adam mokan » blogging http://www.adammokan.com ramblings of a software developer, mad scientist, geek, and father Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:11:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Looking for feedback on future content http://www.adammokan.com/2011/07/18/looking-for-feedback-on-future-content/ http://www.adammokan.com/2011/07/18/looking-for-feedback-on-future-content/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:26:46 +0000 adam.mokan http://www.adammokan.com/?p=74 Yeah, yeah. I know this will probably show up as an empty promise since I always have the best intentions to post more, but I have some blog posts and samples in the works (some were literally ready to post and then a change came out and I have to make adjustments). My goal is to get at least one of them out by the end of July. If anyone has feedback on what they’d like to see first, please comment.

On deck, in no particular order :

  • A detailed post (with code and a Templify template to get you started) on a generic repository pattern for ASP.NET MVC 3 and Entity Framework 4.1 along with a unit tests that utilize SQL Compact edition that automatically create a new SQL Compact file upon starting tests, populates the schema with sample data, and then subsequently deletes the file after tests are complete. Dependency injection is done via Ninject, which is my IoC of choice for MVC3.
  • A post on consuming portable areas in MVC 3 for a plugin-like architecture. Think “modules” that can be dynamically loaded.
  • A post on the MVC lifecycle and when and why to use the various filter interfaces provided by ASP.NET MVC3.
  • A post on Node.js from a .NET developers perspective and how to get started with hosting, the current state of node on Windows and so-on.
  • A post on custom HtmlHelpers for MVC3 showing various techniques to keep those views nice and DRY.
  • A post on running JetBrains TeamCity 6.5 in the cloud using Amazon’s EC2 “micro” instance and automatically bringing up build agents and terminating them after the build. The post would be aimed at .NET development.
If you have any feedback on what you’d like to see, please comment.
]]> http://www.adammokan.com/2011/07/18/looking-for-feedback-on-future-content/feed/ 5 blogging has been an epic fail http://www.adammokan.com/2010/03/14/blogging-has-been-an-epic-fail/ http://www.adammokan.com/2010/03/14/blogging-has-been-an-epic-fail/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:35:00 +0000 adam.mokan http://www.adammokan.com/2010/03/14/blogging-has-been-an-epic-fail/ I've gone into nearly every weekend since January telling myself, I'm going to finish my already started blog posts this weekend and push them to the web. Well, it never happens.

Tonight I saved myself the future stress and simply deleted what I had begun writing, in many cases, from late 2009.

The craziest thing to me, in reading my half-written posts, is seeing how far I have come since last fall as a developer. I have read so many books either again (The Pragmatic Programmer) or for the first time (Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans) that have changed how I view software development and how I view previous choices I made in my career. Had I made the effort to really understand more years ago, I'd have experienced a lot less friction in certain jobs, but that's what life is all about, I guess. Learning from mistakes and not repeating them… as often.

From here on out, no more pooling unfinished posts. I'm going to just throw out more raw notes on what I'm working on and go from there. I spend too much time making things "perfect". I know my writing isn't great but it is not going to get any better in hiding. Right?

Until the next post, go check out the books mentioned above and a couple others I have really enjoyed over the past few months. The link goes to my list on Amazon.

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