/// <summary>Add the Chosen people</summary>
public static void AddPersons(List<Person> persons)
{
_theChosen = new List<Person>();
_theChosen.Add(_johnPapa = new Person
{
FirstName = "John",
LastName = "Papa",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://johnp.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@john_papa",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Husband, father, and Catholic enjoying every minute with my family. Microsoft Regional Director, Evangelist, speaker, author, and Pluralsight trainer.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_danWahlin =new Person
{
FirstName = "Dan",
LastName = "Wahlin",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://danw.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@danwahlin",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Chief Architect at Wahlin Consulting. Provide consulting & training on jQuery, HTML5, ASP.NET, SharePoint. Husband & father, like to write and record music.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_wardBell = new Person
{
FirstName = "Ward",
LastName = "Bell",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://wardb.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@wardbell",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "V.P. of Technology at IdeaBlade. Speaks often on client application development issues to anyone who will listen. Likes sociology, history, poetry, and ridiculous clothes.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_hansFjallemark = new Person
{
FirstName = "Hans",
LastName = "Fjällemark",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://hansf.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@hfjallemark",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Freelancing developer & designer based in Sweden. I spend most of my time implementing usable and attractive UX in HTML5 or Silverli.. no wait, just HTML5:) ",
});
_theChosen.Add(_jimCowart = new Person
{
FirstName = "Jim",
LastName = "Cowart",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://jimc.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@ifandelse",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Husband, father, architect, developer, tea drinker. Opinions are my own. Unless they're good",
});
_theChosen.Add(_ryanNiemeyer = new Person
{
FirstName = "Ryan",
LastName = "Niemeyer",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://ryann.contoso.com/",
Twitter = "@rpniemeyer",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Coder, tester, father, and husband. Never short on ideas. Love to learn and collaborate.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_scottGuthrie = new Person
{
FirstName = "Scott",
LastName = "Guthrie",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://scottg.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@scottgu",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "I live in Seattle and build a few products for Microsoft",
});
_theChosen.Add(_steveSanderson = new Person
{
FirstName = "Steve",
LastName = "Sanderson",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://steves.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@stevensanderson",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Also known as Steven Sanderson",
});
_theChosen.Add(_aaronSkonnard = new Person
{
FirstName = "Aaron",
LastName = "Skonnard",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://aarons.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@skonnard",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Changing the way software professionals learn. President/CEO of Pluralsight.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_fritzOnion = new Person
{
FirstName = "Fritz",
LastName = "Onion",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://fritzo.contoso.com",
Twitter = "",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "A co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Editor in Chief.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_johnSmith = new Person
{
FirstName = "John",
LastName = "Smith",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://johns.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@onefloridacoder",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Christian .NET Dev & Orlando .NET User Group VP; 4,5,6-string bass player.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_scottHunter = new Person
{
FirstName = "Scott",
LastName = "Hunter",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://scotth.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@coolcsh",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Program Manager at Microsoft on web technologies such as Azure, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, Entity Framework, NuGet and more...",
});
_theChosen.Add(_madsKristensen = new Person
{
FirstName = "Mads",
LastName = "Kristensen",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://madsk.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@mkristensen",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Program Manager for Microsoft Web Platform & Tools and founder of BlogEngine.NET",
});
_theChosen.Add(_howardDierking = new Person
{
FirstName = "Howard",
LastName = "Dierking",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://howardd.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@howard_dierking",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "I like technology...a lot...",
});
_theChosen.Add(_elijahManor = new Person
{
FirstName = "Elijah",
LastName = "Manor",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://elijiahm.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@elijahmanor",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "I am a Christian and a family man. I develops at appendTo as a Senior Architect providing corporate jQuery support, training, and consulting.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_estebanGarcia = new Person
{
FirstName = "Esteban",
LastName = "Garcia",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://estebang.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@EstebanFGarcia",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "TFS | Visual Studio ALM Ranger | Scrum | .NET Development | Solutions Architect at @AgileThought | @ONETUG President | UCF Knight",
});
_theChosen.Add(_shawnWildermuth = new Person
{
FirstName = "Shawn",
LastName = "Wildermuth",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://shawnw.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@ShawnWildermuth",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Author, trainer, software guy, Braves fan, guitar player, Xbox maven, coffee addict and astronomy fan.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_peteBrown = new Person
{
FirstName = "Pete",
LastName = "Brown",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://peteb.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@Pete_Brown",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Microsoft XAML and blinky lights guy. Father of two, author, woodworker, C64.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_timHeuer = new Person
{
FirstName = "Tim",
LastName = "Heuer",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://timh.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@timheuer",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "I work on XAML client platforms at Microsoft and trying to be the best dad/husband I can be when I'm not working.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_julieLerman = new Person
{
FirstName = "Julie",
LastName = "Lerman",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://juliel.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@julielerman",
Gender = "F",
Bio = "Vermont Geekette, .NET (and Entity Framework) Mentor/Consultant, Author, MS MVP, INETA Speaker, Vermont.NET User Group Leader",
});
_theChosen.Add(_glennBlock = new Person
{
FirstName = "Glenn",
LastName = "Block",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://glennb.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@gblock",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Father, Husband, Spiritualist, Software geek, Change agent, REST Head",
});
_theChosen.Add(_scottHanselman = new Person
{
FirstName = "Scott",
LastName = "Hanselman",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://shanselman.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@shanselman",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Tech, Diabetes, Parenting, Race, Linguistics, Fashion, Podcasting, Open Source, Culture, Code, Ratchet, Phony.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_jesseLiberty = new Person
{
FirstName = "Jesse",
LastName = "Liberty",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://jliberty.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@JesseLiberty",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Telerik XAML Evangelist",
});
_theChosen.Add(_ericBarnard = new Person
{
FirstName = "Eric",
LastName = "Barnard",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://ebarnard.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@EricBarnard",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Technologist and Entrepreneur trying to find my where my path and the world's needs cross",
});
_theChosen.Add(_daveWard = new Person
{
FirstName = "Dave",
LastName = "Ward",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://dward.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@encosia",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Microsoft Regional Director",
});
_theChosen.Add(_mikeCallaghan = new Person
{
FirstName = "Mike",
LastName = "Callaghan",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://mcallaghan.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@walkingriver",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Mike has been developing software professionally since 1995, primarily in Microsoft environments.",
});
_theChosen.ForEach(p => p.ImageSource =
(p.FirstName + "_" + p.LastName + ".jpg").ToLowerInvariant());
_hansFjallemark.ImageSource = "hans_fjallemark.jpg"; // get rid of 'ä'
persons.AddRange(_theChosen);
}
// Update an existing person
// PUT /api/persons/
public HttpResponseMessage Put(Person person)
{
Uow.Persons.Update(person);
Uow.Commit();
return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.NoContent);
}
/// <summary>Add the Chosen people</summary>
public static void AddPersons(List<Person> persons)
{
_theChosen = new List<Person>();
_theChosen.Add(_johnPapa = new Person
{
FirstName = "John",
LastName = "Papa",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://johnp.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@john_papa",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Husband, father, and Catholic enjoying every minute with my family. Microsoft Regional Director, Evangelist, speaker, author, and Pluralsight trainer.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_colleenPapa = new Person
{
FirstName = "Colleen",
LastName = "Papa",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://colleenp.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@colleenpapa",
Gender = "F",
Bio = "Hard working wife and mother",
});
_theChosen.Add(_danWahlin =new Person
{
FirstName = "Dan",
LastName = "Wahlin",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://danw.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@danwahlin",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Chief Architect at Wahlin Consulting. Provide consulting & training on jQuery, HTML5, ASP.NET, SharePoint. Husband & father, like to write and record music.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_wardBell = new Person
{
FirstName = "Ward",
LastName = "Bell",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://wardb.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@wardbell",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "V.P. of Technology at IdeaBlade. Speaks often on client application development issues to anyone who will listen. Likes sociology, history, poetry, and ridiculous clothes.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_hansFjallemark = new Person
{
FirstName = "Hans",
LastName = "Fjällemark",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://hansf.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@hfjallemark",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Freelancing developer & designer based in Sweden. I spend most of my time implementing usable and attractive UX in HTML5 or Silverli.. no wait, just HTML5:) ",
});
_theChosen.Add(_bradGreen = new Person
{
FirstName = "Brad",
LastName = "Green",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://bradg.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@bradlygreen",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "I work at Google where I manage AngularJS and Google's internal sales productivity applications. I run barefoot. I'm a dad.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_igorMinar = new Person
{
FirstName = "Igor",
LastName = "Minar",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://igorm.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@igorminar",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Software geek changing the web with angularjs.org",
});
_theChosen.Add(_mikeWoodring = new Person
{
FirstName = "Mike",
LastName = "Woodring",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://mikew.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@mcwoodring ",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "VP of Developer Content - Enterprise Software at Pluralsight",
});
_theChosen.Add(_jimCowart = new Person
{
FirstName = "Jim",
LastName = "Cowart",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://jimc.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@ifandelse",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Husband, father, architect, developer, tea drinker. Opinions are my own. Unless they're good",
});
_theChosen.Add(_ryanNiemeyer = new Person
{
FirstName = "Ryan",
LastName = "Niemeyer",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://ryann.contoso.com/",
Twitter = "@rpniemeyer",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Coder, tester, father, and husband. Never short on ideas. Love to learn and collaborate.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_scottGuthrie = new Person
{
FirstName = "Scott",
LastName = "Guthrie",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://scottg.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@scottgu",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "I live in Seattle and build a few products for Microsoft",
});
_theChosen.Add(_steveSanderson = new Person
{
FirstName = "Steve",
LastName = "Sanderson",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://steves.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@stevensanderson",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Also known as Steven Sanderson",
});
_theChosen.Add(_aaronSkonnard = new Person
{
FirstName = "Aaron",
LastName = "Skonnard",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://aarons.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@skonnard",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Changing the way software professionals learn. President/CEO of Pluralsight.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_fritzOnion = new Person
{
FirstName = "Fritz",
LastName = "Onion",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://fritzo.contoso.com",
Twitter = "",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "A co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Editor in Chief.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_johnSmith = new Person
{
FirstName = "John",
LastName = "Smith",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://johns.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@onefloridacoder",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Christian .NET Dev & Orlando .NET User Group VP; 4,5,6-string bass player.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_scottHunter = new Person
{
FirstName = "Scott",
LastName = "Hunter",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://scotth.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@coolcsh",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Program Manager at Microsoft on web technologies such as Azure, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, Entity Framework, NuGet and more...",
});
_theChosen.Add(_madsKristensen = new Person
{
FirstName = "Mads",
LastName = "Kristensen",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://madsk.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@mkristensen",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Program Manager for Microsoft Web Platform & Tools and founder of BlogEngine.NET",
});
_theChosen.Add(_howardDierking = new Person
{
FirstName = "Howard",
LastName = "Dierking",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://howardd.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@howard_dierking",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "I like technology...a lot...",
});
_theChosen.Add(_elijahManor = new Person
{
FirstName = "Elijah",
LastName = "Manor",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://elijiahm.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@elijahmanor",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "I am a Christian and a family man. I develops at appendTo as a Senior Architect providing corporate jQuery support, training, and consulting.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_estebanGarcia = new Person
{
FirstName = "Esteban",
LastName = "Garcia",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://estebang.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@EstebanFGarcia",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "TFS | Visual Studio ALM Ranger | Scrum | .NET Development | Solutions Architect at @AgileThought | @ONETUG President | UCF Knight",
});
_theChosen.Add(_shawnWildermuth = new Person
{
FirstName = "Shawn",
LastName = "Wildermuth",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://shawnw.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@ShawnWildermuth",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Author, trainer, software guy, Braves fan, guitar player, Xbox maven, coffee addict and astronomy fan.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_peteBrown = new Person
{
FirstName = "Pete",
LastName = "Brown",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://peteb.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@Pete_Brown",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Microsoft XAML and blinky lights guy. Father of two, author, woodworker, C64.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_robEisenberg = new Person
{
FirstName = "Rob",
LastName = "Eisenberg",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://reisenberg.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@EisenbergEffect",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Chief Architect at Blue Spire Consulting, Inc. and director of the Caliburn.Micro and Durandal projects.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_timHeuer = new Person
{
FirstName = "Tim",
LastName = "Heuer",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://timh.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@timheuer",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "I work on XAML client platforms at Microsoft and trying to be the best dad/husband I can be when I'm not working.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_julieLerman = new Person
{
FirstName = "Julie",
LastName = "Lerman",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://juliel.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@julielerman",
Gender = "F",
Bio = "Vermont Geekette, .NET (and Entity Framework) Mentor/Consultant, Author, MS MVP, INETA Speaker, Vermont.NET User Group Leader",
});
_theChosen.Add(_glennBlock = new Person
{
FirstName = "Glenn",
LastName = "Block",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://glennb.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@gblock",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Father, Husband, Spiritualist, Software geek, Change agent, REST Head",
});
_theChosen.Add(_scottHanselman = new Person
{
FirstName = "Scott",
LastName = "Hanselman",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://shanselman.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@shanselman",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Tech, Diabetes, Parenting, Race, Linguistics, Fashion, Podcasting, Open Source, Culture, Code, Ratchet, Phony.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_jesseLiberty = new Person
{
FirstName = "Jesse",
LastName = "Liberty",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://jliberty.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@JesseLiberty",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Telerik XAML Evangelist",
});
_theChosen.Add(_ericBarnard = new Person
{
FirstName = "Eric",
LastName = "Barnard",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://ebarnard.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@EricBarnard",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Technologist and Entrepreneur trying to find my where my path and the world's needs cross",
});
_theChosen.Add(_daveWard = new Person
{
FirstName = "Dave",
LastName = "Ward",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://dward.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@encosia",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Microsoft Regional Director",
});
_theChosen.Add(_mikeCallaghan = new Person
{
FirstName = "Mike",
LastName = "Callaghan",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://mcallaghan.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@walkingriver",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Mike has been developing software professionally since 1995, primarily in Microsoft environments.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_reyBango = new Person
{
FirstName = "Rey",
LastName = "Bango",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://rbango.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@reybango",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Delivering HTML5 & JavaScript babies. Web dev lover at Microsoft.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_johnSonmez = new Person
{
FirstName = "John",
LastName = "Sonmez",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://jsonmez.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@jsonmez",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "I make the complex simple.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_meganRussell = new Person
{
FirstName = "Megan",
LastName = "Russell",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://mrussell.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@megbruss",
Gender = "F",
Bio = "Lover of all things new and creative. Advocate of education. Accepts all challenges. Fitness Junkie. Health Nut. Ballerina. Teacher. Editor. Marketing. @pluralsight",
});
_theChosen.Add(_craigShoemaker = new Person
{
FirstName = "Craig",
LastName = "Shoemaker",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://cshoemaker.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@craigshoemaker",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Technical Evangelist for all things awesome. Host of Polymorphic Podcast. Author for @pluralsight & @CODEmagazine",
});
_theChosen.Add(_jasonSalmond = new Person
{
FirstName = "Jason",
LastName = "Salmond",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://jsalmond.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@bruthafish",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "Husband to a beautiful wife, father of four boys, bass singer, Acappella junkie, Pluralsight editor, the new XML.",
});
_theChosen.Add(_keithSparkjoy = new Person
{
FirstName = "Keith",
LastName = "Sparkjoy",
Email = "*****@*****.**",
Blog = "http://ksparkjoy.contoso.com",
Twitter = "@keithbrown42",
Gender = "M",
Bio = "CTO and cofounder of Pluralsight, providing hardcore tech training for both software developers and IT pros alike.",
});
_theChosen.ForEach(p => p.ImageSource =
(p.FirstName + "_" + p.LastName + ".jpg").ToLowerInvariant());
_hansFjallemark.ImageSource = "hans_fjallemark.jpg"; // get rid of 'ä'
persons.AddRange(_theChosen);
}