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• The Value and Benefits of ASP.NET MVC

  The ASP.NET (Webforms) proposition holds firm in the light of ASP.NET MVC – its strengths are for large corporate development teams working on internally facing LOB applications. ASP.NET MVC on the other hand has an entirely different value proposition Read More... Posted 13 September 2009 15:40 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Open Source, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, Sharp Architecture

• Microsoft, Open Source and Codeplex Foundation

  Thoughts on Codeplex Foundation I’m quite surprised, in a nice way, by the announcement of Codeplex Foundation as for the last few months I’ve been shaping some thoughts on the same topic of how Open Source products can be utilised by real companies, Read More... Posted 11 September 2009 10:39 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Musings, Microsoft, Open Source

• Speeding up your Desktop Build [Part 1]

  On my current project I wanted to do a little pit stop after our 1st sprint to ensure that the solution was running as optimally as possible. We’ve fleshed out the solution structure and have pulled together all the core pieces of technology – so within Read More... Posted 09 May 2009 16:36 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Engineering Practices, Visual Studio, CodePlex, Performance, Microsoft, MSBuild, BDD

• CMS in the .NET World

  If anyone follows me on Twitter, you'll have seen my early morning rant a few weeks ago about the woeful state of CMS on the .NET platform, with particular reference to Open Source offerings. This was sparked off by the current depressing thread on the Read More... Posted 26 March 2009 14:34 by howard.vanrooijen | 15 Comments Filed under: Graffiti CMS, CodePlex, Microsoft, Oxite, CMS, dasBlog, Umbraco, N2, Open Source, SubText, Cuyahoga, Sitefinity, Kentico, dotNetBlogEngine, SiteCore

• Windows Azure – Hazy Terminology

  As I mentioned in my previous post , I spent 3 days last week on a Windows Azure Training Course, unfortunately this meant that I missed out on all the fun that was had on #comday . One of the most common questions I heard at PDC 08 after Windows Azure Read More... Posted 10 February 2009 10:42 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: Musings, Azure, Microsoft, Cloud

• LSharp in the Cloud

  Last week I attended a Windows Azure Services Platform Training Workshop, held by QA in London . Our trainer, the excellent Mr Adrian Jakeman , took myself and 12 other Microsoft Partners on a journey through the Azure Service Platform and its constituent Read More... Posted 09 February 2009 11:45 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: Musings, Events, Azure, AWS, Video, LISP, Microsoft, Cloud