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Well we started using WhatCounts/BlueSkyFactory at work and there have been some bumps in the road. We will soon be implementing changes to the LVAC website and back end which will be utilizing some of there back end apis.

I had to work with the API specialist for a little while to get all of the info that I will need to setup the work flows for email addresses in publicaster.

We have also been rolling out the dotfit kiosks which I made utilizing the following opensource software stack:

I have spent the week getting a little more in depth with MVC3 and the more I use it the more I like it. Specifically I spent more time with Models, Sql Results, controllers, and views. I spent a good deal of time experimenting with ViewBag, Model Encapsulation of multiple datasets, ViewData, and EF.

I am switching over to Drupal to learn a little about it and to give a face lift to my site. Wordpress has been pretty good to me over the last couple of years but I just wanted a change. I will be reposting the articles in drupal but in the meantime you can reach the old articles at www.codersjunto.com/wp.

Hopefully this will be a good thing. So far I am liking Drupal it seems easy enough.

Paul

Well I have been very busy with some family problems and multiple recent deaths in the family. Here is a list of what I am learning and working with lately.

1. Jquery, validator, and UI
2. backbone.js
3. lettering.js
4. date.js
5. data.js
6. mustache.js
7. node.js
8. Drupal
9. HTML5Boilerplate
10. underscore.js
11. mongodb (started with couchdb) NOSQL
12. HTML5 and CSS3
13. json2.js
14. MVC 3, LINQ, and Razor

Well that was a fun morning. I had to rebuild my build server from scratch. Here are the steps and notes
1. Take one updated Server 2008 r2 with IIS7 installed
2. Install the following (your requirements may be a little different, these steps are for a ten year old project which already was using cruisecontrol.net so it needed nunit, nlog, and nsis specifically: