October 2007 Entries
So you may have heard the Alt.Net moniker being thrown around. You might have become curious enough to read David Laribee. But do you want to learn where the rubber meets the metal? Join the AltNetConf User Group and subscribe to the mailing list. This is becoming a very active group where people are asking questions about how people are using different strategies facing just about every .net (or otherwise) out there when it comes to building and testing coherent and maintainable software. Contrary...
There have been plenty of posts about the new asp.net MVC framework that was posted from the alt.net conference. There's very little that I can add to those posts other than I am really excited. Right after that Scott Hanselman (the link to the video is in this link) did a demo of possible ways the MVC could be used to along with the Dynamic Language Runtime. Not only is the MVC code in prototype, but Scott really only had a couple days to show how you could use the DLR with it, so obviously what...
So I've got this pet project of mine that I'm trying to work on in my spare time (hehehe). I started this for several reasons, mainly I need an application that I can sink my teeth into. I've gone down several paths on how to implement it, from a Javascript view to MonoRail to a smart client. I've finally settled down to using Ruby on Rails to do it. This is the most ambitious choice given my utter lack of knowlege in Ruby and Rails. So most of my posts will be focused on what I'm learning in the...
So the Alt.Net Conference is over, and let me tell you it was an amazing experience. I've been reading some of the early reactions on the blogs and had some conversations over a great lunch after the conference. Two of them that were not issues for me was the "Echo Chamber" and "Preaching to the Choir". These are legitmate and if you've been doing this for a couple years and have the expertice like Jeremy, Jeffrey or Scott Hanselman I can understand. But for these were not issues. While I've been...