Yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting a Windows 8 Unleashed event in Irvine.  It was a fun filled day where the attendees got to learn how to build apps for Windows 8, work on labs and participate in a contest.  I had an amazing group of volunteers help out including Tim Strimple (Microsoft Startup […]

  The Microsoft Windows 8 Unleashed program is back and I’ve volunteered to help out again. On Saturday 5/11/2013 the good folks at Crescent Solutions will be hosting a FREE all day Windows 8 event. This is a full day of great content, hands-on labs and a contest. It’s sponsored by Microsoft and Crescent Solutions. I’ll […]

Today I received an email informing me that I have been awarded a Microsoft MVP award in the category of ASP.NET/IIS. This is a very proud moment for me and I am ecstatic to have my community contributions recognized. For those unfamiliar with the program, it’s an award given by Microsoft to community leaders and […]

Today I will be speaking at the SoCal .NET Architecture users group on Kendo UI. Here is a description for the talk: In this presentation we’ll look at KendoUI, a javascript framework for building web and mobile applications. We’ll cover all the three major components of the framework, Web, Data Viz and mobile. I’ll show […]

Last night I presented at the San Francisco .NET Developers User Group on Knockout JS with ASP.NET MVC4 and Web API. I had a great time there and I wanted to thank everyone for inviting me to speak to the group. Here are my slides from the presentation. Here is the Contact List application we […]

In this article I’m going to show you how to build an ASP.NET MVC web application that will allow you to upload a CSV file and display the results in a Telerik Grid. We’re going to be using two libraries to help us with this task. LinqToCsv which is going to help us parse the […]

A friend recently emailed me and asked me for advice on learning the Razor syntax. I’ve decided to create this blog as a reply in order to benefit anyone else that might have the same question. Razor is a recent addition to the ASP.NET family and provides a new syntax for defining server side code […]

Tonight I’m presenting at the Los Angeles Dot Net user group (LADOTNET). I’ll be covering Knockout JS and how you can use it in an ASP.NET MVC app.  I hope to see you there. Here are the slides and demos Slides Demo Source Code  – Play with the Demos Online Here’s a few useful links about […]

This past Tuesday, I had the opportunity to speak at another local user group, SoCal Team System. My talk was a hands on introduction to unit testing. We went over several code demos and built a simple asp.net mvc site using TDD best practice. Thanks to everyone that came out! Here is the Slide Deck and […]

This past weekended I spoke at the 4th annual LA Code Camp. I had an amazing time speaking, listening to some great presentations and interacting with lots of great people. Thanks to everyone that came to my talks! I would really appreciate feed back on my presentations. So if you attended a talk, please visit my […]