Feb 1 2010

Getting Into Podcasts

Category: Personal | ToolsAlexRobson @ 04:47
Or maybe I should entitle this blog, “My Secret Shame”. I’ve got a confession to make: until this morning, I’ve listened to maybe a total of 3 podcasts… One with Roy Osherove about testing, one about ASP.Net MVC and Elijah Manor’s first jQuery podcast. Oh, the shame. I think a lot of it is that it’s difficult for me to do just one thing at a time, and it’s a lot more natural to me to stop mid-read than it is mid-listen. Also, I am a total n00b about podcasts and the best way to get them. But n... [More]

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Oct 16 2009

What I’ve Been Up To

Category: PersonalAlexRobson @ 09:50
So I haven’t blogged in … forever. Partly work has gotten pretty crazy lately, but when isn’t work crazy :) The main reason I haven’t blogged is that I’m trying to grok event driven architecture, messaging, and domain driven design while learning  NHibernate, StructureMap, MassTransit, ASP.Net MVC 2, jQuery.UI and log4net (to name a few). Oh yeah, not to mention, Jim Cowart is now attempting to enlighten me in the fundamentals of database warehousing… The great thing about being surrounded... [More]

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Jul 15 2009

Spam, spam, spam, eggs, sausage and spam

Category: PersonalAlexRobson @ 17:43
A few weeks back I noticed that comments started popping up on my blog that smelled an awful lot like spam. Well, I found out the explanation a day or so ago, there’s some terd-gobbling* doofus who’s released software that will automate posting comments to BlogEngine blogs. Fortunately, Chris Blankenship posted what I thought was a nice summary of what the software does and how which made “protecting” my blog from further spam pretty simple… I hope. Now my blog should be relatively safe and I’... [More]

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