Well, it is about time we ( Tim , Chris and myself) actually made this announcement. We will be doing a MVC bo ok with O'Reilly titled 'Programming MVC'. We are super excited and super pumped to get this out the door. All three of us are huge fans of the MVC framework and know that this is...

Just wanted to send a message out there to anyone that is going to be in the Raleigh/Durham area this week. I will be giving 2 talks this week. One at TriNug and another at the Raleigh Code Camp . If you are in the area and want to stop by to heckle me, please do. Info on the 2 sessions TriNug - Taking...

It is time for this months installment of Chicago Alt.Net meeting. You can register here and get more information from our new site (thanks Sergio) at www.chicagoalt.net . Meeting Information The Different Views of ASP.NET MVC 6:00 pm Pizza and networking time 6:30 pm The default ASPX view engine in...

One of the reasons I've been mucking with NHaml is the upcoming meeting of the Chicago ALT.NET group. The plan is to talk about NHaml and Spark (and maybe Brail ), comparing equivalent implementations of a simple website written in ASPX, NHaml and Spark. The meeting is on November 12 th , see registration...

It turns out the team over in Redmond has decided that the .Net logo needed a little sprucing up. They have put together a pretty slick new logo and it was unveiled at the PDC. The new logo will be referred to as the Wave. Here are a few links that talk about the new logo. Link 1 Link 2 Till next time...

I want to invite any of you who are within a few hours of Des Moines, Iowa to attend the second Iowa Code Camp on November 8th.  The first Iowa Code Camp back in May was a huge success. From Derik's write-up : Yesterdays event was awesome.  They had about 125-150 people show up for the...

I thought I would just drop a little note on some speaking engagements I will be doing over the next month or so. Oct 30th - Lake County (IL) .Net Users Group - Gorking the Asp.Net MVC Framework Nov 12th - TriNug - Raleigh .Net Users Group - Taking tests to the next level with Mocks (will dive into AutoMockers...

It's so rare to find interesting group meetings up here in Suburbia that I can't pass the chance to attend new ones. As Micah Martin announced , the Software Craftsmanship Group was created and the first meeting happens soon. One of the topics for the evening will be Ruby Kata . Should be fun...

It is that time of year again, the time where Microsoft hands out the MVP awards. This time round both myself (C#) and Michael Neel (aka ViNull) (asp.net) were awarded the MVP. This is pretty cool and I hope we can live up to the MVP'ness Till next time,

The October 2008 meeting of out user group will be held next week, Wednesday the 8 th . The chosen topic for this month was AOP . Core: An Aspect Oriented Business Objects Framework 6:00 pm Pizza and networking time 6:30 pm Learn about aspect-oriented design patterns and how they can be used to quickly...