December 2007 Entries

Just like being there...almost.

posted @ Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:45 PM | Feedback (1)

 

Unfortunately I haven't been able to make it to any of the jazzy conferences in 2007.  There are a few that I would've really liked to have attended; altnetconf, DevTeach, RailsConf and RubyConf to name a few.  Luckily, you can find quite a bit of the content from some of these kinds of conferences online.  Just tonight I watched a really good presentation from RubyConf 2007, Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec.  There are many more I'd like to watch from RubyConf if I can find the time.  And of course the awesome MVC video from ScottGu himself at altnetconf is a must see.

So for those of you, like me, who for whatever reason can't make it to some of these conferences, here are a few good places to start:

  • Confreaks (these guys do an awesome job, giving you widescreen videos with the slides/code side by side with the presenter)
  • ScribeMedia (where I originally watched the RailsConf 2006 stuff)
  • Parleys (saw an awesome DDD video here once)
  • Google Videos (of course)

I'm sure there are many more, so leave a comment with some more good post-conference resources if you know of any.

(Hopefully my ability to join in the conference goodness will be a bit better in the coming year)

MonoRail Quickly - Screencast

posted @ Saturday, December 08, 2007 12:53 AM | Feedback (11)

 

Update: Zip file links have been updated due to the first one being corrupt!

Well it was bound to happen at some point.  My first screencast.  It's a quick walkthrough on how you can get a baseline MonoRail solution up and running.  Yeah, I know.  Everyone's talking about MS MVC these days, and I'm certainly just as excited about it as anyone else.  But MonoRail is still a very nice MVC framework that can be fully leveraged now. 

So I thought this screencast along with its accompanying zip file might help folks interested in MonoRail, or just ASP.NET MVC frameworks in general, to get one up and running quickly with everything you need (including an automated build script).

Let me know what you think!

(Thanks to my fellow LosTechies crew for hosting the screencast for me.)

Happy Coding!