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  • Tekpub ASP.NET MVC 2 Starter Site 0.5 Released

    Tekpub ASP.NET MVC 2 Starter Site 0.5 Released

    May 10
    23

    What Is The Tekpub MVC Starter Site? If I could capture it in a sentence, it would be If I only I knew then what I know now... I've uttered those words a lot over my career - and it's usually the result of my attempt to get up to speed on, and then effectively implement, a new technology. It also means rewriting a lot of stuff - which is incredibly wasteful. One such thing I wish I always knew about (and used effectively) is Inversion of Control. When it finally hits you - and you get ...


  • Tekpub ASP.NET MVC 2 Starter Site 0.5 Released

    Tekpub ASP.NET MVC 2 Starter Site 0.5 Released

    May 10
    23

    What Is The Tekpub MVC Starter Site? If I could capture it in a sentence, it would be If I only I knew then what I know now... I've uttered those words a lot over my career - and it's usually the result of my attempt to get up to speed on, and then effectively implement, a new technology. It also means rewriting a lot of stuff - which is incredibly wasteful. One such thing I wish I always knew about (and used effectively) is Inversion of Control. When it finally hits you - and you get ...


  • Tekpub ASP.NET MVC 2 Starter Site 0.5 Released

    Tekpub ASP.NET MVC 2 Starter Site 0.5 Released

    May 10
    23

    What Is The Tekpub MVC Starter Site? If I could capture it in a sentence, it would be If I only I knew then what I know now... I've uttered those words a lot over my career - and it's usually the result of my attempt to get up to speed on, and then effectively implement, a new technology. It also means rewriting a lot of stuff - which is incredibly wasteful. One such thing I wish I always knew about (and used effectively) is Inversion of Control. When it finally hits you - and you get ...


  • NoSQL In The Wild: How We Do It at Tekpub

    NoSQL In The Wild: How We Do It at Tekpub

    May 10
    18

    Let's Get This Out Of The Way First Some people might read this as "Rob's defecting" or "Rob's a 'Rails Guy' now". If you're looking for drama and sassy posts on The One True Framework - there's a site for that. Our choice to move to Rails/NoSQL was largely financial - you can read more about that here. What follows can easily be translated to whatever framework you work with - assuming a Mongo driver exists for it. TL;DR Summary We split out the duties of our persistence story cleanly ...


  • NoSQL In The Wild: How We Do It at Tekpub

    NoSQL In The Wild: How We Do It at Tekpub

    May 10
    18

    Let's Get This Out Of The Way First Some people might read this as "Rob's defecting" or "Rob's a 'Rails Guy' now". If you're looking for drama and sassy posts on The One True Framework - there's a site for that. Our choice to move to Rails/NoSQL was largely financial - you can read more about that here. What follows can easily be translated to whatever framework you work with - assuming a Mongo driver exists for it. TL;DR Summary We split out the duties of our persistence story cleanly ...


  • NoSQL In The Wild: How We Do It at Tekpub

    NoSQL In The Wild: How We Do It at Tekpub

    May 10
    18

    Let's Get This Out Of The Way First Some people might read this as "Rob's defecting" or "Rob's a 'Rails Guy' now". If you're looking for drama and sassy posts on The One True Framework - there's a site for that. Our choice to move to Rails/NoSQL was largely financial - you can read more about that here. What follows can easily be translated to whatever framework you work with - assuming a Mongo driver exists for it. TL;DR Summary We split out the duties of our persistence story cleanly ...


  • Sharpening The Saw

    Sharpening The Saw

    Jan 10
    24

    I had an interesting experience when building out Tekpub with James Avery: I’m a tad rusty at “real world” work. The work I’ve done over the last 3-4 years has basically been instructional/tutorial based and I know the technologies well – it’s the bending of those technologies to real business concerns that I’ve let “rust up” a bit. I’d like to change that – so if you or your team have some part time/remote work, lemme know! Arm-Chair Coding Nothing’s worse than watching someone you respec...


  • Code for My Blog is On Github

    Code for My Blog is On Github

    Dec 09
    11

    Was trying for something a bit more “flowery” and exciting with that title but… well whatever. A few months ago I mentioned that people should build their own blog as a way to keep their skills sharp with new things. Was trying for something a bit more “flowery” and exciting with that title but… well whatever. A few months ago I mentioned that people should build their own blog as a way to keep their skills sharp with new things. More often then not we only know what we do at work, and let our ...

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