When preparing for my presentation at NTK [http://www.ntk.si], the largest IT conference in Slovenia, titledCloud Patterns: How to write applications for the cloud, I explored different architectural patterns that have to do with reliability of our cloud applications. One of the most interesting patterns, in my opinion,…
Today's Visual Studio Connect() event brought a huge amount of announcements. From open sourcing .NET, delivering an officially supported runtime to Linux & Mac OS X [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening-up-visual-studio-and-net-to-every-developer-any-application-net-server-core-open-source-and-cross-platform-visual-studio-community-2013-and-preview-of-visual-studio-2015-and-net-2015.aspx] , [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening-up-visual-studio-an…
Microsoft hosted a developer event in Slovenia, called TechDays [http://www.techdays.si]and have invited me to present some of the new features of ASP.NET vNext and MVC 6. I wanted to post the slides online. They are a combination of slides from Scott Hanselman [http://hanselman.com/…
I am preparing for a talk I am about to give very soon (more to follow), and I wanted to demo some of the new features of ASP.NET MVC 6 on a Mac. It took reading instructions on multiple sites to get this to work, so I wanted to…
A lot of developers use ASP.NET MVC [http://www.asp.net/mvc/]. But interestingly enough, the pattern behind it, is often a mystery. Why is it called MVC? What does it actually solve? And how does it relate to patterns like MVVM, etc. Let's explore. A pattern is a…
I was sitting in a restaurant, waiting for my dinner to arrive - the meat tortellini in a cheese cream sauce, in case you're wondering - when I saw a tweet by a Boston journalist I follow, Walter Frick. > this data from an accelerator claims no correlation between IQ and…
> Doing content marketing right, means writing a couple assignments per week, and a thesis or two per month. And you get graded constantly by your users. The idea of Inbound Marketing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbound_marketing] is not that new, people have been doing it with Content Marketing…
I always had a problem with being distracted. Tools like Twitter [http://twitter.com/twitter], Facebook [http://facebook.com], Skype [http://skype.com], Messages, even Spotify [http://www.spotify.com/], have been, honestly, killing my productivity. Back in the days, when I focused the majority of my time at development,…