If you haven’t seen Marakana Videos I would suggest checking them out. Their site is at http://marakana.com/ where there are forums, more videos, and other great content. Their site focuses on Open Source Training. There are topics ranging from the above Node.js, HTML 5, Apacha Cassandra, and many more on the site. Continue reading →

Just two quick links I found interesting lately. First is CQRS on Windows Azure. This is a great write up about how to setup a CQRS Architecture using Windows Azure. The article covers topics ranging from idempotency to command ordering, overall, good stuff. The second link is the Timeglider for jQuery Plugin. This is just... 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 →

I’ve been working through a project recently that I ended up creating an interesting abstraction of an assembly/classes between multiple web services projects. I wrote about it initially in Aggregated Web Services Pt I. In this blog entry is going to cover a few things, based on a full end-to-end implementation of a project from... Continue reading →

Here’s the second dose of jQuery bits, with more to come in the near future. I’ve got a few primary things I am going to point out with today’s code. With jQuery getting a particular element, type of element, or the whole lot of a particular element is very easy. Single line of code easy.... Continue reading →