Monthly Archives: August 2011

On Updating Records with Object (Non)Relational Mappers in F#

I’m delivering a talk on NoSQL and F# at the F# User Group in Cambridge, MA in a few weeks. As I started prepping my old C# and NoSQL presentation for an F# makeover, it didn’t take long for me … Continue reading

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On Creating an Orchard Module without Having to RTFM

Recently, I created my first Orchard module. Of course, rather than read the manual, I learned by copying the code for an existing plugin. So if you’re like me and you take a code-first approach to learning, read on as … Continue reading

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On Free Orchard Hosting with Bitbucket and AppHarbor

If you’re not familiar with the Orchard Project, you should be. Orchard is an open source, mostly-CMS framework built on top of ASP.NET MVC. I say mostly-CMS because the project has goals of becoming more of a generalized component framework. … Continue reading

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