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  • Great Free Course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps With EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery

    Great Free Course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps With EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery

    Apr 12
    20

    Pluralsight has developed a great training course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps with EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery. It is presented by the most excellent Dan Wahlin, and is really comprehensive. Details of the course outline can be found here. Free 1-Month Subscription to the Course Pluralsight is offering a special promotion that allows you to get a free 1-month subscription to watch the above course as many time as you want at no cost. There is no obligation to buy anything at the end...

  • Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part III: The architecture using the

    Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part III: The architecture using the "Web stack of love"

    Apr 12
    03

    This is the third post in a series about rebuilding one of my Web sites, which has been around for 12 years. I hope to relaunch in the next month or two. More: Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF Part II: Hot data objects I finally hit a point in the re-do of CoasterBuzz where I feel like the major pieces are in place... rewritten, ported and what not, so that I can focus now on front-end design and more interesting creative problems. I've been asked on more than one occasion (OK, just...

  • Open source adventures with... wait for it... Microsoft

    Open source adventures with... wait for it... Microsoft

    Mar 12
    31

    Last week, Microsoft announced that it was going to open source the rest of the ASP.NET MVC Web stack. The core MVC framework has been open source for a long time now, but the other pieces around it are also now out in the wild. Not only that, but it's not what I call "big bang" open source, where you release the source with each version. No, they're actually committing in real time to a public repository. They're also taking contributions where it makes sense. If that weren't exciting enoug...

  • ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

    ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

    Mar 12
    28

    Microsoft has made the source code of ASP.NET MVC available under an open source license since the first V1 release. We’ve also integrated a number of great open source technologies into the product, and now ship jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, jQuery Validation, Modernizr.js, NuGet, Knockout.js and JSON.NET as part of it. I’m very excited to announce today that we will also release the source code for ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages (aka Razor) under an open source license (Apache 2...

  • ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta

    ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta

    Feb 12
    20

    A few days ago we released the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. This is a significant release that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities. The ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release works with VS 2010 and .NET 4.0, and is side-by-side compatible with prior releases of ASP.NET MVC (meaning you can safely install it and not worry about it impacting your existing apps built with earlier releases). It supports a “go-live” license that allows you to build and deploy production apps with it. Click ...

  • POP Forums v9.3 Beta posted with mobile views for ASP.NET MVC 4

    POP Forums v9.3 Beta posted with mobile views for ASP.NET MVC 4

    Feb 12
    16

    Download the bits from CodePlex here. Visit a live demo (preferably on a mobile device) here. This is an extremely experimental build of POP Forums v9.3, which includes jQuery Mobile and mobile views baked in for mobile formatting sauce. It requires ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta, which you can download here. Of course, feel free to submit bugs to the issue tracker. See a live demo here: http://popforums.com/Forums What's new? Uses jQuery Mobile and the ASP.NET MVC4 beta to provide mobile-optimized...

  • Using the Scoring Game from POP Forums with your ASP.NET MVC app

    Using the Scoring Game from POP Forums with your ASP.NET MVC app

    Jan 12
    27

    Let me tell you a story of HR-discouraged workplace fun. Back in the day, prior to the crash-and-burn of Insurance.com, we had this thing in the development part of the company called the Scoring Game. I wrote about it a couple of years ago on my personal blog. The long and short of it is that we kept a running total of +/-1’s for virtually anything you can think of, for each participant. This was back in 2006, before it became trendy to do it for everything else on the Internets. Later, Dig...

  • POP Forums v9.2.1 posted to CodePlex, adds only Spanish translation

    POP Forums v9.2.1 posted to CodePlex, adds only Spanish translation

    Jan 12
    26

    Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I've got an updated version of our most recent POP Forums drop. The new v9.2.1 adds Spanish along side of Danish, German and English as available languages. It has no new features or bug fixes, so if you have v9.2.0, and you don't need Spanish, these aren't the droids you're looking for. Want to translate to yet another language? Drop me a line: jeff@popw.com. ...

  • POP Forums v9.1.0 has been posted to CodePlex!

    POP Forums v9.1.0 has been posted to CodePlex!

    Dec 11
    15

    Finally! After moving, being a dad and engaging in a great deal of home improvement, I finally managed to find time to an update out to POP Forums. I hope to not be that guy anymore, going forever between updates. Release Notes This is the first release for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. It is feature complete, stable, and ready for feedback. For previous release notes, see previous releases. Check out the live preview: http://preview.popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are ...

  • Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th

    Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th

    May 11
    24

    The (awesome) UK developer community is holding another all day event with Steve Sanderson and me in London on June 6th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here. Content The event goes from 9am to 5pm, and will feature a bunch of great .NET content. The current agenda includes the following talks: Build an app using ASP.NET MVC 3, EF Code First, NuGet and IIS Express (ScottGu) We'll spend 2 ho...