Author Archives: Eric Hexter

About Eric Hexter

I am an Architect for Dell.com on the Engineering Excellence team. I (co)Founded MvcContrib, Should, Solution Factory, and Pstrami open source projects. I have co-authored MVC 2 in Action, MVC3 in Action, and MVC 4 in Action. I co-founded online events like mvcConf, aspConf, and Community for MVC. I am also a Microsoft MVP in ASP.Net.

Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC4; the Bootstrap package for ASP.Net MVC4

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Eric Hexter

UPDATE: To learn more about the Package read these blog posts: Introduction Release 1.0.71 Bootstrap MVC – Menu System Bootstrap as described by the project website is: “Sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development”. It is … Continue reading →

Posted in Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, Bootstrap.mvc, CodeProject, mvc, nuget, Open Source Software, OSS | 64 Comments

How to use Git and Github for Windows from within a Windows auth proxy network.

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Eric Hexter

If you work at a company where you need to type in your user id to access sites on the internet and when you want to use git to push to a repository on the internet and it just hangs. … Continue reading →

Posted in CodeProject, GIT, Tools | 6 Comments

Code review of a Publish/Subscribe Architecture using SignalR in Home Automation – Part 4

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Eric Hexter

Part 1 – Synchronizing webpages across devices with SignalR Part 2 – Architecture for a SignalR Synchronized Webpage Application Part 3 – Publish Subscribe using SignalR Part 4 – Front End Code Review Previously, I covered an example of synchronizing … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, c#, jQuery, jquery mobile, mvc, signalR | 4 Comments

Publish and Subscribe using SignalR in Home Automation – Part 3

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Eric Hexter

using signalR aspnetmvc knockoutjs javascript jquerymobile x10 Part 1 – Synchronizing webpages across devices with SignalR Part 2 – Architecture for a SignalR Synchronized Webpage Application Part 3 – Publish Subscribe using SignalR Part 4 – Front End Code Review … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, c#, jQuery, jquery mobile, knockoutJs, Open Source Software, OSS, signalR | 3 Comments

Architecture for a SignalR Synchronized Webpage Application

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Eric Hexter

using: signalR aspnetmvc knockoutjs javascript jquerymobile x10 Part 1 – Synchronizing webpages across devices with SignalR Part 2 – Architecture for a SignalR Synchronized Webpage Application Part 3 – Publish Subscribe using SignalR Part 4 – Front End Code Review … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, CodeProject, jQuery, jquery mobile, knockoutJs, mvc, Open Source Software, OSS, signalR, software | Comments Off

Download All the Build Videos, while you sleep

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Eric Hexter

I don’t remember where I found this a while back, but this is the script I am using to download all the Build 2012 videos to my office. ( so I can share them with all my co-workers) This script … Continue reading →

Posted in Powershell, Tools | 4 Comments

Lostechies.com traffic growth 2009 to 2012

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Eric Hexter

I was looking at some pageviews on google analytics (GA) and and comparing my pageviews to the rest of the traffic on the site. This made me realize I could not pull the type of report I wanted from GA.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Synchronizing webpages across devices with SignalR – Part 1

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Eric Hexter

After your done with this post, explore the others in this series: Part 1 – Synchronizing webpages across devices with SignalR Part 2 – Architecture for a SignalR Synchronized Webpage Application Part 3 – Publish Subscribe using SignalR Part 4 … Continue reading →

Posted in Asp.Net MVC, azure, CodeProject, jQuery, jquery mobile, knockoutJs, signalR | 12 Comments

Github for windows – I would send a pull request if I could

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Eric Hexter

I am a huge fan of Github for Windows. I believe it is a major game changer for using GIT on windows machines. It took a horrible installation experience and turned it into a pleasant surprise. I think that the … Continue reading →

Posted in GIT, software, source control, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Offshore and Distributed Software Team Survey

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Eric Hexter

There has been a lot of effort spent making software development teams work across multiple locations.  There are a number of models to how this can be setup. Offshore, Nearshore, dual-shore, and just distributed. Over the years there have been … Continue reading →

Posted in offshore, software | 3 Comments