Hi! Welcome...

JP's Blog-O-Matic Sundry nonsense about robots, pies, and robots baking pies. Ok seriously. Mostly this is my outlet for programming, culture, and tech community work in Philadelphia, PA.

15 November 2009 ~ 17 Comments

Free Events: The No-Show Problem

This past weekend Roz Duffy, Kelani Nichole, and I hosted our second Barcamp Philadelphia at the University of the Arts. It was, by just about any measure, a success.
One issue we’ve struggled with over the past two years is whether or not to charge an entrance fee. The spirit of barcamp, in one sense, is [...]

01 November 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Hornget, Why I think it needs binaries

Today I learned about the Hornget project which is lead by Paul Cowan. Hornget attempts to solve the elusive “package manager for .NET” problem by creating a packager system for open source .NET projects.
An interesting choice the Horn project team made was to keep the repository (not the design pattern, the actual place where the [...]

17 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Git Presentation from 10/17 Code Camp

Here’s a link to my slides from my 10/17 Microsoft Code Camp talk on using Git and GitHub for .NET development. Thanks for coming out everyone!

Git & GitHub for .NET

Tags: , , ,

15 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Multipart Form Posts in .NET

Recently I decided I wanted to develop a small, lightweight Windows client to use for Baconfile, Leah Culver’s latest side project for easily uploading files to Amazon’s S3 service. Chris Wanstrath made a nice little Mac client and I thought Windows users might enjoy the same type of functionality.
After deciding on how I wanted the [...]

Tags: , , ,