Sol 3

Remember last week when I mentioned the Microsoft Web Platform Installer? It's an bootstrapper that gets you setup for free web development, all in a single application. It'll setup IIS7, get you Visual Studio, SQL Server, .NET, etc. Cool. And there was much rejoicing (except XP folks, sorry.) Well, the team just released the Web Application ...

I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-fourth in a infinite number of posts of ''The Weekly Source Code.'' There's a lot of ways to ''extend'' an application or framework. ...

And so, Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-first in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." I'm doubling up this week, but the ASP.NET MVC Source was released today and I wanted to share more thoughts. I would also encourage you to check out TWSC 17 on Community ASP.NET MVC code. Read the Comments Look ...

My boss's boss has blogged about what's been going on this week: The ASP.NET MVC Source is up on CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet. You can download, read and compile it now. The goal is to start releasing drops really often. If you're into it, ...

All the sessions from Mix are up on http://sessions.visitmix.com/ for your viewing pleasure. I had a total blast giving theASP.NET MVC Talk. The energy was really good and the crowd (of around 600, I hear) was really cool. You can download the MVC talk in these formats: ...

If you're new to this, each week I post some snippets of particularly interesting (read: beautiful, ugly, clever, obscene) source and the project it came from. This started from a belief that reading source is as important (or more so) as writing it. We read computer books to become better programmers, but unless you're ...

If you're new to this, each week I post some snippets of particularly interesting (read: beautiful, ugly, clever, obscene) source and the project it came from. This started from a belief that reading source is as important (or more so) as writing it. We read computer books to become better programmers, but unless you're reading books like ...

During my Friday Keynote at the PNPSummit I did a silly 30 minute PowerPoint that ended with some LOLCats and a few examples of LOLCode. If you're not familiar with LOLCats, they are basically silly pictures of cats that speak a l33tspeak-like language, like IM IN UR BASE KILLIN YUR D00DS. This language has turned ...

In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, I now present the seventhin an infinite number of a weekly series called ''The Weekly Source Code.'' Here's some source I'm reading this week that I enjoyed. I got a little sidetracked the recent trip to the ALT.NET conference, so forgive me for missing last ...