Today my toolset of choice for a quick learning session is Nancy.
Reading straight from the box
Nancy is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono. The goal of the framework is to stay out of the way as much as possible and provide a super-duper-happy-path to all interactions.
Got that? Think of it as a replacement for WebForms or ASP.NET MVC.
First in my “Learn Something New” series is Knockout, a javascript MVVM framework.
Knockout is beautifully simplistic. You define a ViewModel, bind it to your UI, and away it goes keeping the two in sync. It really is beautiful stuff for a javascript heavy UI.
Today I am introducing what I hope will be a long term project for this blog, my “Learn Something New” series.
The series will be mainly focussed on web development and learning the basics of a tool or framework I did not previously know. Where possible I will be providing all the source on GitHub and links to the project up and running on a free cloud service like AppHarbor or Heroku.
I recently decided to switch gReadie away from JSON.Net to ServiceStack.Text for it’s heavy JSON processing of the Google Reader API.
While there was no WP7 dll available in the NuGet package the source was all on GitHub, so using my recently learned Git skills, I forked the project and added my own project file targeted at WP7.
One of the most useful new tools with the latest Windows Phone SDK is the Isolated Storage Explorer.
It is a command line tool used for downloading and uploading the contents of an application’s Isolated Storage folders to either the Emulator or a Device.
There are two times when this is invaluable.