How do you learn? A PMP Exam Case Study

December 27, 2011 / Matt C. / Miscellaneous / No Comments

I think a team is at its best when all of it's members have an awareness of the learning methods and techniques that work best for them. Experts in the field of learning have uncovered common characteristics between novice and expert learners, such as in this study 'Novice to Expert' at the University of Milwaukee, by Barbara Daley, which takes into account the learner’s motivation, and drive for obtaining results.

learning, pmp

Custom Bookmarker with Chrome Extension

December 16, 2011 / Matt C. / Miscellaneous / No Comments

A couple days ago, I launched a “Good Reads” section on this blog, where I could quickly capture some bookmarks for blogs I read using Google Reader. I wrote a couple PHP pages to capture the URL, Title and Blog RSS Feed source using a simple GET command, and then display them using the nice jquery plugin jquery.dataTables.js

chrome

LLBLGen Pro, Entity Framework 4.1, and the Repository Pattern

September 25, 2011 / Matt C. / .NET / 10 Comments

In this post, I will use the model-first approach in LLBGen Pro designer and some custom templates to generate repository classes for LLBLGen entities. I will create a simple membership API with some table-per-type inheritance, build some code-generation templates that extend the out-of-the-box EF templates in LLBLGen to model our API after the repository pattern, make use of SQL stored procedures, extend the generated code with some extension methods; and introduce more surprises along the way.

.net, entity framework, llblgen

Hello world!

September 9, 2011 / Matt C. / .NET / 5 Comments

My name is Matt. I love lots of things, and one of these is coding. If you know me, shoot me an email and give me some suggestions on things to blog about :-). I’m looking forward to coding up some interesting projects and getting your feedback. I will also be keeping a list of my favorite books, favorite libraries and favorite tools up to date if you’re interested.

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