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Getting to grips with MVC
A few posts back I listed goals I wished to achieve over the next six months. Currently I am looking in to the Microsoft MVC Framework. I have started by watching Scott Hanselmans' four screen casts over at www.asp.net, these give a pretty good introduction of the framework and what you get out of the box with Visual Studio 2008 with the MVC framework extensions installed. There is also a screen cast from MIX08 here which covers most of the same material, but works as a once over refresher. Jeff Palermo also has a good demonstration on dnrTV. I have found in the past that it is easier to learn about something if you have a set of questions to ask, the natural process of researching the answers leads to a better understanding of the subject matter. So here are a few simple questions I have asked myself.
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Does anybody re-write old projects?
We have finally finished our migration to SQL 2005 at the weekend. That is 2 migrations to Windows 2003 and 2 migrations to SQL 2005 as well as upgrading our main accounting package. We started on Friday evening, did the main work during Saturday and the testing Sunday, so everyone here is a bit tired now. We have not been able to undertake any development work for the past 2 months because of this upgrade, but now it is over I can get back to what I love; writing code. This lead me to wonder with all the new technology coming out of MS at the moment, what are other peoples stance with older but still useful projects. Do you re-write the old Intranet to encompass Linq etc...
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CCNet up and running
It has been a few weeks since my last post, so apologies for that. I have finally passed MS exams 70-292 and 70-296 so I am now an MCSE on Windows Server 2003 at last; hence the disappearing act.