Microsoft 70-486: Design and implement routes

Exam Objectives

Define a route to handle a URL pattern, apply route constraints, ignore URL patterns, add custom route parameters, define areas

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications - Objective 3.4
Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 (OReilly) - Chapters 1 (§ on Routing), 14 (Advanced Routing)
Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 (WROX) - Chapter 9 (Routing)
MSDN - ASP.NET Routing
MSDN - RouteCollection Class
My Github repo with example code

Microsoft 70-486: Control application behavior by using MVC extensibility points

Exam Objectives

Implement MVC filters and controller factories; control application behavior by using action results, view engines, model binders, and route handlers

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications - Objective 3.5
Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 (OReilly) - Chapter 14 (Advanced Routing)
Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 (WROX) - Chapter 15 (Extending MVC)

Custom Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC

An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Extensibility

ASP.NET MVC Routing Extensibility

ASP.NET Application Lifecycle

Creating a custom route handler in ASP.NET MVC

DefaultControllerFactory in ASP.NET MVC
Custom ASP.NET MVC ActionResults
A Custom View Engine with Dynamic View Location
Custom View Engine in ASP.NET 5 (vNext) and MVC 6 

Creating your own MVC View Engine For MVC Application
ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binder

My example code on GitHub

I beat filters and action results to death in a previous post for Objective 3.3

MIT 6.006 Intro to Algorithms

Resources:

• MIT OpenCourseware Site for this course: MIT OCW
• Textbook:  Introduction to Algorithms (often referred to as "CLRS")
• Instructors manual for CLRS
• YouTube playlist: youtube.com
• GitHub repo for solutions and such: MIT6.006
• Relavant HackerRank challenges:
• Sorting: Insertion, Merge, Counting
• Graphs: Dijkstra
• Tons on Dynamic Programming (DP): Knapsack, Increasing Subsequence
• Khan Academy series on algorithms

Migrating AppEngine Datastore Entities to a SQL Database: Jenkins Automation

In two previous posts I laid out the process for extracting the entities from the Google AppEngine datastore and then loading them into Azure SQL.  While this process was successful, it was also a bit labor intensive.  I felt pretty certain that the process could be automated, so I set out to script it out and run it from Jenkins.

My initial goal was to complete the entire process, from initiating the datastore backup to pushing to Azure, without modifying the existing app in any way.  So, while the most straight forward way to backup the enties periodically is with a (shocker) cron job, I wanted to try to trigger the backup from outside the app.

Berkeley CS61B - Data structures (Projects)

Back in May I worked through the Data Structures class through UC Berkeley.  I got the homeworks finished, but I put off working on the projects right away.  In August I got projects 0 and 1 finished.
In late October I finally got around to finishing Project 2.  Finally, in early December I finished Project 3 (I got sidetracked working through MIT's Intro to Algorithms class... and doing like, a billion HackerRank challenges lol)