A friend and now coworker of mine, Richard Seroter (@rseroter & Blog) decided to do a comparo. I took the infrastructure based deployment, ala IaaS and he took the platform based deployment, ala PaaS. What we’ve done is taken a somewhat standard ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework, a SQL Server Database, a UX & UI... Continue reading →

A scenario came up recently that I needed to have Node.js capabilities installed on a server ASAP. That’s a pretty simple request, mostly. I checked into the requirements needed and checked out my options based on that. Tier3 popped up at the top of the list. First a quick instance setup: No real instructions, it’s... Continue reading →

Still not sure what to call the infrastructure project. One suggestion that came up was, “Visual Fluent NInfrastructure .NET Sharp”. It’s all trendy and wordy and can be turned into an unpronouncable acronym, VFN.NET#. Anyway, got ideas? Throw a comment on the post! 🙂 I got the multiple project completed and uploaded as template v1.1.... 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 →