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 →

…and with this entry, I’ve skipped to the last section of the exam topics related to ASP.NET MVC 2. Reading and studying the old viewstate based ASP.NET material was a bit rough, which I’ll be writing about in an upcoming entry. For now, back to focusing on the test at hand. The MVC Framework is... Continue reading →

I’m going to be taking the Web Application Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 in the very near future. Since I’m going to be scribbling a few notes and studying up, it seemed like I’d publish my studies. With that, here is round 1. My intent is to study each focus area and make a... Continue reading →