James Broome

The video footage of our recent presentation at the UK AzureNET user group is now online. The presentation is a technical deep-dive into my most recent project at EMC Consulting – a 100% Azure based solution. The original video can be viewed in HD on exposureroom.com or inline below.
The presentation outline is as follows:

What is [...]

I’ve recently been spending some time working on removing the friction in project start-up, by producing a skeleton solution for an ASP.NET MVC application, based on all the goodness that we’ve thrown into Who Can Help Me?. I ran this by my colleague Simon Brown and asked him to pull it apart and ask any [...]

I was excited when I first heard about Postmark as it answered a problem that I’ve faced on many projects in the past – how do you send “triggered” emails from your web application? By triggered emails, I mean one time, one hit emails sent to a specific user in response to a specific action [...]

This is part 4 in my series of posts about integrating the .Net open source content management system N2CMS into the Sharp Architecture demo application Who Can Help Me?.
In the first, second and third posts I

Added the N2 assemblies
Added the edit site to the web project
Created the initial content definitions
Created the database schema
Added root nodes [...]

This is part 2 in my series of posts about integrating the .Net open source content management system N2CMS into the Sharp Architecture demo application Who Can Help Me?.
In the first post I

Added the N2 assemblies
Added the edit site to the web project
Created the initial content definitions
Created the database schema

Step 5 – Adding the root [...]