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April 7, 2016
I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday in Atlanta on May 21, 2016. This is really exciting since it’s my first professional public speaking engagement.
My session is called Data Access for Performance Junkies. Subtitled “or: How I Learned to Stop Worryi...
April 3, 2016
What is Horton?
Horton is the simple database migration utility. It’s a little program that does one thing: enables versioning of database schema through SQL based migration scripts.
You’ll find a “getting started guide” in the project’s GitHu...
April 2, 2016
Versioning of your database schema is an important component of mature software development. Depending on your database system there are number of tools available to version your schema. While most are adequate for of version control, many are not...
February 25, 2016
The current versions of ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI (5.x) exists as two separate frameworks. Each has it’s own routing conventions, model binding, action filters, dependency resolver, controller factory, configuration patterns, etc. And if you dig into...
February 19, 2016
This is part 5 of a multi-part series on “fixing” some of the inherit design problems with ASP.NET MVC.
Part 1 - Introduction
Part 2 - The View Engine
Part 3 - View Model Conventions
Part 4 - Routing and URL Generation
Part 5 - Feature...