Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: 
Sublime Text 3 From Scratch
Sublime Text 3 is the premier text editor for programmers. This course provides a complete tour of the editor along with extensive coverage of options, plugins, customization, editing, managing files and projects, selection and manipulation of text, automation and much more.
Thank you for considering my course, and please do leave feedback if you watch.
In a very recent post, I described a number of Insanely Essential Utilities for developers. It occurs to me that I put the cart before the horse, and prior to installing any of that, you need a development environment that is going to make you maximally productive.
Steve is a software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He’s also EVP, Services for Telerik. Steve has published several courses on Pluralsight, covering design patterns, software architecture, and improving software quality.
He’s a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, a frequent speaker at developer conferences, an author, and a trainer. In the past he co-founded and sold Lake Quincy Media and NimblePros (recently acquired by Telerik).
Lately I’ve been focused much more on Web development. Along the way, I’ve discovered a number of utilities that are simply essential to successful coding, depending of course on which frameworks and libraries you are using. Here’s a sampling, intended only to pique your interest, not to explore any of these in depth…
Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Kendo and MVC From Scratch.
Kendo is rapidly becoming one of the most popular frameworks for building professional looking web applications. More than just a beautiful set of widgets and data-visualizations, kendo is a complete framework with support for data, MVVM, object inheritance, Globalization, Single Page Applications and more.
This course assumes no prior experience with Kendo and is targeted at ASP.NET MVC developers.
Thank you for considering my course, and please do leave feedback if you watch.
In a recent entry in this series, I discussed one approach to preserving state when the application is stopped. I then received a tweet from my friend Paul Betts of GitHub.com saying “one thing that’s super useful is to use JSON.net to stuff off objects in the Bundle.” Great idea. Written up here.
Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: ASP.NET MVC Testing From Scratch.
ASP.NET MVC was designed with testing in mind. This course teaches everything you need to know about Unit Tests, Test Driven Development and User Interface Testing in the context of creating ASP.NET MVC applications.
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Today, I decided to see what would happen if I set out to write a simple program based on my knowledge of C#/.NET and the little I’ve learned so far about Xamarin and Android. The results were, if modest, very satisfying. The story is here.
Today I was awarded Microsoft’s MVP, which I have to say was truly terrific. It is an amazing program with some amazing people, many of whom are friends. This is the second time I received the MVP (the previous award was before I worked for Microsoft) and each time it is truly a blast.
I am very grateful.
As you may know, I have embarked on a course of learning Xamarin for Android. Here is the Table of Contents for the blog posts to date.
In today’s post, I look at adding a Spinner control to Android.
Jon Galloway, my friend and sometime co-host is interviewed by Jeff Fritz and me
about One ASP.NET and what’s new in ASP.NET.
Jon is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft focused on ASP.NET and Jeff is a Developer Evangelist for Telerik focused on ASP.NET and my co-author on my latest Pluralsight course: One ASP.NET From Scratch. 
They are both great people and are both incredibly well informed. We spend close to an hour just reviewing the new technology associated with ASP.NET and creating Web applications.
A week ago I wrote about my new editor: Sublime Text. As I explained then, I bought Sublime Text because I wanted a light-weight text editor with good support for code snippets. My initial impressions were that Sublime Text
