Jon Galloway
Jon works at Microsoft as an Community Program Manager focused on ASP.NET MVC. He's co-author of Wrox Professional MVC 2 (working on the MVC 3 update), wrote the MVC Music Store tutorial, helped organize mvcConf, and travelled the world in 2010 teaching MVC classes for the Web Camps tour. Jon previously worked at Vertigo Software, where he worked on several Microsoft conference websites (PDC08, MIX09, WPC09), built the video player for a very large scale online sports event which happens every March, and lead a team which created several Silverlight advertising demos for MIX08. Prior to that, he's worked in a wide range of web development shops, from scrappy startups to Fortune 500 financial companies. He was an ASP.NET and Silverlight Insider, ASP.NET MVP, published author, regular contributor to several open source .NET projects. He's part of the Herding Code podcast (http://herdingcode.com), Twitters as @jongalloway and blogs athttp://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway
Jon Galloway | 17 Feb 2012 00:37
Jon Galloway writes "....Last September at //BUILD/ we announced ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview. Today we're releasing the next release on the road to ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. This release includes some great new features since the ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer..."
Read more » ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta Released!
Jon Galloway | 28 Jan 2012 08:53
Jon Galloway writes "....I've been through several laptops over the years, three in the past two years. I had an old Dell beater as a fallback, but for a while my main laptop was a Dell Latitude XT2. The XT2 seemed promising - a small laptop with a touch screen - but poor..."
Read more » ASUS Zenbook UX31 - First Look
Jon Galloway | 18 Jan 2012 00:09
Jon Galloway writes "....The ASP.NET configuration system is build around the idea of inheritance: Each Web.config file applies configuration settings to the directory that it is in and to all of the child directories below it. Settings in child directories can..."
Read more » 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance and Overrides
Jon Galloway | 07 Jan 2012 01:24
Jon Galloway writes "....Summary If you've got a WordPress blog and use Feedburner, you may notice that the posts stop updating. It's often due to a limitation on Feedburner that stops updating if your feed exceeds 512K. I wrote a simple plugin called Excerpt Old Posts..."
Read more » Excerpt Old Posts - A WordPress Plugin to get around the Feedburner 512K Limit
Jon Galloway | 25 Dec 2011 20:58
Jon Galloway writes "....Since 2007, my wife and I have been contributing a song to the Familyre Christmas compilation albums. You can download this year's for free, and you can play them all online on Bandcamp. My wife had written original songs each previous year; this..."
Read more » My wife and I recorded a Christmas song: Twelve Days of the Partridge
Jon Galloway | 15 Dec 2011 23:03
Jon Galloway writes "....I just posted about an update to my NuGet package downloader script which included a few fixes, including a fix to handle paging. That sounds boring, but wait until you hear about the trampolines. Recursion: Seemed like a good idea at the time The..."
Read more » Working around a Powershell Call Depth Disaster With Trampolines
Jon Galloway | 14 Dec 2011 18:57
Jon Galloway writes "....I previously posted a NuGet PowerShell downloader script, which is handy for downloading a local NuGet repository. There are several common uses: It's used in corporate environments where network policies prevent developers from accessing..."
Read more » NuGet PowerShell Downloader Update - Adding Failed Download Retries, Better Paging Support
Jon Galloway | 02 Dec 2011 17:29
Jon Galloway writes "....While writing up the release post for the new ASP.NET website, I started thinking about the site's changed over the years, and that lead me on a brief excursion through the Wayback Machine history of the ASP.NET home page. Here are some..."
Read more » A look back at the ASP.NET site through the years
Jon Galloway | 02 Dec 2011 06:42
Jon Galloway writes "....Back in October, I posted about the beta release of the ASP.NET website redesign at beta.asp.net. Since then, we've listened to a lot of great feedback, ruthlessly evaluated a huge catalog of content, and continued to reorganize things so you can..."
Read more » ASP.NET website redesign: Now with less Beta, more Live
Jon Galloway | 23 Nov 2011 18:06
Jon Galloway writes "....Earlier this month at DevConnections, I gave a presentation on Background Services and Agents in Windows Phone 7. The next week, I got to join Jesse Liberty on his podcast interviewing Peter Torr, a Prinicpal Product Manager on the Windows Phone..."
Read more » Leveraging Background Services and Agents in Windows Phone 7 (Mango)
