Tonight I’m presenting at the Los Angeles Dot Net user group (LADOTNET). I’ll be covering Knockout JS and how you can use it in an ASP.NET MVC app.  I hope to see you there. Here are the slides and demos Slides Demo Source Code  – Play with the Demos Online Here’s a few useful links about [...]

This past Tuesday, I had the opportunity to speak at another local user group, SoCal Team System. My talk was a hands on introduction to unit testing. We went over several code demos and built a simple asp.net mvc site using TDD best practice. Thanks to everyone that came out! Here is the Slide Deck and [...]

This past weekended I spoke at the 4th annual LA Code Camp. I had an amazing time speaking, listening to some great presentations and interacting with lots of great people. Thanks to everyone that came to my talks! I would really appreciate feed back on my presentations. So if you attended a talk, please visit my [...]

Later today I’ll be speaking at the San Luis Obispo .NET User group. I’ll be presenting on Knockout JS, a powerful MVVM library for JavaScript. Knockout makes building interactive rich UI’s a lot of fun! I hope to see you there. If you do attend, I ask that you please rate my talk so I [...]

This past weekend I attended the SoCal Code Camp in San Diego and I had a blast. I gave 5 talks on mvc related topic and attended several great sessions. It was a fun experience and I truly enjoy going to Code Camp, it’s a great place to learn about new technologies and hang out [...]

Today Microsoft released a new add-on for ASP.NET MVC 3. The ASP.NET MVC3 Tools Update does not update any of the dll’s used by an mvc3 project, but adds some great new tooling support. You can read more about in on Phil Haack’s Blog Post regarding this release. In this post I’m going to show [...]

In asp.net mvc when you add a view to  correspond with an action method, you have the option of using several pre-defined templates that come with asp.net mvc (Create, Edit, Delete, Details and List.) Depending on the selected template, a particular view is scaffolded for you containing all the markup needed to perform the action. [...]

Thanks to everyone that attended my talk at So Cal Dot Net in Buena Park. I had an awesome time and it was a ton of fun. Here are the files from the presentation: Powerpoint Slides Sample Bad Application Repository Demo MvcScaffolding and ELMAH (error logging) demo Navigation Demo Excel Demo If you’re interested, here [...]

Thank you to everyone that attended my asp.net mvc 3 best practices talk at LA C# last night! I had a great time and I look forward to coming back and speaking to you guys about asp.net mvc. Here are the files from the presentation: Powerpoint Slides Sample Bad Application Repository Demo MvcScaffolding and ELMAH [...]

This weekend I attended and spoke at Code Camp Fullerton 2011. As always I had an amazing time. It’s always fun to meet and interact with other fellow developers. I went to a few really good sessions by some great presenters. I was also able to give a few talks myself on one of my [...]