a small sample application called SignMeUp. My intention is to practice concepts I am learning while reading Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests. I am using the awesome NancyFx micro-framework my web delivery mechanism and Razor as my view engine. To start I have

I am interested in getting more into iOS development. I have written some prototypes with XCode and MonoTouch. I really like MonoTouch and would really like my own license, so I can create some personal applications and play in the space. But sadly am unable to afford it at the

While I was attending the Software Craftsmanship North America conference this year, Ian Davis post a video of himself performing the Gilded Rose Kata. I really enjoyed watching it and wanted to take a stab at it myself. I had a couple hours to kill sitting at O'Hair

When you first get involved with agile development, you quickly hear about the SOLID principals and design patterns. They are a bit much to bite off at first. Through the Ruby community I have discovered a simpler more fundamental set of guidance for beginners that appear to be fundamentals for

NOTE: I am not an Entity Framework expert nor do I claim to be. I am a user of ORMs in the general developer space and this exercise is an attempt to map my workflow and knowledge to EF and it's associated tools. Here there be dragons. Introduction

The South Sound .NET Users Group is proud to present Adron Hall on Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK, Building for the Cloud this coming January 12th at 7:00PM at the Olympia Center, 222 Columbia NW in downtown Olympia. Adron is a personal friend and brilliant developer who I

Most .NET developers have some familiarity with NUnit, but often they learn to use certain basic techniques and never go beyond them. In this talk I'll present a some ideas you may want to try, including: parameterized tests and fixtures, generic tests, theories, the use of the TestContext