Mac Web Design and Web Development using RapidWeaver to develop a blog.
Another ASP.NET MVC View Engine similar similar to Brail, NDjango, NHaml, NVelocity, SharpTiles, Spark, StringTemplate, and XSLT.
A Web Developer IDE for those PHP and HTML Developers still looking for the right tool to develop websites and web applications.
Learn about creating RESTful routing in ASP.NET Web Forms in ASP.NET 4 using MapPageRoute, GetRouteUrl, RedirectToRoute, RedirectToRoutePermanent, etc.
I will be presenting new features in ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET 4 Web Forms at the Orlando Code Camp.
A very cool YouTube SDK for those developers interested in integrating YouTube into a website.
Learn how to develop websites and web application in Sarasota, Florida using ASP.NET MVC, DynamicData, and ASP.NET 4 Web Forms.
PHP Developers can move to MVC Website Development using CodeIgniter.
Learn how to develop Touch and Multi-Touch applications in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Sarasota Web Developers and Sarasota Web Designers can learn how to develop web applications and websites.
Sarasota Developers first meeting focusing on ASP.NET MVC Web Development, ASP.NET Web Forms, and SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ).
If you are a Microsoft Office Developer interested in developing Microsoft Office 2010 Applications and AddIns, you will want to download the free Microsoft Office 2010 Training Kit with hands-on labs and tutorials for developing Office Business Applications ( OBA ).
Florida .NET Developers can download the IIS SEO Toolkit for some free training on search engine ranking and optimization. Although the IIS SEO Toolkit will analyze all websites, including PHP, Ruby on Rails, Django, etc., you can only install the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit on a PC running IIS 7.
Download Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 Beta 1 and try out the Enterprise Library 5 Configuration Editor for configuring Unity 2.
ASP.NET 4 has a number of features that help with Search Engine Optimization in your ASP.NET 4 Websites. This ASP.NET 4 Tutorial looks at Page.MetaKeywords, Page.MetaDescription, and Response.RedirectPermanent.
Enterprise Library 5 has a new fluent configuration interface for configuring Enterprise Library 5 Application Blocks. This Enterprise Library 5 Tutorial will help Microsoft Developers learn how to configure the Enterprise Library 5 Data Access Application Block ( DAAB ).
The new Microsoft IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit helps optimize your websites for search engines. The SEO Toolkit helps analyze your website for violations, warnings, and performance problems as well as helps you with robot.txt and sitemap xml files. The IIS SEO Toolkit is an IIS 7 Module.
Another new feature in ASP.NET 4 is the ability to compress session state when using out-of-process session state storage providers like state server and SQL Server. Compressing session state will help reduce the size of serialization across the wire and increase the performance of your website.
Learn how to extend your SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 application with jQuery in Tallahassee, Florida.
Free Silverlight 4 Development Training in Boca Raton, Florida.
The Sarasota Web Developer Group is dedicated to teaching Florida Web Developers ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC 2 from scratch. If your ASP.NET Web Development skills are a bit rusty or you are new to Microsoft .NET Web Development, register to attend our first meeting!!!
The Web Developer Tools in Apple Safari 4 our hidden. If you are a web developer and wish to exploit the usefulness of the Safari 4 Web Inspector, etc., you will need to enable the Develop menu using these 4 easy steps.
Microsoft Small Basic was recently updated to v0.8 and is another useful way to teach programming to kids in addition to Scratch from MIT.
Learn iPhone Development in Tampa, Florida.
JetBrains keeps churning out new Web Development IDE's. In addition to the Python and Django IDE, PyCharm, there is RubyMine for Ruby on Rails Development and Web IDE for PHP Development, respectively.
Microsoft Patterns & Practices has released Enterprise Library 5 Beta 1 and Unity 2 Beta 1. Check out my Unity 2 Tutorials and Enterprise Library 5 DAAB Tutorials for sample code.
Download Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 Beta 1.
An overview of LINQ, Enumerable.Range, and Iterators and how they make your Microsoft .NET Developer Code that much better.
Develop PHP Web Applications on the Mac using JetBrains Web IDE, Espresso, Coda, TextMate, etc. Check out the PHP MVC Frameworks like Zend, CodeIgniter, and CakePHP. Although I will stick with the ASP.NET MVC Framework for professional development, there are some fun times ahead using Rails, PHP, and other alternative solutions.
You may have optional parameters on your ASP.NET MVC 2 Actions that you want to set to a default value during model binding. One can use the DefaultValue Attribute in System.ComponentModel or take advantage of default values in C# 4.
The Scratch Programming Language at MIT is perfect for introducing young children to the concepts of programming in a very fun and creative way. Scratch allows children to learn the basics of computer programming using their creativity and imagination to build interactive games and stories using art and music.
Learn how to use Monotouch to enable C# and .Net based applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Learn to combine the power of JQuery and WCF to create highly scalable and interactive web sites.
When you need more control over the binding of entities to your data access layer resultsets with the Enterprise Library 5 DAAB you can use a custom IResultSetMapper which operates at the IDataReader level.
A collection of Enterprise Library 5 Data Access Application Block Tutorials for those Enterprise Clients who use the DAAB for data access to SQL Server, Oracle, or other database of their choice.
Microsoft has an All-In-One Code Framework that has a lot of code samples for the Microsoft .NET Developer on ASP.NET, Entity Framework, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Services, Microsoft Office Development, and other Microsoft Technologies.
Enterprise Library 5 Data Access Application Block ( DAAB ) has an IRowMapper and IResultMapper to help Enterprise Library Developers bind classes and collections. This Microsoft Patterns & Practices Example shows creating a custom IRowMapper using MapBuilder.
If you are a Silverlight Developer in Orlando, Florida you may be interested in this Free Silverlight Development Training in February. Other Florida Web Development Training.
JetBrains sells a Rails Development Tool called RubyMine. Now JetBrains has a PHP and Web Development IDE for those doing PHP and Web Development.
Microsoft CodePlex announced they now support Mercurial Distributed Version Control System as an alternative to TFS. Using TortoiseHg is painless to install and use, and JetBrains TeamCity supports Mercurial.
Learn about the new Silverlight 4 Features and how to develop Silverlight 4 and RIA Applications with them.
Learn how to do Test-Driven Database Development using Visual Studio Database Edition from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Learn how to take advantage of Automatic Factories and InjectionFactory in Unity 2.
Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 are expected to be released on April 14, 2010 with a beta version coming as early as February 10.
If you are a Sarasota web developer or a web developer in and around the Sarasota, Florida area, please make sure you take advantage of the free training in ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC.
Learn how to use the new DAAB Accessors in Enterprise Library 5 with Dynamic SQL in part 2 of this series on Enterprise Library 5.
David Hayden is starting a new Sarasota Web Developers Group dedicated to teaching real-world web development skills in ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, DynamicData, and Silverlight.
Unity 2 and Enterprise Library 5 will hopefully be released in April or May just after Visual Studio 2010 is released. Two new features of Unity 2 that I have recently been playing with are Automatic Factories and InjectionFactory.
Join the the Sarasota .NET Developer Group for an evening social on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 6pm at Buffalo Wild Wings.
Microsoft Patterns & Practices has been working diligently on Unity 2 and Enterprise Library 5 and we are seeing all kinds of usability being added to these products. With InjectionFactory one can now use a simple lambda expression when specifying a factory for creating an object.
In Unity 2 there is the concept of Automatic Factories to allow classes or services to defer instantiation of their dependencies to the last possible moment.
Microsoft's latest release of SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, includes a ton of new and exciting things for developers. In this session we'll explore the new development tools that are native to Visual Studio 2010 as well as look at cool new things that help developers in debugging and troubleshooting projects.
Given that Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 are about to be released I would expect a great deal of coverage on them. We also have ASP.NET MVC 2, which is a part of Visual Studio 2010, that is a great topic for discussion. I also expect presentations by Florida .NET Developers on Azure, Entity Framework 4, Silverlight 4, IIS 7, etc.
Another change to help with search engine optimization in ASP.NET Websites in ASP.NET 4 is the Response.RedirectPermanent option.
In ASP.NET 4, Microsoft web developers will be happy to know that it is a bit easier to properly set these html tags using a couple of properties on the Page Class, Page.MetaKeywords and Page.MetaDescription. This makes it much easier to set the keywords and description tags from fields in a database or another dynamically generated fashion.
There is a Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) Toolkit for IIS 7 that helps you understand how to optimize your website for search engines as well as has comparison reports that help you understand how a change to the website effects the search engine optimization characterstics of your website after the change.
Just like the Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group, this group's focus will be to develop real-world development skills in a number of web development technologies of our choosing. Each meeting will build upon the meeting before, increasing your skills and confidence in web development. Homework will be provided each month and short screencasts will be created to help refresh last month't topic and maybe give you a bit of help on the homework.
ASP.NET MVC uses T4 Templates to generate controllers and views. When you add a controller or view to an ASP.NET MVC Web Application, the default controllers and views are generated via T4 Templates that sit in a directory within the Visual Studio Item Templates Directory on your PC.
Enterprise Library 5 has significantly changed in terms of the user experience, simplicity, use of dependency injection, and testability. Learn about all the new changes in configuration and application blocks and how to leverage them in your .NET applications.