My name is Rob Conery and this is my blog. I am the Co-Founder of Tekpub.com Creator of This Developer's Life, an Author, Speaker, A bit of a malcontent, and care for many, many Open Source libraries such as Massive, SubSonic, and Manatee

Tekpub

  • Pair Coding With KnockoutJS

    I was lucky enough to get some help from Ryan Niemeyer (KnockoutJS core contributor) recently, and, like I do, I asked if I could record it. I love stuff like this: I need this to work well for the Real World, and I want to do it right.

    21 February 2013 | tekpub
  • Screencasting Like a Pro: The Script

    You have a solid idea of what you want to say - now you just have to say it. The uphill climb begins. This is part 2 of how to improve your screencasting skills.

    24 August 2012 | screencasting tekpub
  • Avoiding Messy Situations With KnockoutJS and Javascript

    Any tool can create a mess. Some seem more prone to messes then others - that's what I thought of KnockoutJS until recently when I had a chance to catch up with Steve Sanderson - Knockout's creator. We talked, I tried some different things. I've changed my mind.

    12 August 2012 | tekpub javascript
  • Speeding Up Tekpub with Sam Saffron

    Just pushed the latest drop for Tekpub - Speed: ASP.NET MVC Edition with Sam Saffron. I had a lot of fun doing this production and it's made a massive impact on our site.

    02 July 2012 | tekpub
  • The Weekend With NodeJS

    I try not to work on the weekends and instead spend the time learning something new and, hopefully, different. To that end: Tekpub jas just released Hello NodeJS. What are you doing this weekend?

    18 April 2012 | nodejs tekpub
  • Something Borrowed, Something New

    Tekpub just pushed its latest production: Hello PostgreSQL - and I invite you to take a look at some of the very compelling and interesting features this Open Source system has. No seriously - it's worth a look.

    08 March 2012 | tekpub
  • A Little Bit of My Soul Went Into This One

    OK maybe the title is a smidge dramatic - but it's the truth. I sweated over each and ever second of Tekpub's latest production and I really believe that it's the best work we've done to date. It's basically a This Developer's Life, in video.

    10 December 2011 | tekpub coffeescript
  • JavaScript Is Your Buddy

    I've always marveled at the geeks who can write good, clean Javascript. Not jQuery - Javascript. I've never cared much for the language - but my mind has been changed with all the great stuff coming out.

    02 December 2011 | tekpub javascript
  • A Fun Little JSON Murder Mystery With IE9

    This was a multi-day bug with 10 deployments behind it. I was tired, frustrated and hateful of the incessant problems Internet Explorer brings to the world. I was about to give up. To hack in Yet Another IE Workaround, when I noticed something strange in the response headers...

    24 October 2011 | tekpub javascript
  • Tekpub Update, October 2011

    Thought I would take a minute or two and update Tekpubbers out there on what's happening in the near future....

    13 October 2011 | tekpub
  • The Specialist

    One of my favorite movies of all time is Pulp Fiction. There are so many lines... so many scenes that it's hard to describe one as your favorite - but one that comes to mind often is Harvey Keitel as "The Wolf". When Ving Rhames says "I'm sending in the Wolf", you knew something good was about to happen.

    01 October 2011 | tekpub
  • Using Rails 3 to Build Tekpub

    We just pushed the latest build of Tekpub - and it's a pretty massive rewrite. I bounced between frameworks during this rewrite, eventually settling with Rails 3. A few people have asked why. Here's why.

    28 November 2010 | tekpub
  • Tekpub MVC 2.0 Starter Site

    Steven Sanderson and I just wrapped up our last episode for Tekpub's ASP.NET MVC 2 series. I don't particularly like to write "pimp posts" - but I'm making an exception in this case as we've decided to Open Source the code and I wanted to talk about what's in it.

    19 April 2010 | tekpub