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Andrew Siemer's Blog Enterprise Web Applications, ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL Server, Architecture, & Writing

Aug 14

Well its official. I have given up my job at Dell as the chief architect for dell.com and moved to Clear Measure. Read more here!

http://www.andrewsiemer.com/post/155/i-left-dell-and-moved-to-clear-measure

Posted On Friday, August 15, 2014 3:37 AM

Jun 12

Today is my first day in the land of backbone.js

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I am semi-excited to say that today is my first day into the land of backbone.js. This will of course take me into many other new javascript-y areas. As I have primarily been focused on building backend systems for the past many years…with no focus on client side bits…this will be all new ground for me. Very exciting! I am sure that this endeavor will ......

Posted On Monday, June 11, 2012 2:02 AM

May 12

NDepend v4 is out

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In the next few days I will be taking a look at NDepends latest greatness! You should too. http://www.ndepend.com/NDep... A big feature for me that is quite interesting is LINQ to CQL. Very exciting. Good job guys ......

Posted On Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:28 AM

Jul 10

Building Distributed Applications in ASP.NET MVC at MvcConf 2010 on 7/22/2010

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Next week Thursday I will be speaking at MvcConf. This is a virtual, free conference that has attracted some very heavy hitters MVC hitters to come and chat about their voodoo. This should be interest sting. http://mvcconf.com/ Below is the abstract and TOC for my presentation. If you think I missed something or am watering down the presentation please ......

Posted On Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:27 PM

Apr 10

ASP.NET MVC Cookbook – public review

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I have recently started writing another book. The topic of this book is ASP.NET MVC. This book differs from my previous book in that rather than working towards building one project from end to end – this book will demonstrate specific topics from end to end. It is a recipe book (hence the cookbook name) and will be part of the Packt Publishing cookbook ......

Posted On Monday, April 19, 2010 1:46 PM

Feb 10

$15 off C# in Depth 2nd Edition

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If you like C# at all then you know that Jon Skeet (writings, blog, StackOverflow) is the man when it comes to this language. Just look at his StackOverflow flair!!! He is the top dude by a long shot in C# and has been for a long time. His latest book “C# in Depth 2nd edition” is currently available in the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) and ready ......

Posted On Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:07 AM

Jan 10

Can you help me formulate a TOC for an ASP.NET MVC Cookbook

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Hey there everyone. I was recently tasked to pitch a book to my publisher. As a first step I need to come up with an outline for the Table of Contents. This book is the standard cookbook style with an added focus on the MVC side of ASP.NET. I have been poking about at other similarly styled books to get some ideas. I think comparing ASP.NET Web Forms ......

Posted On Friday, January 15, 2010 5:17 PM

Jan 10

VirtualDNUG.com a virtual .net users group

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Hey all! I am finally going to put my full steam into setting up my VirtualDNUG users group. With the help of the good folks over at ineta (they are providing a LiveMeeting license for us) I am hoping to host a great environment for learning. I will probably start off with topics on ASP.NET MVC and the various side projects that surround that world ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 5, 2010 3:33 PM

ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action conducting a public review

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Since I enjoyed the first edition of the ASP.NET MVC in Action book I figured I would jump on this second edition of this book and framework as quickly as I could. I just read this post from Jeffrey Palermo: http://jeffreypalermo.com/b... Which basically states that they are actively working on the next ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 5, 2010 1:54 PM

Jan 10

NBuilder article just submitted to DotNetSlackers.com

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I just finished the first article to a two maybe three part mini-series on NBuilder for DotNetSlackers.com. NBuilder is a great little tool for generating your objects for you. Often times you will create an application that is dependent on data or a set of hydrated objects for it to work or for you to be able to test your application’s UI, etc. Sometimes ......

Posted On Monday, January 4, 2010 11:34 AM

Dec 09

Scrum on a Page

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Some while back I had a chance to work with the good folks at Neudesic. They presented us with the concept of Scrum on a Page. I never received the soft copy of this document and so I finally decided to create one. Click the image below to get the full size image! Scrum on a Page describes most of the really important details about Scrum, who is involved, ......

Posted On Wednesday, December 30, 2009 6:18 PM

Scrum on a Page

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Posted On Wednesday, December 30, 2009 6:17 PM

Dec 09

Book review: Brownfield Application Development in .NET

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The first question you may have in reading the title to this post is what is a Brownfield application? The book opens up a discussion on this topic with this opening line: “An industrial Brownfield is a commercial site contaminated by hazardous waste that has the potential to be reused once it’s cleaned up. To a software developer, a Brownfield Application ......

Posted On Monday, December 28, 2009 4:26 PM

Nov 09

Javier Lozano’s interview for DotNetRadio is now available!

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Hey all. Just wanted to let you know that the interview that I did with Javier Lozano (lozanotek.com) is now available on DotNetRadio! This was a pretty hefty interview so I had to cut it in half. In the first half of the interview we discussed the following points. How and why was ASP.NET MVC created? What are the pain points of ASP.NET Webforms? What ......

Posted On Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:18 PM

Nov 09

Send in questions for upcoming guests and get DotNetRadio SWAG

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Gil Zilberfeld from TypeMock: As you may know by now (from my tweeting or by looking on the DotNetRadio schedule listed on the site) there is an upcoming interview with Gil Zilberfeld from TypeMock. He will be on the show at 5am PST. Please send in your TypeMock and unit testing questions for him. The submitters of any questions that I use on the show ......

Posted On Monday, November 16, 2009 12:44 PM

Nov 09

DotNetRadio.com - Podcast #2 – interview with Atif Aziz creator of ELMAH

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http://dotnetradio.com/arch... Andrew sits down with Atif Aziz. Atif Aziz is a senior IT business analyst at Cargill International and an ex-Microsoftie. His primary focus is helping customers move to the .NET Framework. He speaks regularly at Microsoft conferences and can be reached through his web site. You can find out more ......

Posted On Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:47 AM

Nov 09

Podcasting has been more fun than I had anticipated

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Going into the whole podcasting adventure was something that I didn’t know if I was ready for or not. I won’t lie, it has taken a LOT more time than I had initially estimated. But getting the opportunity to meet and interact with the people that I have has been wonderful. I thought setting up interviews, given that the site is new, would be difficult. ......

Posted On Friday, November 13, 2009 5:26 PM

Nov 09

Interviewing Sara J Chipps 11 Nov 2009 (tomorrow) at 7am

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Hey all. I wanted to let you know that I am going to be interviewing Sara J Chipps (of www.girldeveloper.com) tomorrow at 7am. We will be discussing all sorts of programmer goodness from making your personal projects a reality (such as Sara’s http://bundl.it project), agile development, commenting your code, and your responsibility as a developer to ......

Posted On Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:46 PM

Nov 09

Just interviewed Atif Aziz for the DotNetRadio podcast

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I just got through interviewing Atif Aziz (@raboof on twitter – foobar spelled backwards!) probably most known (at least to me) for his ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) contribution. We discussed ELMAH, ELMAH’s Veracode Application Security Rating which made OWASP top 10 in 2007 and SANS-CWE top 25, Fizzler, Jayrock, BackLINQ, LINQBridge, ......

Posted On Sunday, November 8, 2009 11:04 AM

Nov 09

Interviewing Javier Lozano 7 Nov 2009 (tonight) at 8pm PST

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Hey all. I wanted to let you know who was slated for the next interview - Javier Lozano. Javier is a .NET consultant in Des Moines, Iowa. He's an ASP.NET MVP and MCSD specializing in ASP.NET, system architecture, and training. Javier is also a co-founder of the Iowa .NET Users Group. On his blog you can find posts on ASP.NET, architecture, design patterns, ......

Posted On Saturday, November 7, 2009 4:26 PM

Interviewing Javier Lozano tonight at 8pm PST

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Posted On Saturday, November 7, 2009 4:24 PM

Interviewing Javier Lozano tonight at 8pm PST

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Posted On Saturday, November 7, 2009 4:23 PM

Nov 09

Interview with Ben Scheirman co-author of ASP.NET MVC in Action on DotNetRadio.com

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I recently sat down with Ben Scheirman (co-author of ASP.NET MVC in Action) for my first interview on my new show DotNetRadio. It was quite a talk! We covered the following points: An introduction to Ben Scheirman and how he got into web development Bens path through various web technologies such as ColdFusion, PHP, Ruby, and ASP.NET A brief discussion ......

Posted On Thursday, November 5, 2009 9:56 PM

Nov 09

Just finished editing the audio for the Ben Scheirman interview

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Hey all. I wanted to take a moment to let you know that I just finished editing the interview with Ben Scheirman as well as piecing together the over all DotNetRadio podcast. I will write the summary post that goes with the podcast and get it up and available this evening. Andy ......

Posted On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 5:52 PM

Oct 09

Interview with Ben Scheirman coming soon to DotNetRadio.com

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This morning I had the chance to speak with Ben Scheirman. We chatted for roughly an hour or so discussing how he entered into the web development industry, going on the road to teach ASP.NET MVC in its early days, his book ASP.NET MVC in Action, and his thoughts on the use of the MVC framework. We discussed some patterns and tools for testing, tools ......

Posted On Sunday, October 18, 2009 10:16 PM