I'm pleased to announce that my latest Pluralsight course has been released: .NET Micro ORMs [http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/dotnet-micro-orms-introduction] . If you're looking for an ORM that is simple, lightweight, and still lightening fast, then this course if for you. I start the course with a discussion of what a Micro ORM is and why you might want to use one. I also layout some of the common counter-arguments you hear against using a Micro ORM and examine th...

I'm currently working on my third course for Pluralsight [http://pluralsight.com/training/Authors/Details/steve-michelotti]. Everyone already knows that Scott Allen [http://odetocode.com/] is a "dominating force [http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130710-905773.html]" for Pluralsight but I was curious how many courses other authors have published as well. The Pluralsight Authors page - http://pluralsight.com/training/Authors – shows all 146 authors and you can click on any author's page to se...

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation at last week's CMAP code camp. All code samples and slides can be found here [https://github.com/smichelotti/TypeScript-presentation]....

A few months back, Ryan Niemeyer [http://www.knockmeout.net/] posted about a simple editor pattern for Knockout.js [http://www.knockmeout.net/2013/01/simple-editor-pattern-knockout-js.html] (anyone doing any significant Knockout development should be subscribing to his blog [http://www.knockmeout.net/]). Historically, I have used the "protected observable" which Ryan outlined in a post in 2011 [http://www.knockmeout.net/2011/03/guard-your-model-accept-or-cancel-edits.html] . In short, there a...

Thanks to everyone to attended my presentation on Web API [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HlnC74UGHE] at dotnetConf [http://live.dotnetconf.net/]. It was a great virtual conference and I hope to participate in more of them in the future. Code samples and PowerPoint for my presentation can all be found here [https://github.com/smichelotti/WebAPI-presentation]....