Dev Summit REST and MVC Presentation + Audio

Just got a tweet from Dave Cardella at ESRI that my presentation from the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit, “Building RESTful Apps and Services with ASP.NET MVC” is now up on the ESRI Media Gallery.  The presentation includes the slide deck (recording started late so it’s missing the title slide) as well as audio.  Many thanks [...]

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MVC Data Access…Decisions, Decisions

I was about half way through writing up a long winded post about choosing a data access provider for use in ASP.NET MVC projects, when somebody tweeted the URL to this excellent post.  I’d fielded several “what should I use” questions at the dev summit last week and was nearly done with my promised response [...]

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Tech Talk: RESTful Apps and Services with ASP.NET MVC

Yesterday I gave a presentation at the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit on RESTful apps and services using ASP.NET MVC. As this is the first year for user sessions, I was completely surprised at the turn out. We filled the theater and spilled out in the ESRI showcase area. Lots of questions and [...]

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ESRI Dev Summit Presentation and Party

The 2009 ESRI Developer Summit is fast approaching and this year, one of the new “features” at the conference is the allocation of space and time slots for the user/developer community to speak on technical topics of interest to them.  I was fortunate enough to land one of the time slots to talk about RESTful [...]

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Project Example: ASP.NET MVC + SubSonic Architecture

So I’ve thrown up a couple of posts over the past couple of months regarding our use of SubSonic to provide the DAL in association with some ASP.NET MVC sites and was waylaid in my original intent to throw up a post summarizing the architecture we’re using for the effort. Well I’ve finally gotten around [...]

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Handling Recursive Relates with SubSonic and LINQ

Dave has been posting some good stuff relating to a project we’re working on right now that leverages SubSonic in the data tier with MVC providing all the shiny goodness in the web tier. SubSonic has been an excellent code generator for our DAL and handles somewhere between 75-90% of the cases for our [...]

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SubSonic to View and back again…adventures of a POCO

For a project I’m currently working on, we’re going to be implementing the repository pattern to provide a layer of abstraction and separation between our Model/Domain and the data access logic.  One of the things we’re being mindful of is that we don’t want to go toting around objects that include logic on how to [...]

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MOSS 2007, ArcGIS Server REST smackdown

Recently, we’ve seen an uptick in demand in a couple of our corporate office sites with clients looking for MOSS/ArcGIS or MOSS/VE integration to provide spatial context for their corporate portal content for a variety of markets.  Some time ago the company rolled up a product called Constellation that integrated ArcGIS Server with MOSS and now our Houston [...]

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Kewl Silverlight charts

As Silverlight begins to take hold and I’ve actually visited and interacted with a few sites that leverage the technology, I’ve been sort of interested in the fancy charting and analysis packages that I’ve seen.  You know the deal…bouncing bar graphs, flying pie charts, etc.  Dealing with custom reporting and charting requirements has always been [...]

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The impossible question…sane interviewing

So I took some time awhile back to pick on recruiters a bit and wanted to take a few minutes and jot down some thoughts about the technical interview process for developers.  Time to pick on interviewers, including myself for awhile. 
First, you must all go read my favorite post ever about technical interviews.  You have to [...]

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