Author Archives: Chad Myers

About Chad Myers

Chad Myers is the Director of Development for Dovetail Software, in Austin, TX, where he leads a premiere software team building complex enterprise software products. Chad is a .NET software developer specializing in enterprise software designs and architectures. He has over 12 years of software development experience and a proven track record of Agile, test-driven project leadership using both Microsoft and open source tools. He is a community leader who speaks at the Austin .NET User's Group, the ADNUG Code Camp, and participates in various development communities and open source projects.

Domains available

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Chad Myers

In my effort to make myself an ex-GoDaddy customer, I have 3 domains left to transfer or let expire. Two of them I’m making available to transfer to anyone who wants them (rather than letting them expire so that you … Continue reading →

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Sweet, sweet vindication

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Chad Myers

It’s been awhile since I have written an eye-poker post. I’ve been trying be more reserved, professional, and politically correct. But that basically had a cooling effect on my writing. So it’s time we turn up the heat and let … Continue reading →

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Cool stuff in FubuMVC No. 2: Action Conventions

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Chad Myers

This is the second post of the FubuMVC series mentioned in the Introduction post. UPDATE: Josh Arnold (FubuMVC contributor) pointed out an error in a code sample (at the bottom about custom conventions) and that I missed another extension point … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, cool-stuff-in-fubu, FubuMVC | 6 Comments

New Blogger: Ryan Rauh

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Chad Myers

I’m pleased to announce there’s a new blogger on the Los Techies blog roll: Ryan Rauh. Ryan is a high-energy guy and has his hands in a lot of new tech out there, so expect some exciting blog posts from … Continue reading →

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Code Review Quiz

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Chad Myers

I’ve been following Ayende’s series of reviews on the Microsoft N Layer App Sample V2.  His most recent post in the series explored a little bit of the data access layer in the app. Specifically, this interface (which has since … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, code-review, quiz | 8 Comments

Pablo’s Fiesta 2011

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Chad Myers

In case you haven’t seen John’s posts about Pablo’s Fiesta,  I suggest you check them out. That’s right, Los Techies is having the 2nd annual “Pablo’s Fiesta” open spaces conference in Austin, TX over the weekend September 30, October 1 … Continue reading →

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Cool stuff in FubuMVC No. 1: Behaviors

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Chad Myers

This is the first post of the FubuMVC series mentioned in the Introduction post. Perhaps the coolest thing about FubuMVC (and I’m not kidding when I say there’s a lot of cool stuff) is the behavior model. This fundamental concept … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, cool-stuff-in-fubu, FubuMVC | 11 Comments

Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 9: Stringification

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Chad Myers

This is the ninth post of the FubuCore series mentioned in the Introduction post. It’s a funny title, but it captures the point perfectly.  What do you do when you have something (a domain entity or model object of some … Continue reading →

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Convention over lots of code

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Chad Myers

I’m in the middle of writing my last FubuCore series post before I proceed to the FubuMVC series of posts.   The post is called “Stringification” (String-eh-feh-k-shun) and it’s about using conventions to remove a lot of code that deals with … Continue reading →

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A Quick Follow-up on Model Binding in FubuCore

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Chad Myers

I wanted to make some quick follow-up points to my “Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 7: Model Binding” post: Joshua Flanagan pointed out that I had an error in my description of how the ExpandEnvironmentVariablesAttribute works.  I updated the post … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, cool-stuff-in-fubu, fubucore, FubuMVC | 2 Comments