Rob Conery
Hi! My name is Rob Conery and I work at Microsoft. I am the Creator of SubSonic and was the Chief Architect of the Commerce Starter Kit (a free, Open Source eCommerce platform for .NET).
I live in Kauai, HI with my family, and when my clients aren't looking, I sometimes write things on my blog (giving away secrets of incalculable value).
WekeRoad | 04 Mar 2010 17:04
Rob Conery writes "....Lately I’ve been working with Mongo, creating a C# driver with Karl Seguin and Andrew Theken (and James Avery and Jason Alexander) and today I checked in some optimizations that made me really stoked and I thought I would share. In short – I think..."
Read more » Using Mongo With LINQ
WekeRoad | 23 Feb 2010 17:24
Rob Conery writes "....I’ve been building out an IPN (PayPal’s Instant Payment Notification) responder using Rails 2.3.5 recently and managed to get it to work with Mongo, Cucumber, and Pickle without mocking and by testing pure form posts to the IPN in an automated way..."
Read more » A Testable PayPal IPN with Rails 2.3
WekeRoad | 21 Feb 2010 14:39
Rob Conery writes "....One the big issues with Software as a Service is when the service disappears. You might expect this from a small company – but from Microsoft? In fairness I had lots of warning – but all in all I had about 40 videos up there – all of the MVC..."
Read more » Missing Screencasts
WekeRoad | 15 Feb 2010 19:44
Rob Conery writes "....I’ve just turned on comment moderation for my blog – the first time I’ve done so, ever. I had a policy that I won’t delete a comment unless the author was a spammer, used racial/gender/preference slurs, or verbally attacked another commenter. Lately..."
Read more » Building The Conversation
WekeRoad | 06 Feb 2010 23:05
Rob Conery writes "....In my last post I took a look at possible approaches to using NoSQL and Reporting, and many people wanted to see what this might look like in practice. In part one, below, I’ll show you ways to work with a NoSQL solution (in this case DB4O) in ways..."
Read more » NoSQL – A Practical Approach, Part 1
WekeRoad | 05 Feb 2010 06:21
Rob Conery writes "....I’m a big fan of giving relational systems the boot when it comes to persisting application data. The more I work with document (or OO) databases, the more I feel really, really dumb for doing it any other way. One question that comes up a lot in..."
Read more » Reporting In NoSQL
WekeRoad | 24 Jan 2010 21:40
Rob Conery writes "....I had an interesting experience when building out Tekpub with James Avery: I’m a tad rusty at “real world” work. The work I’ve done over the last 3-4 years has basically been instructional/tutorial based and I know the technologies well – it’s the..."
Read more » Sharpening The Saw
WekeRoad | 21 Jan 2010 03:46
Rob Conery writes "....I enjoyed reading Ian Cooper’s post on CodeBetter about the state of Alt.NET, pondering if it’s still got a pulse. I’ve thought the same thing myself and judging by some of the reactions in Twitter and in the comments – no one really seems to care –..."
Read more » Asking the Mountain To Come To You
WekeRoad | 20 Jan 2010 19:08
Rob Conery writes "....For a while now I’ve had a set of Helper classes that I’ve been routinely pulling into my projects, using and reusing like an old, ratty tshirt. And like that shirt, you might feel like you should wash them – perhaps even throw some of them into the..."
Read more » My Favorite Helpers For ASP.NET MVC
WekeRoad | 04 Jan 2010 15:00
Rob Conery writes "....It’s Javier Lozano’s fault – he sent me to http//webformsmvp.com where I read up on the latest efforts on working ASP.NET Webforms into the Model/View/Presenter pattern. The pattern is fine - but it's sort of against the grain when it comes to the..."
Read more » Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC
