March, 2012

Syntactic Sugar? Maybe. [ Updated to reflect a reader’s observation – missing Func<> coverage. Now included ] I was speaking with a colleague of mine today, Bret Stateham ( http://bretstateham.com ) and I was explaining my ignorance to some well...

Starting with the Node Package Manager I start this post by installing Node Package Manager. This is your gateway to Node nirvana. NPM will allow you to leverage 1000s of lines of others code to make your node development efficient. After installing NPM...

Who’s the wizard behind the curtain? I’ve been reading Martin Fowler’s post about Inversion of Control / Dependency Injection at http://www.martinfowler.com . I looked long and hard for very simple examples that were easy to follow. I wanted to explore...

Introduction The purpose of this post is to bring you up to speed writing Windows Azure cloud-based applications from scratch. I assume you just have the hardware and the willingness to get started by installing the software.  Not everybody can afford...

Introduction I am on a Microsoft Patterns and Practices advisory board to explore and provide guidance on the well-known and popular CQRS Design Pattern. We are exploring occasionally disconnected scenarios as part of the project. As new versions of Windows...