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A Web API or Web application backed by a database of some sort is a pretty typical application architecture regardless of what language or platform we might be looking at.

Warning: This is a completely downer of a post.

In my last post I talked about my switch to a mechanical keyboard and in that expressed that one of my chief concerns (and reasons for not getting one earlier) was the fact that the keyboard was not ergonomic.

If you follow Jeff Atwood, then you’ve no doubt read his articles on designing the Code keyboard and his thoughts on mechanical keyboards more generally.

Although it actually became available last week, I hadn’t blogged about it yet, so correcting that oversight here… After over a year of development, what started as an abstract idea has finally come into being.

I spent more time then I had planned this weekend debugging an issue in some code I wrote, and at the end of it all, discovered a JavaScript language feature that I had read about a while ago but never used (intentionally, that is).

Spring is in there air (well, intermittently here in the Pacific Norhwest), and that means - the spring conference season is shaping up.

I had been ignoring this inconvenience for a bit because it wasn’t something that was hugely messing up my workflow…until this morning, where I needed to grab a table of stuff from a Web site and massage it into an array.

Today opens a new chapter in my experience at Microsoft - my team (and larger group) has made the move from the Microsoft-traditional individual offices to the open office layout (team rooms, more specifically).

I couple of years ago, I created the course REST Fundamentals for Pluralsight.

I realize that there are entire shelves worth of books on this subject, but enough people have asked me about my approach to juggling all of the email, meetings, and various deliverables at Microsoft that I figured I would add my 2 cents to the corpus in…

Over the past year, I’ve been wanting to blog a good bit more for a couple of different reasons - many of them completely unrelated to blogging.

I’m sitting in the airport waiting to head back to Seattle after several great days at RestFest here in Greenville, SC.

See what I just did there?

I’ve talked about this in various venues and also cover it in my Pluralsight REST Fundamentals course, but the topic of how to version RESTful services has been popping up a bunch recently on some of the ASP.NET Web API discussion lists, and my friend Dan…