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 | 02 May 2012 01:40
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Netduino Go is designed for much more than toy projects, but one has to recognize that toy projects are fun and also great learning experiences. Today, I want to take you through the process of reproducing the behavior of a famous toy that you will..."
Read more » Etching sketches with a Netduino Go
Tales from the Evil Empire | 20 Apr 2012 22:59
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Wouldn’t it be great if you could build your own stuff? Microcontrollers let you do that, but they usually require dealing with a lot of complexity and unknowns. If you’re a software developer, chances are you don’t really know how to use a..."
Read more » Electronics for developers with Netduino Go
Tales from the Evil Empire | 31 Mar 2012 04:41
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....The Pager shape that is used in Orchard to render pagination is one of those shapes that are built in code rather than in a Razor template. This can make it a little more confusing to override, but nothing is impossible. If we look at the Pager..."
Read more » Overriding the Pager rendering in Orchard
Tales from the Evil Empire | 31 Mar 2012 04:13
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....There are quite a few image gallery modules for Orchard but they were not invented here I wanted something a lot less sophisticated that would be as barebones and minimalist as possible out of the box, to make customization extremely easy. So I made..."
Read more » ZenGallery: a minimalist image gallery for Orchard
Tales from the Evil Empire | 17 Mar 2012 06:38
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....The HTML canvas has a set of methods, createImageData and putImageData, that look like they will enable you to draw transparent shapes pixel by pixel. The data structures that you manipulate with these methods are pseudo-arrays of pixels, with four..."
Read more » Drawing transparent glyphs on the HTML canvas
Tales from the Evil Empire | 02 Mar 2012 06:02
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....The Rules module in Orchard enable you to set-up “if this then that” types of rules. The system is fully extensible in terms of what “this” and “that” are of course, but Orchard comes with everything you need out of the box to set-up comment..."
Read more » My Orchard comment notification rule
Tales from the Evil Empire | 01 Mar 2012 06:14
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....TL;DR: I’m leaving Microsoft to found my own company. My involvement in Orchard continues unchanged. It’s been almost nine years. Nine years at Microsoft, first as a developer, and then as a program manager. I’ve worked on ASP.NET versions 2.0 to..."
Read more » Leaving the Evil Empire
Tales from the Evil Empire | 24 Feb 2012 07:01
Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Drivers in Orchard are responsible for taking content parts and using them to generate shapes for the rendering engine to transform into HTML. A little known fact is that there can be more than one driver for any given part. You might be wondering..."
Read more » More than one driver for a single Orchard part
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?
