Ok. First a few facts. AWS has had a data center problem that has been ongoing for a couple of days. AWS has NOT been forthcoming with much useful information. AWS still has many data centers and cloud regions/etc up and live, able to keep their customers up and live. Many people have NOT built... Continue reading →

A few updates on the infrastructure project I’ve been putting together on at github/infrastructure. Javascript Enabling TDD First steps toward enabling TDD Javascript by adding QUnit. Now that the framework is available, I’ll have it added to the next template update. Globalization I will at some point have a blog entry put together and published... Continue reading →

A few quick notes about the updates on the Infrastructure Project. For one thing, I need to give it a good name. Any ideas? There are sample Zen Garden CSS and jQuery UI Theme files in the overall github repo, BUT, they still need integration into the actual template project. Again, if anyone is interested... Continue reading →

I did some searches for tutorials on Entity Framework (EF) + Code First. Most of the tutorials I found involved clicking on some design time view and right clicking to add columns, then clicking and right clicking to generate the code first SQL. It was neat, it was clean, and it was sort of fast.... Continue reading →

I decided, after poking around with Visual Studio 2010 Templates tonight, to publish a baseline infrastructure using ASP.NET MVC 3 w/ Razor, Entity Framework, and other elements using the .NET stack. So far I’ve only got some skeleton code put together for the infrastructure project and posted it to my github repo. I’d be open... Continue reading →