Two years ago Rob , Phil , and I released our MVC 1.0 book with the Gu helping with the big intro. I created the basic Nerd Dinner sample application ( code here ) and released the first 185 pages for free. Since the initial 1.0 release, we've had help from lots of people like Dave Ward , Andrew Aarnott and Jon Galloway on a lot of little things like JavaScript and OpenAuth support, then John V. Petersen moving us to MVC3 with Razor Views, and Peter Mourfield taking on lots of JavaScript and new features. These guys started working on a feature here and a feature there in our spare time. It's been a collaborative effort with folks dropping in, contributing here and there with long periods of silence in between. After John V. Petersen...
Such a fun time was had at Mix 11 this last week in Vegas. I only saw a few talks as I was busy presenting, but now as I sit at home on my first day back, I say to myself, Self, how can I get all the Mix videos at once? First, you can watch all the videos online at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11 Second, you can get them via RSS. Most major browsers are hiding the RSS button these days, but the discovery metadata is all still there. In IE9, for example, if you show the Command Bar, you can see the RSS Feeds for the Mix site: What's all this awesomeness? Oh, yes, it's the Mix talks via RSS with enclosures, just as you've always wanted. Now you can list the thousand ways that you might retrieve these lovely files and...
It's Day 1 of the Mix 11 conference here in Las Vegas. I work for the Web Platform and Tools (that's ASP.NET, IIS, IIS Media, etc) group and I did the Web Platform demos for Scott Guthrie's part of the keynote. A lot of people in Dev and QA worked hard all year long to make some fun and cool products and as the designated "talking head," I had just 16 minutes to make all of them (people + products) look good. I hope I did them all justice. We built a backend and a front end for Rob and my sie http://www.thisdeveloperslife.com . The show is something Rob Conery and I do moonlighting on the side (it's our hobby, not our job nor a Microsoft thing) but we needed a new site and this was a fun idea since we built the original...