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  • Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year

    Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year

    Dec 11
    23

    This is the time of year when people look back at the year just passed, review and looks out for the year to come. My retrospection post will come in the new year, but for the moment I want to review my top posts of 2011. The most popular post of 2011 1. The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far – This blog post contains the list of all the version of ASP.NET MVC, and the features that were brought into each version. It was featured in the home page of the asp.net portal for a few days at the b...

  • Departures

    Departures

    Nov 11
    28

    It’s not every day you write this sort of blog post. And you hope it’s not something you do so often that you ever get good at it. I’m certainly sucking up a storm here. Just last month I hit my four year mark at Microsoft. I reflected on the sheer joy I experienced working with such smart people on cool projects. I’ve been very lucky and fortunate to be able to speak about these projects at many conferences, meeting so many interesting attendees. It’s been a real blast. Today, I write a d...

  • What I liked of Agile.NET 2011 Europe

    What I liked of Agile.NET 2011 Europe

    Oct 11
    20

    A few weeks ago I attended the Agile.NET 2011 Europe conference, in Gent. In this post I just want collect some links to the slides of the event, and give some personal comments on the sessions and topics. Agile from A to Z It all started very early on Monday (probably it’s standard here in Belgium, but it’s my first conference that starts with the first session at 9:00am) with a nice keynote from Jon Jagger, titled “Agile from A to Z”. It was a nice collections of quotes and facts about Agi...

  • 7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version)

    7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version)

    Sep 11
    12

    In the previous years “n books for a .NET Summer reading list” used to be the title of the book list post. Now, in the last of my 4 posts with books suggestions I am back to the original title. In my introductory post I said I would have listed only a few web development on .NET books. In fact there are only 2. Web Development on .NET Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 While Professional ASP.NET MVC v2 was mainly an update of the original professional MVC1 book, the third remake, due to the nature o...

  • Summer time learning: Getting started with Node.js

    Summer time learning: Getting started with Node.js

    Aug 11
    31

    It is now a consolidate tradition for me to publish, during summer time, a list of the books I liked reading or that I bought and are sitting on my shelves (or, lately, more and more on my iPad) waiting to be read. In the last years these lists contained .NET and development methodologies books and web development books (jQuery and JavaScript). The topics of the book in this year’s list are a bit different. There will still be a bit of web development on .NET, but due to the nature of the pr...

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