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’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 →

This is the beginning of a series of blog posts I’m putting together on building out a website on Amazon’s Web Services. This is a quick start on where to find the .NET SDK, what templates are installed in Visual Studio 2010, and what you get when starting a new Web Application Project with the... Continue reading →

Part 1, Part 2. Now it is time finally for the random name generation. I’ve gotten everything into place, so it’s just a matter of grabbing the names and randomizing among them. Just as a check, after Part 2 was finished I had a total of 98,572 rows of data, or simply 98,572 names. Many... Continue reading →

Part 2, Part 3. This is going to be a multi-part series on building a straight forward database driven name generator. I’ve tried the random name generator thing and it generally isn’t so great. I’d tried in the past this idea with the database table of census names and it works great. So this is... Continue reading →