Hank Wallace

Hank Wallace https://hankwallace.wordpress.com Adventures in Architecture, Agile Development, and .Net Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:51:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://s0.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png Hank Wallace https://hankwallace.wordpress.com Interesting Finds: April 10, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/interesting-finds-april-10-2012/ Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:51:55 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=209 Microsoft + ASP.NET + Open Source- This Time for Sure! – Chris Sells
The Pitch- Why Startup Presentations Fail to Get Funded – SandHill.com
WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM Release – WCF Data Services Team
The Practical Guide to Multithreading – Part 1 – Ajay Vijayvargiya
System.DateTime- Good practices and common pitfalls – David Rickard

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: March 26, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/interesting-finds-march-26-2012/ Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:13:16 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=207 Modern Web Development – Part 8 – Shawn Wildermuth
How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom – Benjamin Jackson
Windows 8: Good News for XAML Developers – Jerry Nixon

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: March 23, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/interesting-finds-march-23-2012/ Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:17:08 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=205 WCF Backward Compatibility and Versioning Strategies – Part 3 – Kausik Nag
Best of jQuery- An opinionated visual collection of jQuery interaction plugins – bestofjquery
Best practices for Web services versioning – developerWorks
Creating a jQuery Modal Confirmation Dialog in MVC3 – Primary Objects
JQuery 1.7.2 Released
Versioning REST services – Scott Seely

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: March 20, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/interesting-finds-march-20-2012/ Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:41:04 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=202 Surprising Side Effects of Rising College Costs – Erik Thauvin
Tools and Blogs for Startups – Steve Blank
What’s The Point Of Using WCF In A Web App? – Davy Brion
Introduction to using jQuery with Web Services – Andy Marshall
When to Pivot, and When to Stay the Course – Under30CEO
70 lessons I learnt in 7 days in Silicon Valley and SXSW – Nik Adhia
ASP.NET MVC3 Razor with jQuery for Beginners – Jovan Popovic
JavaScript for the C# Guy: Scopes – Shawn Wildermuth
7 Resources Every JavaScript Developer Should Know – Rob Bazinet

]]> Hank Driving me to Mac? https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/driving-me-to-mac/ Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:02:39 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=199 Microsoft recently released their Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I installed it to a virtual machine using VMware and spent all of 10 minutes looking at it, but something just doesn’t feel right about it. I’m a developer (most of the time) and don’t want any part of their touch-based startup screen. I dismissed the thought and went back to real work.

Today I saw How Real People Will Use Windows 8. My first reaction was to laugh, but this points to a real problem that Microsoft needs to address. In my opinion, there is a real difference between the user experience of a desktop OS and a tablet/smartphone OS. While touch is a nice addition, I doubt that many users will use touch on their desktops. This “mode” switch required in Windows 8, if not changed, will result in their newest OS being a failure for most users.

Microsoft is in real trouble. Are they trying to drive me to a Mac?

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: March 14, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/interesting-finds-march-14-2012/ Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:37:35 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=197 EF Code First – Tips and Tricks – Code Capers
MassChallenge- A Colossal Startup Accelerator That’s 100% Free – Forbes
7 Boston startups are finalists in SXSW accelerator – Kyle Alspach
How Real People Will Use Windows 8 – Chris Smith
How to Test Your Startup Idea in a Weekend – Rahil Sondhi

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: March 12, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/interesting-finds-march-12-2012/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:12:58 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=195 Windows Azure toolkit for Windows 8 – Hosam Kamel
Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why – Mark Suster
Replace Switch Statements with Dictionary and Func<> – Chris Surfleet

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: March 9, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/interesting-finds-march-9-2012/ Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:48:12 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=193 Install Windows 8 beta in Your System using VirtualBox on Windows & Mac – SpicyTricks
Why cross-platform mobile toolkits are a bad idea – Martin Fowler
Announcing Reduced Pricing on Windows Azure Storage and Compute – Steven Martin

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: March 8, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/interesting-finds-march-8-2012/ Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:35:41 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=191 Stanford offers more free online classes for the world – Jamie Beckett
How Amazon Web Services dominate infrastructure as a service - Tim Anderson
Introduction to the ASP.NET Web API – Stephen Walther
WCF or ASP.NET Web APIs- My two cents on the subject – Ido Faltow

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: March 7, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/interesting-finds-march-7-2012/ Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:16:44 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=189 WCF Backwards Compatibility and Versioning Strategies – Part 1 – Kausik Nag
Why start up in Boston? – Barb Darrow
Hiring Tips for First-Time Entrepreneurs – Keith Cline
SharpComments extension for Visual Studio 2010 – Sergey Vlasov
Visual Studio 11- New Features Preview – Jerry Nixon
Change Considered Harmful? – The New Visual Studio Look and Feel – Scott Hanselman
How to Hire a Programmer – Coding Horror

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: March 6, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/interesting-finds-march-6-2012/ Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:57:25 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=185 Amazon or self-hosted? – Miha Ahronovitz
A complete list of resources for METRO Windows 8 Developers – Lee Stott
View Engines in ASP.NET MVC – Jovan Popovic
Eight books for .NET (mostly) developers (mostly web) you must read – Geekbeing
New England Code Camp – March 31st – Jim O’Neil
Visual Studio ’11’ Announced – The Visual Studio Blog
MIT Online vs. Your Local College- How Will Web Learning Stack Up? – Alan Jacobs
JQuery UI 1.8.18 Released – jQuery UI Blog

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: February 17, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/interesting-finds-february-17-2012/ https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/interesting-finds-february-17-2012/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:44:05 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=182 Using EF 4.3 Code First Migrations with an Existing Database – Julie Lerman
Designing a Secure REST API with OAuth2 You Can Be Proud Of – Ahmet Alp Balkan
What’s new in WCF 4.5- UDP transport support – DotNetKicks
The New Pricing Model for SQL Azure Explained! – Cihan Biyikoglu
The Three “True” Interview Questions – Randy Guthrie

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Modern Web Development – Part 5 – Shawn Wildermuth
Camels, XAML and Silverlight is dead- Long live Silverlight 5! – Surf4Fun
SQL AZURE LOST ITS LEASE! EVERYTHING MUST GO! – Brent Ozar
What If You’re Not CEO Material? – David Cohen
What makes the Boston startup scene special – Jeff Bussgang

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: February 15, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/interesting-finds-february-15-2012/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:35:09 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=174 AWS, Y Combinator and the Startup Boom – Stephen O’Grady
The Cost of Living in the Cloud – Matt Kiser

]]> Hank Interesting Finds: February 13, 2012 https://hankwallace.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/interesting-finds-february-13-2012/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:13:45 +0000 http://hankwallace.wordpress.com/?p=171 Getting Started with User Experience Design
What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services: Part 1 – Liam Cavanagh
Amazon S3 Price Reduction
Client-Side MVC Frameworks Compared – Paul Hammant
Windows 8 and the future of XAML: The Windows Runtime (WinRT) – Microsoft Malaysia
Amazon Web Services Customer List (Case Studies)
Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
Be Careful When Comparing AWS Costs…

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