Jason Rowe

Be curious! Choose your own adventure.

Thoughts on technology and leadership

  • Learning RavenDB from Raccoon Blog

    I’m starting a new project that will require RavenDB. I’ve been to a user group which gave an overview of RavenDB and read some of the docs. Now I’m going to walk through the official sample project Raccoon Blog to learn more. The first thing I’ll look for is how does the app expect RavenDB […]

  • NetMsmqBinding Brain Dump

    I started experimenting with WCF’s NetMsmqBinding and found the abstraction to be a bit tricky. WCF takes care of all the MSMQ details and all you need to do is define the contract and do configuration. The following are some notes about that process. Links msmq wcf and iis getting them to play nice AutoFac […]

  • Right Click Add To Path

    I do lots of installs on my windows machine and got tired of having to change the path environment variables manually. I created a AddPath.exe that will do this for me and added a short cut to the right click context menu. In one right click I can get this result: Here is how it […]

  • ejabberd offline messages

    The following is how I created a custom ejabberd module to POST offline messages to a web application. I should mention this is not production ready I’ve only just started working with Erlang and the XMPP server ejabberd. The main reason I’m experimenting with XMPP is to provide apple push notifications once a user closes […]

  • Strophejs ejabberd IIS Setup

    This is a simple guide for getting strophe.js, ejabberd, and IIS all working together on a local dev machine. This assumes you have IIS 7.5 installed and are familiar with the basics of IIS Manager Step 1: Download and install ejabberd. The install is straight forward and the default configuration has everything you need. During […]

  • Getting back into JavaScript

    The last time I did any serious JavaScript was around the time Sizzle was added to JQuery, Google Chrome was brand new, and MarketWatch.com started using canvas charts. Note: Here is a quick overview of JavaScript that is as short as possible, but explains every major feature. I would also recommend following the 2ality website […]