A couple of weeks ago, I digested the audio version of Outliers – The Story of Success, written by Malcolm Gladwell. In this book, the author tells the story of a couple well-known and also lesser-known individuals that are considered to be successful. But what’s particularly interesting about this book, is the analysis the author […]
Read MoreEarlier this week, Pluralsight published my first course, Introduction to Nancy. The Nancy framework, or NancyFX for short, is a web framework started by fellow Elegant Coder Andreas?H?kansson?(@thecodejunkie).?I feel very fortunate to have had?Andreas and Steven Robbins?(@grumpydev)?available to provide feedback on the course content. Some may wonder why I chose to create a NancyFX course… […]
Read MoreIn the previous blog posts I discussed the importance of getting enough sleep and physical exercise. For this post I want to provide a quick shout out of the social media diet that I’m currently trying out. My name is Jan and I don’t have a Facebook or a Netlog account of some kind. I […]
Read MoreI have been spending a lot of time working with some CMS systems recently.? I won?t name names but it could be Drupal, WordPress, DNN, Joomla etc ? doesn?t matter.? I have been working with two different systems for two unrelated projects that happened to arrive around the same time. I admit that I am […]
Read MoreThe older I get the more I am irritated by the use of sex appeal in corporate events. People who know me personally can attest that I am FAR from a prude. I can be pretty darn crude and inappropriately-humored with the best of them. Yet, recent events have gone far enough that I thought […]
Read MoreIn the previous blog post, I discussed the importance of getting enough sleep every single night. For this post I want to emphasize the importance of physical exercise. I’m writing these words after having run approximately 15 kilometers. This I do three times a week, every week, throughout the whole year with only a few […]
Read MoreJust a quick note to mention a new tool Peter Provost turned me onto yesterday. I am digging SubSpec. It’s another Context/Spec, BDD-ish tool that sits in the middle somewhere between executable specs and a low-level AAA simple assert model. It’s appropriate anywhere Machine Specification would be appropriate, for example. The code below also uses […]
Read MoreThis is the fourth video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video we create custom region adapters for the Infragistics XamRibbon and XamOutlookBar controls that are defined as regions in our application’s shell. The code you really care about are the two […]
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