Sevket Seyalioglu

I know this topic is very hot, so I decided to write here about it.

What  I would generally ask in interview for those positions (technically) are the following?

Knowledge regarding:

• Latest trends in technology around the world
  • For me you got to be in the look for latest and greatest
• SOA and types of SOA
• WCF, Service Bus & types
• Big Data
• Cloud computing & providers and what is going on in that world
  • I prefer Azure
• Design patterns (specifically gangs of four)
• Unit Testing (I go in some detail here)
• Agile (Scrum to be specific)
• TFS
• TDD, DDD
• IoC

Well those are the most critical to me.

If I want to cut it short, I start with definition of code coverage and the frameworks used. A seasoned person will know this and this generally tells me how skilled the person is.

Really awesome and really simplified now….

• http://json2csharp.com/
• http://jsonclassgenerator.codeplex.com/
• http://json.codeplex.com/
• http://james.newtonking.com/  [The man behind all of those]

Ohh before I forgot, this is a nice tweet by .NET Team for James.

From the free and proven IoC containers/frameworks, please let me know which ones you prefer to use and what makes you choose that one instead of the others?

• Castle Windsor – Castle Project (http://docs.castleproject.org/Windsor.MainPage.ashx)
• Ninject (http://www.ninject.org/)
• StructureMap (http://docs.structuremap.net/)

Thanks in advance for your inputs.

From msdn magazine article (a bit old but valid) : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff898427.aspx

Don’t you ever wonder to print out that whiteboard or have it emailed to you?

We often take photos of the drawing and it makes sense only if the drawing is not too larges.
Not to mention that those pens smell bad often times and they go low in ink etc when you need it most.

Here is a solution (expensive solution though $1000.00+)

Wanna buy? Try this: http://www.fatcatalog.com/pd/34630/electromagnetic-interactive-dual-pen-whiteboard-with-hot-keys-88-diagonal

It is actually not difficult to move your asp.net application to Azure even if you are using Sessions.

This is just because of the services offered by Azure Cache. In the end, you only need to make few changes your web.config and you will be running your session through distributed cache which is provided by Azure Cache.

In simple terms, the following is the only thing you need to do:

<sessionState  mode=”Custom” customProvider=”DistributedSessionProvider”>
<providers>
<add name=”DistributedSessionProvider”
type=”Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache.DistributedCacheSessionStateStoreProvider, Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache”
cacheName=”default” applicationName=”Contoso”
useBlobMode=”true” />
</providers>
</sessionState>

Please read more @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg185682

I still can’t believe there is still no support for Azure in Dev 11 / .Net 4.5

There are ways to do so but not nice yet.
I would like to get the bits to publish my .Net 4.5 ASAP!

Building a new tool for personal use which can become commercial later on (so many alternatives already out there in market anyway) where my “My Documents” to be synced with the blob account using sync framework.
I am totally amazed with the amount of work Microsoft did for sync framework, it is really awesome.
Very well done and most problems are just simplified.

Starter blog/code for this is: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Synchronizing-Files-to-a14ecf57

Next: Syncing database to SQL Azure using sync framework (I see lots of work done around this only)

Finally SevDer ORM+ had a long way so far and almost ready.
I would like to share the first  preliminary screens.
Tool will be completed by tonight/tomorrow I hope.

Here you just need to select the profile or just start building one.

Very simple profile setup..

Code Generation based on selected Profile (ORM)

Here you go with code generation, ORM kicks the way you need!
As you see even it generates ASCX files (I will in the future add ASPX option and MVC/RAZOR too, but not yet)