Technorati Tags: Hardware,Woodworking,Maker Sometimes you need to do something different, crazy, out of the usual. A couple weeks ago while I was filming some courseware for AppDev my director John Wilson told me about his site www.CrazyButAble.com and the Stella Amp. Basically it’s a circuit board, a bunch of resisters, transistors, LEDs and switches that you have to break out the soldering iron to put together. The idea is to take the bag of parts, follow the instructions and you get a guitar amp ......
This week was my 2nd visit to CodeMash in Sandusky OH, where I spoke on Building with the Microsoft Data Stack. We covered a lot of ground and had a great conversation about the various choices a developer faces regarding which technologies and formats make sense, including LINQ, Entity Framework, OData, Web API’s and more. We built a session explorer and then worked with EF 5 in Model first and in Code First modes with Database Migrations. I’ve posted the code and deck to http://bit.ly/bqtCodeMash13 ......