Jon Galloway

I just posted about my experiences writing my third technical book, Wrox Professional ASP.NET MVC 3, along with Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, and K. Scott Allen. We had a general discussion on the latest episode of Herding Code with the Wrox MVC 3 book authors and Jesse Liberty, author of three dozen odd books.

Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 has been available on Amazon for a few weeks now. It's had a pretty wild ride so far, including being listed as the top selling book Programming book on Amazon, followed by the Kindle version in second place. For a few crazy days, it was one of the top 1000 books across all of Amazon - take that, Herman Melville!

I first heard about CoffeeScript over a year ago, when we talked to Chris Williams about JsConf 2010, but it's really blown up lately. The official CoffeeScript website, CoffeeScript.org, sums it up beautifully:

I just posted about the ASP.NET Daily Community Spotlight. I was going to list a bunch of my news sources at the end, but figured this deserves a separate post. I've been following a lot of development blogs for a long time - for a while I subscribed to over 1500 feeds and read them all. That doesn't scale very well, though, and it's really time consuming. Since the community spotlight requires an interesting ASP.NET post every day of the year, I've come up with a few sources of ASP.NET news.

One really cool part of my job is selecting the articles for the Daily Community Spotlight, on the home page of the ASP.NET website. The spotlight highlights a new post about ASP.NET development every day from a member of the ASP.NET community. You can find it on the home page of the ASP.NET site, at http://asp.net

I recently mentioned how I contributed C# syntax for CodeMirror; what I didn't talk about was how incredibly easy it was. I think the biggest obstacles to open source contribution are: