Several people have requested help understanding how to use the MongoDB provider in a real application. Turns out there's a sample available as a NuGet package Microsoft ASP.NET Identity Samples. The sample works with EntityFramework. I took the sample, and commit by commit adapted it to use the MongoDB provider. Checkout the modified sample. One thing...

After months of hard work, I've finished my first Pluralsight course! I labored to distill what I've learned about MongoDB, specifically within the .NET platform, to help others get a jump start. My favorite part was sharing how document databases remove many of the constraints that usually hamper good design within our applications. Using MongoDB with...

Tabs or Spaces, the age old debate that will likely never be settled! Fortunately, at the end of the day consistent formatting is more valuable than the rules we follow because consistency significantly improves readability and maintainability.

Anyone involved in software development is keenly aware there's never a shortage of ideas. Sometimes ideas are on the scale of a multi month development endeavor. Often they're just a small tweak to existing software. The trouble is, ideas are customarily acted upon without a second thought. The waste is debilitating. Ideas alone are merely a possible...

Hot off the press, a new paper describing how to Use Regulation As A Reason To Improve The Delivery Of Software, Not Impede It

I routinely observe projects where developers and users are busy safeguarding countless features that provide absolutely no value to anybody. In many situations people are aware but nobody will do anything about it. In other situations, they may not even know. Vestigial features sap the efficacy of systems. Take the time to curate metrics to effectively...