December 2016 – Development With A Dot MVP

Another year is over, time to review what I did this time… so here it goes:

Was awarded MVP again! All right!!!
Started a list of portuguese sites on software development;
Presented on Elasticsearch at the first NetPonto gathering in Aveiro, here;
Did a presentation on Elasticsearch at the MVP Western Europe Community Open Day, in Rome;
Was a speaker at the 2016 TugaIT conference in Lisbon; here is my presentation;
Hosted one SQLPort event at Fusion 2.0, its LXXXVI gathering, and the first in Aveiro;
Released my pet project, Postal.NET, to GitHub;
Released a fluent validation framework for JavaScript also in GitHub;
My article on Entity Framework Core made the cover of the August release of the portuguese development magazine Programar;
Finished my series on Interception in .NET;
Did a couple of posts on .NET Core/ASP.NET Core/Entity Framework Core:

My first “physical” book came out, Entity Framework Core Cookbook;
Some of my contributions to NHibernate were released as part of NHibernate 4.1.0.

Some trends:

A lot of .NET Core, and not a single post on Web Forms!
Some of my classic topics carried on, like Visual Studio Tips, Entity Framework Pitfalls and NHibernate Pitfalls
Only one post on SharePoint
No book reviews

Not all was good, though… was unable to finish on time an article for a development magazine… and was late on delivering another ebook… and couldn’t start another book, due to pure lack of time… more news on the first two next year, hopefully!

Next year I imagine I will be writing more and more on .NET Core and specifically ASP.NET Core. Probably some Elasticsearch and Docker (new!) too. Some “classic” topics will have more contents soon:

Azure and AWS will probably pop up too. Too soon to tell!

Anyway, I wish you all an excellent 2017! Thanks for visiting me, keep dropping by! Winking smile

Some of you may be aware that my new book for Packt Publishing is out! It is titled Entity Framework Core Cookbook – Second Edition because it was meant to be the second edition of Entity Framework 4.1: Expert’s Cookbook. In fact, it is mostly a full rewrite.

It is organized in chapters:

Chapter 1: Improving Entity Framework in the Real World

Chapter 2: Mapping Entities

Chapter 3: Validation and Changes

Chapter 4: Transactions and Concurrency Control

Chapter 5: Querying

Chapter 6: Advanced Scenarios

Chapter 7: Performance and Scalability

Appendix: Pitfalls

When I started writing it, .NET Core was still in early RC1. Things changed a lot from RC1 to RC2 and then again to RTM, so I had to revisit all chapters in the end. It was a pity that EF Core 1.1 was released shortly after the book was closed, because I could have talked about it too. Also, there are things that I could have covered, like extending Entity Framework Core, but there were so many of them! Smile Maybe in a future time!

Those of you who are interested can get a copy from the Pack Publishing site or from other sellers, either as an e-book or in hardcopy.

I want to thank everyone at Packt Publishing, namely Chaitanya Nair, Merint Mathew and Siddhi Chavan for their professionalism and support!

Month: December 2016

2016 in Review

Entity Framework Core Cookbook – Second Edition