Exploration of Thought

This Saturday, Twin Cities Code Camp 7! I'll be presenting on the awesome ASP.NET MVC and Spark View Engine implementation. Come on down, its free! Don't forget to register on the Code Camp website. :) See you there.   * The text below was shamelessly stolen from Chris G Williams Blog. I couldnt say it…

Below is a link to download the Testing With Mocks lightning round talk that I gave at the Heartland Developers Conference this last week. In order to get the samples to run you will need to have TypeMock Isolator installed. If you do not own a license you can download an evaluation for free here.…

As promised, below you can download the presentation as well as code for the Testing with Mocks talk I gave this last Tuesday at the Twin Cities Developers Guild. Please note, in order to get the sample to build you will need to install TypeMock. They have evaluation you can download here. Download: TestingWithMocks_TCDG_20091013.zip (~15MB)…

Below you can download a zip file which contains the presentation as well as the code used in my “ASP.NET MVC w/ Spark View Engine” talk today at the Heartland Developers Conference. You should be able to download, unzip, open the solution and hit F5 and run. You will _not_ need to install ASP.NET MVC…

Below you can download a zip file which contains the presentation as well as the code used in my “ASP.NET MVC w/ Spark View Engine” talk today at the Heartland Developers Conference. You should be able to download, unzip, open the solution and hit F5 and run. You will _not_ need to install ASP.NET MVC…

For anyone who attended this years MDC 2009 and came to my presentation “ASP.NET MVC w/ Spark View Engine” knows that we had some _major_ technical difficulties. We could not get the projector to present via my laptop. To make up for this I have decided to create a screen recording of the presentation. The…

For anyone who attended this years MDC 2009 and came to my presentation “ASP.NET MVC w/ Spark View Engine” knows that we had some _major_ technical difficulties. We could not get the projector to present via my laptop. To make up for this I have decided to create a screen recording of the presentation. The…

I'm very happy to annouce that I'm now part of the ASP Insiders. I look forward to participating in the group and providing valuable feedback to the product teams. I'm honored to be surrounded with such talented individutals and thought leaders! Here's to an exciting future, cheers!  

I normally do not blog bile by reposting another sites news, but this news is rather importnat in regards to TDD with Isolator. I use Rhino Mocks 80% of the time for mocking, but that last 20% is Isolator. Why 20% - this is the real tough stuff to test. SharePoint, Silverlight, Tightly Coupled Legacy…

Awhile back Paul Graham posted an artcile that every Manager, Venture Capitalist and Angel Investor should read. It's located here: http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html Having personally been a developer, manager and entrepenuer who has dealt with development managers, angel investors and private venture capitalists I can tell you, this post hits it out of the park. The makers…

If you read this blog or know me personally you know that I've been involved in a lot of Android development lately. Some fellow .NET co-workers have questioned me quite heavily on the "WHY" of this development exercise/etc. I'm a .NET guy, right? So ... the question is ... Why am I developing Android Applications?…

I've been working on Anroid projects A LOT this last month. I've come to love the android application framework and I've found it rather easy to work with. However, I've found that the docs do need a lot of work. Examples are just that, simple examples. My next task was to get Android to integrate…