Posts categorized 'Waxing Dev'

First off, I hope you are having an awesome holiday season. I was enjoying mine this past Sunday and talking to my cousin Duane Roelands , who is also a .NET developer, about programmers. I said (and I think this is stolen from somewhere, just not sure where), "There is no such thing as famous programmers...

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I have been wanting to write a blog about this for a while and my first post on Devlicious is the perfect place. Firstly I have to thank Jess Chadwick for his help with this when I first started out with the Bundl.it project. Working with ASP.NET MVC has been wonderous, but when I was first starting...

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I want to preface this post by saying thank you for everyone that contributes to the movement of trying to get women into software. I respect each of you and appreciate that something that is important to me is important to you as well. There is something that has been weighing on my heart for a long...

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I wanted to expound on something very important that I kind of glazed over in the last post, View Models. View Models are something that is very pivotal to MVC and were one of the hardest things for me to understand. I feel like it's important to go over them in depth so you can understand them as well...

Continue reading "ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) - What the Frig is a View Model?"

Ok, so, do you remember learning about HTTP Get and HTTP Post in school? Ok, do you remember when you started building Web Forms and you just chalked that up to another thing that you learned in school that's not applicable in the real world? Well, guess what. MVC is 100% get and post. Never fear, it...

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After a great time at a language agnostic conference this past weekend (I don't have pictures, I got a new camera and I forgot to bring it. I was so mad) I've gotten to thinking about framework agnostic languages. The ones you need to know whether you're a Python, C#, Ruby, or Java developer. I came...

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Every child has a dream. I remember when he was little my childhood friend Sarah's little brother wanted to be a fire dog. Sometimes it is nice to reflect on these things as adults. However, our modern programmer has taken to fashion himself after one of his favorite childhood heroes: the Ninja. He wants...

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Some of you will remember my rant about open source , and how I couldn't find time to do it and didn't know how anyone could. That post caused a big backlash, lots of people wanted to know how I could say that without ever trying it. Many more shared their personal experiences getting involved in open...

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Obviously I've been putting this off a little. I think the controller has been haunting me, it's very intimidating. I've become such a good friend to System.Web.UI.Page, it's hard to imagine my life without him. However, we all get older, grow apart. It's time for me (and you) to go head first into the...

Continue reading "ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (3 in a series)"

I was thinking about this today as I was driving. I was thinking about blogs I read, and developers whose work that I admire. I was thinking they were both in very separate categories. Not always applicable, and I'm not going to throw out any names. What I'm saying is, it's difficult to accomplish something...

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