Did I get enough of the acronyms and key words in the header? It looks like soup! :O This is a somewhat messy project to build a prototype layer around SQL Server. The reason for this, shockingly, is to allow for a SQL Server to be used by frameworks and systems that normally don’t or... Continue reading →

Today kicked off with an early morning and a great workshop with Glenn Block (@gblock). The team he is working with has some great things coming for HTTP + REST + WCF that will really alleviate a lot of problems with WCF. In addition to that I’d bet that it will give Microsoft a chance... Continue reading →

Of all the cloud providers out there, AppHarbor easily provides the smoothest deployment experience for .NET available today. I did this in one shot, including a few mistypes, and still deployed an ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application to AppHarbor in 3 minutes and 50 seconds. Continue reading →

First a few tidbits on the latest SDKs. For the latest Windows Azure SDK go check out the Microsoft MSDN Site. For the latest for AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK check out the AWS .NET Site. These two SDKs are great for customers who want to build on the bare bones X platform. Now whatever... Continue reading →

I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit. It had been a really long time since I listed the current tools, SDKs, and frameworks that I’ve been using. Thus here’s my entourage of software that I use on a regular basis that is installed on my primary development machines. Continue reading →