Keynote Address working title: Journey to DDD
Entity Framework in Core Business Applications and Domain-Driven Design Approaches See the mini-DDD track in New Orleans & Madrid	Vote for  Entity Framework in Core Business Applications Automated Testing for Fraidy Cats Like Me

 

Silliness ensued after Pluralsight invited all of the authors and staff to participate in yet another spoof of the Call Me Maybe video. Sampson and I did our part (after many many tries!) Check it out....

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As developers and analysts, we spend a lot of time asking “what if?”. What if the user enters too many characters into this data entry field? What if the network hiccups during a database save? What if users are allowed to delete the record for this consecutively numbered item and then another user worries...

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No points for me on comic books, Star Trek, the Hobbit & video games. I’m very good with that. But really, no questions from Big Bang Theory? Demerits to the quiz! ;)  Knock Knock, Penny! Knock Knock, Penny! Knock Knock, Penny! 47% Geek...

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I’ve been using SysPrep to create a bootable WIn7 VHD as per this great set of blog posts by Scott Hanselman. Step-By-Step: Turning a Windows 7 DVD or ISO into a Bootable VHD Virtual Machine Less Virtual, More Machine - Windows 7 and the magic of Boot to VHD Almost everything in those two posts...

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I have a client with a legacy VB6 app which we occasionally tweak. It has an exe and many DLL’s. Over the years I graduated from using a batch file to a script (WSF) file to let them pull updates. The script file checks the date of the local version of the file against the date of the files on the server...

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I had a need to do a first stage test of an Astoria Service that has to read some cookies. (Second stage will be encryption). Took me a while to figure out how to send cookies using Fiddler’s Request Builder, so I wanted to write it down. It’s easy peesy. Cookie: color=blue;flavor=chocolate...

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(Update: I have documented proof that I am backslash/forwardslash challenged. Sorry for mixing them up. I think I got them right this time) A bright young developer who works for my client is building a PHP app and is going to consume data from an ADO.NET Data Service that I built. He was trying to build...

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I joined Twitter on May 30th ( http://twitter.com/julielermanvt ). Since then I have written over 500 tweets. I realize that I have written only FIVE blog posts this month. Five in 15 days. If you know me, you will probably find that as shocking as I do....

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She finally buckled. How many of us learned about Object Oriented Programming and oh so much more from Deborah? (Raising my hand) Deborah's Developer MindScape Subscribed