Update: Some how I now have a twitter account, i’m saying nothing on how that happened.
First, sorry for the lack of updates and also the fact the blog had to be rolled back, there was a problem during an upgrade and the database decided to throw a wobbler so I had to restore from backup. I am also in the middle of my 3rd year degree examinations (3 down 1 to go) so time has been pretty scarce of late.
I start my position at NCR on the 19th and between now and then I seem to have been filling up a rather busy schedule between both work and social life. I guess I want to make the most of my last few days of “freedom” before my summer of corporate life begins.
Anyway, one of my lighter items is tomorrow. I will be attending Developer Day Scotland at Glasgow Caledonian University which has been very kindly organised by Colin Mackay. The event will see speakers from across Scotland talking on a variety of .NET and SQL Server related topics.
Barry Carr (a ex-colegue of mine) will be delivering his talk on Regular Expression (which I have actually yet to witness and I wonder if the Macbook will be aiding him this time) and another North East Scotland .NET founder Gary Short who will be presenting on The Web Client Software Factory. I will also be attending Tom Wardill’s talk on the ASP.NET MVC Framework which is of great interest to me since I have been doing quite a bit of work with the framework and I do like the features it brings to the ASP.NET dinner table.
So it’s late and I have some last minute things to catch up on before I rest, I just wanted to post this last minute item so that when I return and do a write up it wont be so out of the blue.
Anyone attending tomorrow I will possibly see there.
New Year, new projects, new challenges and also some nice new upcoming technologies. So given this is a new blog I wanted to make my first post a bit of a reference post detailing a nice new ASP.NET 3.5 Extension Project which is currently in CTP. From the Extensions information page:
The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a new release that provides new functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET in 2008. This release delivers a set of new features that target:
- Enabling High Productivity Data Scenarios - including MVC, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and dynamic data
- Supporting Test Driven Development - including a powerful and extensible MVC framework
- Creating the best server for Rich Clients - including Ajax history support and Silverlight controls for ASP.NET
Now the part that I have been very interested in is the MVC Framework for ASP.NET.
MVC stands for Model-View-Controller, it is a high-level design pattern which effectively separates business objects and data from presentation (explanation). MVC is by far a new concept in programming and it is not even new to ASP.NET. Projects like MonoRail have been developing a reliable MVC framework for quite some time so why am I interested in what Microsoft have brought to the table?
Well that is kind of like asking why use ASP.NET over PHP for me, I will happily use both but one has different features and functionality to the other. But reading through blogs from the likes of Scott Guthrie, Fredrik Normén and others I am impressed by the levels of functionality the frameworks brings.
There is little point discussing the details nor workings of the framework, I more wanted to raise awareness of it as I feel that it is a very useful and powerful development tool. However I realise that not everyone shares the view. Still it will be interesting to see how the project matures.
Links:
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview
Scott Guthrie’s 4 part tutorial
Fredrik Normén on ASP.NET MVC Framework
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