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This last week over a 7 day period, I went to Munich, Cairo and Dubai. I presented in three keynotes and did a total of 10 sessions. I crossed 12 time zones and missed my kids. I talked to/with/at about 3000 people. I'm utterly shattered. I took some video while I was travelling with my Creative Vado HD and slapped it into Windows Live Movie Maker just now. Here's my trip montage. You could call this either "The Glamourous Life of a Technical Speaker" or "If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo" or "Scott needs to learn to say No." It was great fun, I spoke at VSOne in Munich. I talked about .NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC. We also had a nice Nerd Dinnner . Then I headed over to Cairo Code Camp and the turnout was...

While I (really) unplugged in December of 2009, you can access a nice calendar of all my 2009 posts (as well as other years) at this link . In 2008 I published a Greatest Hits post that I will keep updated, but here's a list of links to the posts I most enjoyed writing this last year. I hope you find some of them useful, and perhaps you missed one or two or you just started reading recently and this 2009 "Greatest Hits" Post will catch you up on the stuff I was thinking about this year. General Geekery Painful Reminder: Focus on Core Competencies (and Back Stuff Up) 10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers FizzBin - The Technical Support Secret Handshake Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 - First-Pass Must-Haves Low Bandwidth...

While I was at PDC last week in Los Angeles I got to present an ASP.NET MVC 2 presentation. Phil has been home playing with his new baby so I was thrilled to be able to give a presentation on his behalf. I gave the talk immediately after the Day 2 keynote a few minutes after they announced that they were giving all attendees custom laptops. This talk was a (virtually) no slides, just demos talk. I showed some new ASP.NET MVC 2 features, some tips and techniques that aren't/weren't ASP.NET MVC 2 specific. I also mentioned some community projects that are doing some cool things in the ASP.NET MVC space like MVCContrib and MVCTurbine . You can watch the HD version of the talk using Silverlight Smooth Streaming 1280x720 here or the non-HD...

All of the talks at this year's Norwegian Developer's Conference were recorded, which is always a treat. I did four talks as well as a live .NET Rocks show. It was a crazy week. I also recorded a half-dozen great podcasts. Three are already live on Hanselminutes and I've got more in the hopper coming soon. The HaaHa Show - Hacking with Phil and Scott In this one, Phil is a hacker and he keeps breaking my websites. I fix them, and he breaks them again. Watch movie . .NET Rocks - Live! With Carl, Richard, Scott and Phil. This is a really silly show and was entirely content-free. ;) Watch movie . The Magic of Astoria - ADO.NET Data Services Me talking about REST and SOAP and ADO.NET Data Services. Watch movie . Making Your Blog Suck...

I posted the month before last that the Mix08 Sessions, mine included, were up and available at http://sessions.visitmix.com . I posted links to the MP4, WMVs and other downloaded versions at the time as well. The Silverlight versions were the same versions, so there wasn't really a compelling reason to use Silverlight. What I didn't know, however, is that they (the powers that be) not only recorded the slides and demos, but also had cameras going at the same time. They did some post processing (on hundreds of sessions) and those new "dual stream" sessions are up and available online in Silverlight. One stream is a camera on me, and one is the slides and demos. I'm fairly physical, so I really prefer my talks if you can...

A number of folks wanted the code from my talk at Mix, specifically the "complete application" example with CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) so here it is. It's nothing pretty to look at, but it makes a number of points with ASP.NET MVC : It uses the Default Routes to do everything. It uses a ViewUserControl to avoid duplication in a Form. It includes the PagedList<T> that makes Linq to SQL easier in grids. It's insanely simple. There's like nothing there and it works well. It uses lambdas to generate URLs like: Html.ActionLink<ProductController>(c => c.Edit(p.ProductID),"Edit") Which says "if someone were to call Edit with ProductID as a parameter, what would the URL look like?" The...

All the sessions from Mix are up on http://sessions.visitmix.com/ for your viewing pleasure. I had a total blast giving the ASP.NET MVC Talk . The energy was really good and the crowd (of around 600, I hear) was really cool. You can download the MVC talk in these formats: ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Mix 08 - Silverlight ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Mix 08 - WMV ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Mix 08 - iPod ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Mix 08 - Zune ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - PowerPoint (PPTX) Comment on the ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Talk I think the sound is a little quiet, so I had to turn it up some. It's better turned up a bit so you can hear the interaction with the crowd. Here's some of the code from the talk you might be interested in. I'll post the rest...

Well, I think I've got my schedule down for the first half of this year. Here's what I've got so far. TechReady6 - MS Internal Event, Feb 11-15 in Redmond ( Nerd Dinner on Weds !) Mix08 - ASP.NET MVC Framework - March 5-7 in Vegas Boise Code Camp - Keynote: "Community and the Big Blue Monster" - March 9 in Boise Devscovery - Keynote: "I Am ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions and So Can You!" - April 1st in NYC MVP Summit - I'll talk if someone will listen - April 14-17 in Seattle ALT.NET Seattle - Open Spaces - April 18-20 in Seattle PNPSummit - Keynote: "Je suis ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions et ainsi vous pouvez vous!" (joke) - May 6-8 in Quebec City DevTeach Toronto - Keynote: "Are you tired of hearing about .NET yet? Well,...

Release today are four new screencasts about the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions by various members of the ASP.NET team. You can get them immediately at the same page as before, at the bottom: http://www.asp.net/Downloads/3.5-extensions/ . Every video is available in numerous formats, and note that this also includes re-encoded versions of my Intro to MVC Screencast in a pile of formats including an iPod/iTouch compatible format , as well as ones for the Zune and PSP and a utterly unwatchable ;) 40 meg 3GP one for 3G Phones . We also have included Audio-Only downloads in five different formats, so complain not, Dear Reader! We've got your back. I expect to wait less than 5 minutes before my first snarky reader lives the obligatory " what about Ogg...

Cool, looks like I'll be speaking at CodeMash next year in Ohio. "CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Held January 10-11, 2008, at the lush Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to attend a world-class technical conference amid Ohio's largest indoor waterpark." There's a great lineup of folks from many disciplines already , including my new co-worker Jesse "Silverlight" Liberty , not to mention Bill Wagner, Neal Ford, Matt Williams, and Dick Wall of Google and the Java Posse . Since it's an event that mashes many things together, I've got an idea...