Brian Prince, Regional CTO/DPE for Microsoft, talks about Azure and related services. Brian is a brilliant guy who is very involved with the community and is a co-founder of CodeMash and the co-author of Azure in Action.
Yet Another Podcast #117–Elijah Manor and John Papa on jQuery and other JavaScript Libraries
Two extraordinary guests, John Papa and Elijah Manor, discuss the role of jQuery in JavaScript today, and how it works 
and plays with other libraries such as Angular.
- Elijah’s blog
- John’s blog
- jQuery
- Angularjs
- Elijah’s jQuery-free presentation
- Elijah’s jQuery-free course
A Baker’s Dozen on Web Applications
I am in the middle of unrolling on Pluralsight, a complete entry-level program in 
developing Web Applications, with a focus on free and open-source software.
At its heart are these courses:
- Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC, ServiceStack and Bootstrap
- Building a Web Site with Open Source Software on Windows (Next week)
- Building a Web App with ASP.NET MVC, EF & WebAPI (forthcoming)
- Diving Deeper with Angular, Breeze, EF, WebAPI and Open Source Software (forthcoming)
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Yet Another Podcast #116–Tables Turned: Interviewing Jesse Liberty
In this podcast, my friends Jon Galloway and Jeffrey Fritz turn the tables, and interview 
me about life, the Universe and everything.
Yet Another Podcast #115–Basem Emara on What’s Coming in Javascript
Basem is a Senior Software Engineer at Falafel Software. He has over 10 years experience as a consultant and developer for dozens of projects 
for educational, advocacy, non-profit, small business, enterprise, and governmental organizations. As an innovator who recognizes and leverages the power of the web, he has been able to help real estate agencies, schools, hospitals, wholesale distributors, shipping carriers, and other businesses pioneer their industries utilizing the best that today’s technology has to offer from a more creative point of view. Simple yet elegant is the key to his approach, as well as the belief that continual process improvement is always possible.
Posted in Falafel Software, JavaScript, Podcast
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Intel Ultrabook Review: Haswell for the win!
In a previous posting, I explained that Intel sent me a Haswell Ultrabook to review. 
I’ve had it now for a few months, and, despite the problems I’ve had due to it being a pre-production module, it remains a superstar.
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New Pluralsight Course: Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC, ServiceStack and Bootstrap
Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC, ServiceStack and Bootstrap
In this course you will learn to create a meaningful web application using Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC coupled with the open-source projects ServiceStack and Bootstrap.
ServiceStack will provide a web service and API as well as dependency injection through an Inversion of Control container, and it will provide ORMLite, a light-weight Object Relational Mapper.
Bootstrap will provide a much cleaner and more professional UI design than might otherwise be available.
Together, these libraries make creating a real world web application not only possible, but relatively straightforward, even if this is your first web app. Some knowledge of C# is required, as is familiarity with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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Yet Another Podcast #114–Test Driven Development
Jon Galloway joins me in talking with Phil Japikse and James Bender of Telerik about Test 
Driven Development and related techniques.
Yet Another Podcast #113–John Sonmez–Pluralsight Author and a focus on ServiceStack
Jon Galloway joins me in talking with the amazing John Sonmez, who has written over 50 
courses for Pluralsight. We focus on ServiceStack and then on Xamarin, but touch on many related topics.
- John’s Website
- John’s courses on Pluralsight
- Service Stack
- ASP.NET
- Xamarin
- John’s course on MVC4 and Xamarin 2.0
Please note that I have two Pluralsight courses coming in 2013 on ServiceStack; the first with ASP.NET MVC, the second with Angularjs. More information soon.
Yet Another Podcast #112–John Papa & Dan Wahlin on Angular
Dan and John are both Microsoft MVPs and Regional Directors, and they are both brilliant, 
fascinating and expert on AngularJS. They are very successful Pluralsight authors, and Dan is the founder of the Wahlin Group. John and Dan are Internationally sought-after speakers.
- Ten Reasons Developers Should Learn Angular.js
- Topsy Angular Analytics
- AngularJS Documenation
- Dan Wahlin’s Customer Manager App
- John Papa’s Site
- AngularJS in 60-ish minutes
- Angle Brackets Conference
- NG Conference
- SideWaffle
- HotTowel Angular
- Yeoman
- Angular Core (NuGet)
- Angular Live Demo
- John’s Angular course
- Grunt.JS
- Dan’s JavaScript Patterns e-book
- Revealing Module Pattern
Yet Another Podcast #111–Lance Bullock on Xamarin
Lance Bullock is the VP of Mobile Solutions for Falafel Software.
Lance has over 20 years’ experience leading teams, architecting, and developing enterprise-level solutions for some of the world’s largest corporations.
Prior to joining the Falafel team, Lance served as a Group Manager at Check Point Software Technologies. As a leader and engineer, he was responsible for scalability, performance, feature development, federation/clustering, and protocol work on the Check Point Endpoint Security Secure Access Server; which managed tens of thousands of desktop security installations.
Prior to Check Point, Lance was CTO/Vice President of Technology at Full Moon Interactive and .class Corporation, where he was a recognized industry expert in Delphi, JBuilder, and Windows development; as well as a speaker, author, and trainer. Lance holds a B.S. in Computer Science/Mathematics from California State University Sacramento. In his spare time, Lance can usually be found at some random Bay Area sports venue, watching his sons in their various athletic pursuits.
Learning Xamarin–Menus!
[Please see the Table of Contents for this series.]
In this entry, I look at creating menus in an Android application.
This article is available on Falafel.com here.
