Bertrand Le Roy
Bertrand Le Roy, PhD, is a Program Manager in the ASP.NET team, specializing on Ajax. He represents Microsoft at the OpenAjax Alliance. He blogs about new and future features of ASP.NET, tips, tricks and samples for advanced and beginner ASP.NET developers and sometimes other random musings.
Tales from the Evil Empire | 30 Jan 2012 08:29
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the community. Most Open Source projects that were initiated by corporations such as Microsoft are nowadays still..."
Read more » About Orchard Governance and Microsoft
Tales from the Evil Empire | 07 Dec 2011 02:34
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Damn, Rob saw right through the PR lies of Phil Haack about the new NuGet gallery and figured it all out. Kidding, kidding. For your enjoyment and context, here is Rob’s post: http://wekeroad.com/2011/12/06/nuget-and-orchard/ Phil made a..."
Read more » What’s the deal with Orchard and NuGet? Does Orchard suck?
Tales from the Evil Empire | 05 Dec 2011 01:31
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....I’m not very satisfied with traditional database backup solutions. It seems like almost no progress was made since SQL Server 6.5 (at least for the built-in tools). They are still outputting monolithic binary backup files that only do the job if the..."
Read more » Source-controlled database backups
Tales from the Evil Empire | 26 Oct 2011 05:56
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....I'm in the process of moving the Orchard documentation site from ScrewTurn Wiki to a Mercurial + Markdown system, where revisions are managed through source control tools instead of a fully online wiki. We see quite a few advantages in doing that,..."
Read more » From ScrewTurn Wiki to Markdown
Tales from the Evil Empire | 22 Oct 2011 22:18
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....I've written several times before about image resizing in .NET and how the various built-in solutions (GDI, WPF and WIC) compare in terms of quality, speed and size. I'll put the links to my previous articles at the end of this post for reference...."
Read more » State of .NET Image Resizing: how does imageresizer do?
Tales from the Evil Empire | 05 Oct 2011 00:52
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Orchard 1.3 was released yesterday night with some really neat features that I will outline in this post. I will come back in depth on some of those with full-length posts. Let's start with the simple but super-useful ones… 1. Draft Preview Once..."
Read more » So what's new in Orchard 1.3?
Tales from the Evil Empire | 18 Sep 2011 05:54
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed the electronics posts lately. With my friend Fabien, we've been building a little handheld console from readily available parts. It's also programmable in C#, using a library that we..."
Read more » PIX-6T4, the DIY console, has an Orchard site
Tales from the Evil Empire | 09 Aug 2011 07:52
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....This is me shaving a yak. Shaving the yak, if you don't know, is what you do when a seemingly simple task necessitates many recursive and unforeseen sub-tasks in order to be carried out. The story goes like this… Let's say that I want to paint a..."
Read more » Building a simple Fritzing component
Tales from the Evil Empire | 07 Aug 2011 07:23
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....SVG definitely is an increasingly interesting skill, especially as it's making its way into HTML 5 as an officially allowed grammar inside of HTML documents. Most SVG is authored through some kind of tool, and it's absolutely the way to go for..."
Read more » Authoring SVG with a text editor
Tales from the Evil Empire | 01 Aug 2011 06:36
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....In Orchard, the UI gets composed from many independent parts. We wrote a lot of code to handle that fact without friction. It is easy to add a new part or remove an existing one without breaking anything. One ingredient in this is the placement.info..."
Read more » So you don't want to use placement.info?
