Category Archives: Community

Speaking in Detroit area this week

Not because I’m a Tigers or Yankees fan at all, I promise. I’m doing a mini-user group tour this week in the Detroit, MI area. October 16th – NWNUG (Northwest Ohio NUG, Toledo, OH) – Functional Testing with ASP.NET MVC … Continue reading 

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Backbone Fundamentals, Intro To Marionette, TodoMVC, And More

I’m very happy to announce that this week’s addition to Addy Osmani’s Backbone Fundamentals book is a chapter on Marionette! I was lucky enough to be able to contribute a large portion of the chapter to the book, including a … Continue reading 

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Registration is open for aspConf

We are really excited about this conference! This is a free, online, two day conference that will focus on web development on using .Net.  We will have great speakers from the community and industry lined up. We already have speakers … Continue reading 

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Help Me Improve The Marionette Wiki

Documentation is difficult to write, and even more difficult to write well so that it covers all of the nuances and details that the people building the actual project tend to assume and forget. My Marionette project is no different. … Continue reading 

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ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source and what it means

In case you missed it, a large part of ASP.NET is not only going open source, but will be developed in the open on CodePlex and will accept contributions. Now, ASP.NET MVC has always been open source, but has always … Continue reading 

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Speaking at San Diego DNUG tonight

If you’re in the San Diego area tonight, I’ll be giving my talk on domain modeling. Details below: http://www.sandiegodotnet.com/ I’ve been told that there is free pizza. If not, I might be able score some stale bagels from my hotel’s … Continue reading 

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CodeMash 2012 wrap up

This year was my first to attend the bacon debauchery that is CodeMash. I had been suggested to go by pretty much everyone that I’ve met that has gone, and this year I was fortunate enough to be selected as … Continue reading 

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Welcome, Hugo Bonacci, To LosTechies!

Not quite a year ago, I interviewed a developer while working at my previous job. He struck me, my boss, and the other people that interviewed him, as some one who is passionate about and dedicated to building great software … Continue reading 

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Re-learning The Meaning of ! in Ruby Methods

Hugo Bonacci has been tweeting a lot about the Eloquent Ruby book, so I decided to pick up a copy. In spite in my year or two of working with Ruby, I still feel like a n00b most of the … Continue reading 

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Do Unto Others

There are many concepts that software development processes and management can learn from. Many of them we use for our technical engineering, others apply to processes and still more apply to the organization as a whole. But none come as … Continue reading 

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