There is a thread going around on the Boise Web Techs Meetup group discussing online learning options. A pretty good list going here –
Read MoreMigrations are very powerful. When they work it?s awesome, but when things go wrong trying to determine what happened can be extremely frustrating. I have spent quite a bit of time mastering a process that works well for me. Here are a few pointers I have learned along the way: 1 – Do not […]
Read MoreI have a need for fax (yes, fax!) in an application I’m working on and ran across a cool little startup called Phaxio. Phaxio takes a different approach to fax than most of the dinosaurs competitors in the field. The fax API for devs. We make faxing as simple as an HTTP POST and have […]
Read MoreEarlier this month after @BoiseJS (Boise Javascript) Jason Denizac, Brett Adler and I started discussing the need for a ‘more than talking’ type of meet-up. We are all working on products/projects and wanted to create an opportunity where we can help out each out, learn, network and create a sense of ‘Hacker Culture’ here in […]
Read MoreI had a blast presenting on Backbone.js at Boise Code Camp this weekend. Thanks to all who attended! I received a lot of positive feedback and as such will be presenting the same talk at the Boise Web Technologies Group Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6:00 PM. RSVP here Slides & Source http://bit.ly/bcc12_backbonejs Blog post Resources […]
Read MoreBy definition an Entity should have an Identity. An issue that often comes up with EF is querying views which do not have a primary key. No key, no laundry. My preferred way to get around this is to create a value object (POCO) and use SqlQuery<T> to materialize results from the view. This is […]
Read MoreEntity Framework 5 beta is now available on nuget. EF5 includes many long awaited features which were dependent on the .NET framework 4.5 such as Spatial Data types, Enum support and Table-Valued functions. EF5 also includes significant performance improvements. You will need Visual Studio 11 in order to work with EF5, however EF 4.3.1 was […]
Read MoreThe EF team has released Entity Framework 4.3 which contains a fully supported version of Migrations. I have been using migrations in my projects since the Alpha 2 bits and would encourage EF Code First?ers to make the investment if they haven?t already. You can get EF 4.3 by installing the latest version of the […]
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