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CQRS at Jax Code Camp 2012
Continuing my CQRS world tour ...I gave my CQRS presentation at the Jax Code Camp 2012 this past Saturday. It was a great crowd with lots of representation from the wicked smart engineers at Feature[23] and others from the Jacksonville developer community...
Posted: Oct 10 2012, 12:53 AM by brian_ritchie | with 97 comment(s)
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Hosting Windows Services in IIS Presentation at JAXDUG
Thanks to everyone who came out for my presentation at the Jacksonville Developer User Group tonight. Here are the slides on SlideShare . Download the code for building your own service with self-hosted monitoring from BitBucket . You can also read my...
Web-based Farm Monitor for your Web Farm Framework Deployment
In my recent posts on scalability, I've mentioned the Web Farm Framework (WFF) as a solution for managing a farm of IIS servers. It adds a nice management Server Farm management UI into the IIS Manager. It is a nice tool, but is only accessible via the...
Posted: Sep 01 2011, 08:41 PM by brian_ritchie | with 7 comment(s)
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Using the .NET Chart API to add sparklines to your MVC site
In my last post , I introduced sparklines and showed you how to generate them using the Google Chart API . Using an external API may not be appropriate for all applications, so here is a way to generate the sparkline using the .NET Chart API. Over at...
Adding sparklines to your MVC site using the Google Chart API
Sparklines present trends and variations associated with some measurement in a very compact form. The term & concept was proposed by Ed Tufte . This form of information graphic has become very popular for dashboards. In this post, I'll show how add...
Retrieving recent tweets using LINQ
There are a few different APIs for accessing Twitter from .NET. In this example, I'll use linq2twitter . Other APIs can be found on Twitter's development site . First off, we'll use the LINQ provider to pull in the recent tweets. .csharpcode, .csharpcode...
Using extension methods to decrease the surface area of a C# interface
An interface defines a contract to be implemented by one or more classes. One of the keys to a well-designed interface is defining a very specific range of functionality. The profile of the interface should be limited to a single purpose & should...
Posted: Mar 04 2011, 09:36 PM by brian_ritchie | with 6 comment(s)
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Retrieving upcoming calendar events from a Google Calendar
Google has a great cloud-based calendar service that is part of their Gmail product. Besides using it as a personal calendar, you can use it to store events for display on your web site. The calendar is accessible through Google's GData API for which...
Populate a WCF syndication podcast using MP3 ID3 metadata tags
In the last post , I showed how to create a podcast using WCF syndication. A podcast is an RSS feed containing a list of audio files to which users can subscribe. The podcast not only contains links to the audio files, but also metadata about each episode...
Posted: Feb 28 2011, 10:28 PM by brian_ritchie | with 1 comment(s)
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Creating a podcast feed for iTunes & BlackBerry users using WCF Syndication
In my previous post, I showed how to create a RSS feed using WCF Syndication . Next, I'll show how to add the additional tags needed to turn a RSS feed into an iTunes podcast. A podcast is merely a RSS feed with some special characteristics: iTunes RSS...
Posted: Feb 27 2011, 10:32 PM by brian_ritchie | with 42 comment(s)
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