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 | 16 May 2012 22:11
Jon Galloway writes "....Literacy Imagine a world in which very few people knew how to read or write. You kept to certain parts of town because you couldn't read a map or a street sign. When you needed to sign a contract, you just asked what it said and had to take it on..."
Read more » Why I Taught My Daughter To Code (A Little)
Jon Galloway | 04 May 2012 20:09
Jon Galloway writes "....We're continuing the ASP.NET Authentication series (yes, I'm doing a few overlapping series, and yes, it's making me dizzy). The previous post covered Global Authentication and Allow Anonymous. This one continues with a simple tip that can be summed..."
Read more » ASP.NET MVC Authentication - Customizing Authentication and Authorization The Right Way
Jon Galloway | 01 May 2012 02:57
Jon Galloway writes "....We've got some great, free Web Camps headed your way! Web Camps are free, fun, no-fluff events for developers, by developers. Show up for the day, leave infused with a crazy amount of web dev info. Did I mention these are free? My teammate Brady..."
Read more » Upcoming Web Camps
Jon Galloway | 27 Apr 2012 12:26
Jon Galloway writes "....Many of the key Windows 8 Metro Style application features either require or can greatly benefit from a connection to online services. ASP.NET Web API is a great fit for these services, as it's tightly focused around providing HTTP services to..."
Read more » Windows 8 and ASP.NET Web API - Part 1 - Getting Started
Jon Galloway | 19 Apr 2012 02:29
Jon Galloway writes "....As I was recently updating the Wrox Professional ASP.NET book for ASP.NET MVC 4, I thought about some of the common questions, tip, and tricks I've seen over the past few years, and thought it was time for a... quick blog series! Let's start with..."
Read more » ASP.NET MVC Authentication - Global Authentication and Allow Anonymous
Jon Galloway | 18 Apr 2012 21:20
Jon Galloway writes "....I've been at Microsoft for a little over two years now, working in groups that focused primarily on publishing online content for developers. In addition to the obvious things, there's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes in creating and..."
Read more » I've joined the Windows Azure technical evangelist team
Jon Galloway | 31 Mar 2012 00:34
Jon Galloway writes "....I'm really excited by the big announcements earlier this week: The source for ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor) were released under Apache v2 license ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Web Pages, and ASP.NET MVC (which was already released..."
Read more » Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor) open source announcements
Jon Galloway | 23 Mar 2012 23:55
Jon Galloway writes "....We're concluding a six part series on ASP.NET Web API that accompanies the getting started screencast series. This is an introductory screencast series that walks through from File / New Project to some more advanced scenarios like Custom Validation..."
Read more » ASP.NET Web API - Screencast series Part 6: Authorization
Jon Galloway | 23 Mar 2012 22:51
Jon Galloway writes "....We're continuing a six part series on ASP.NET Web API that accompanies the getting started screencast series. This is an introductory screencast series that walks through from File / New Project to some more advanced scenarios like Custom Validation..."
Read more » ASP.NET Web API - Screencast series Part 5: Custom Validation
Jon Galloway | 16 Mar 2012 19:27
Jon Galloway writes "....We're continuing a six part series on ASP.NET Web API that accompanies the getting started screencast series. This is an introductory screencast series that walks through from File / New Project to some more advanced scenarios like Custom Validation..."
Read more » ASP.NET Web API - Screencast series Part 4: Paging and Querying
