Introducing Fog: A Library for Interacting with Azure from F#


Posted on - May. 14. 2012. by Dan Mohl

Fog is a library that makes it easier to use F# to interact with Windows Azure through the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. It provides functions for many of the common activities related to table storage, blob storage, and queue storage as well as servic... Continue reading →


F#, MSTest, and FsUnit 1.1.0.0


Posted on - Apr. 23. 2012. by Dan Mohl

I've been very busy with a few side projects that I plan to talk more about soon. Sadly, my blog has suffered due to these other activities, but I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about a new MSTest project template available on Visual Studio Gal... Continue reading →


Using Cassette to minify assets in an MVC3 app


Posted on - Apr. 18. 2012. by jonathancreamer

There are many packages for minifying assets in web applications. A new one written by Andrew Davey (@andrewdavey) called Cassette offers some great features that help deliver not only CSS and JS bundling and minifcation, but also Coffee, SASS, LES... Continue reading →


Backbone Contacts with CoffeeScript, MVC4 , and Web API


Posted on - Apr. 03. 2012. by jonathancreamer

Backbone.js has quickly become one of JavaScript’s premier MV* frameworks. It offers simple flexibility, and language features that just make sense. ASP.net MVC has also become one of the web’s most popular server side frameworks and the latest it... Continue reading →


TDD Best Practices: Don’t Mock Others


Posted on - Apr. 01. 2012. by derekgreer

Test Doubles play an important role in the practice of Test-Driven Development for establishing a controlled context, facilitating outside-in design, verifying component interaction, and providing overall test stability through isolation.  While... Continue reading →