Archive for March, 2009

Setting up my Virtual Development Workstation

26, Mar 2009

As some of you may know, I’ve been doing all my development 100% on a MacBook Pro, running VMware Fusion, running Windows Server 2008.  Recently my install of visual studio started acting up (not due to the laptop or VMware) but because of a bad install. 
Being the bad developer, I didn’t snapshot my image,  [...]

Scott Hanselman at Mix09 talks about MVC 1.0 and NerdDinner.com

23, Mar 2009

Here is a great presentation by Scott Hanselman demonstrating MVC 1.0 and how he created NerdDinner.com with it.  He talks about the nuts and bolts of MVC, but also talk a bit about how MVC lends itself to support different roles within an engineering organization.  Service developers only need to worry about the Service Layer [...]

How to migrate to a new domain without breaking your Google search results

21, Mar 2009

Last week I moved my domain from http://www.wadolabs.com/blog to http://blog.wadolabs.com.  It was a simple migration as far as my application and data goes. But what about all the links and referring sites?  Plus the indexes that Google already had on my site.  I didn’t want all my pages to all of the sudden disappear and [...]

Azure – Geolocation and Non .NET Support

18, Mar 2009

Azure updated the beta offering to include several new exciting new features.  Developers can now host their data in two geographically seperate data center, which enhances performance and avaliability.  Also, they are adding the ability to run non-.NET code on the Azure Platform via FastCGI.  For example developers can run PHP or Ruby on the [...]

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released

18, Mar 2009

After a long wait, Microsoft has finally released ASP.NET MVC 1.0.  I’ve been following the progress of the product on ScottGu’s blog since day one.  From the looks of things, its seems pretty solid.  I’ll play with the final release later tonight and post my overall impressions.  I’m curious how people intend to use MVC [...]

Silverlight 3 Beta

18, Mar 2009

Silverlight 3 beta and Expression Blend 3 announced today at Mix09.  This is very exciting. Tons of new enhancements plus performance upgrades with graphics acceleration.  The one feature I’m really interested in, is the out of browser support.  This mean .NET running on a Mac!!  (not like mono, the real way).
Get the lastest installers here:
http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx

Mix09 Live Coverage

18, Mar 2009

Unable to attend Mix09? Watch live coverage here http://live.visitmix.com/

WordPress

15, Mar 2009

After researching and testing several blog engines, I made the move back to using WordPress, the original blogging engine I used from the very beginning. Nothing compares to WordPress and all the out of the box features it comes with. Don’t get me wrong, I think Blogengine.net is an excellent piece of software, [...]

WCF Exception Handling with IErrorHandler

2, Mar 2009

As a software architect I tend to work on a lot of frameworks and low level code that I hand off to developers.  My main goal when design a framework is to make the usability as simple as possible.  I try to isolate my developers away from boilerplate code so they can spend more time [...]


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