Pablo M Cibraro

Apache Cordova. A new alternative for developing native apps in Win Phone 7

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:23:22 GMT

Apache Cordova is one of those projects that recently caught my attention for developing applications in mobile. This project previously known as PhoneGap was donated by Adobe to the Apache Foundation to be part of a new and attractive open source alternative...(read more)

Increasing your system reliability with the Azure Service Bus Queues

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:10:18 GMT

A common scenario for many web applications running in the cloud is to integrate with existing systems through web services (no matter the messaging style they use). Although in these scenarios, an SLA is typically used as an agreement between the two...(read more)

Authenticating your windows domain users in the cloud

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:12:06 GMT

Moving to the cloud can represent a big challenge for many organizations when it comes to reusing existing infrastructure. For applications that drive existing business processes in the organization, reusing IT assets like active directory represent good...(read more)

Debugging Node.js applications for Windows Azure

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:08:24 GMT

In case you are developing a new web application with Node.js for Windows Azure, you might notice there is no easy way to debug the application unless you are developing in an integrated IDE like Cloud9. For those that develop applications locally using...(read more)

Building Hypermedia Web APIs

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:48:00 GMT

Hypermedia is one of those concepts really hard to grasp when building Http aware APIs (or Web API’s). As human beings, we are constantly dealing with hypermedia in the existing web by following links or posting data from some forms that take us to a...(read more)

Doing DI with Autofac in ASP.NET Web API

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:09:34 GMT

ASP.NET Web API provides a very similar model to MVC for resolving dependencies using a service locator pattern. What you basically do is to provide the implementation of that service locator to return any of the requested dependencies, and that implementation...(read more)

Handling exceptions in your ASP.NET Web API

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:40:27 GMT

The Http status codes for reporting errors to clients can mainly be categorized on two groups, client errors and server errors. Any status code under 500 is considered an issue generated by something wrong on the request message sent by the client. For...(read more)

Validating your models in ASP.NET Web API

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:50:00 GMT

One of the nice things about having a single extensibility model between ASP.NET MVC and Web API is that you can get many of the great MVC features for free. Model binding and validation is one of them. A simple action in Web API controller is typically...(read more)

Integrating Backbone.js with ASP.NET Web API

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:07:54 GMT

In case you did not see the latest news, what we used to know as WCF Web API was recently rebranded and included in ASP.NET MVC 4 as ASP.NET Web API. While both frameworks are similar in essence with focus on HTTP, the latter was primarily designed for...(read more)

Hacking the browser cache with JQuery and ASP.NET MVC

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:20:05 GMT

Although JQuery provides a very good support for caching responses from AJAX calls in the browser, it is always good to know how you can use http as protocol for making an effective use of it. The first thing you need to do on the server side is to supports...(read more)

AgileSight, my new venture

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:05:33 GMT

Another important milestone in my career started three years ago when I joined Tellago . I convinced my friend Jesus to hire me, and I would eventually move to the United States with my family to work in the company. That never occurred for some...(read more)

The rise of Simple Page Applications (SPA) in Web Mobile

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:34:00 GMT

Limited connectivity is one of the main challenges in web mobile. The stateless nature of http causes that content and associated static files like scripts or images be transmitted over the wire every time a page is fully refreshed (assuming http caching...(read more)

Implementing resource oriented controllers in ASP.NET MVC

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:49:42 GMT

One common problem with the naming convention and default routing mechanism in ASP.NET MVC is that we tend to group actions in a controller for sharing an URL space. This basically leads to complex controllers with a lot of unrelated methods that...(read more)

The “Liike” project. Mobile Web guidance from Microsoft P&P

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:17:16 GMT

Microsoft Patterns & Practices has recently started a new project whose codename is “Liike” (pronounced as LEEE-keh) for delivering guidance and a reference application in the mobile web space. As many of the recent initiatives started by different...(read more)

Transform your IIS into a real-time pub/sub engine with Faye-Node

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:01:01 GMT

Faye is a simple Http Pub/Sub server initially implemented by John Coglan in Ruby, and also later ported by himself to Node.js. The version for Node.js implements the Bayeux protocol, which at first glace, many of us known as http long polling. This project...(read more)