Rob's Blog Posts for April 2012

Thinking in Git

I had the great pleasure of presenting at SEVDNUG with my son this evening. He was a wonderful asset, and a great star....

Sql Source Control from SSMS to Working Directory

I use Sql Source Control in an unconventional way: I want to commit both sql scripts and code at once....

Design Patterns for data persistence: Unit-of-Work Pattern and Repository Pattern

Design Patterns Design Patterns are names we give code constructs. We’re not usually inventing anything new, we’re just giving a name for things we’ve always done....

Demystifying Lambdas in C# 3.0

I’ve had this conversation a few times, so it seems natural that it’d evolve onto my blog in time....

Configuring other IIS boxes in the web farm

Configuring the first IIS 7.x box is far easier than IIS 6 was, but configuring multiple web servers to behave identically can be a pain....

The "real-time" web in ASP.NET MVC

The “real-time” web is one of the holy grails of software development. It’s the notion that we can provide a native experience through a browser....