Jon Galloway

Microsoft is sponsoring a series of Web Camps this summer. They’re a series of free two day events being held worldwide, and I’m really excited about being taking part.

NerdDinner is a website with the audacious goal of “Organizing the world’s nerds and helping them eat in packs.” Because nerds aren’t likely to socialize with others unless a website tells them to do it.

A couple weeks ago we did a soft release of a new ASP.NET MVC 2 Tutorial and Sample Application I’ve been working on over the past few months, the MVC Music Store. The source code and an 80 page tutorial are available on CodePlex. I’m also working on a video tutorial series for the ASP.NET website which will walk through building the application. After that, it’s time to talk about a feature length film and a worldwide MVC Music Store On Ice tour, but the plans aren’t completely set just yet.

One of my favorite features in Visual Studio 2010 is zoom. It first caught my attention as a useful tool for screencasts and presentations, but after getting used to it I’m finding that it’s really useful when I’m developing – letting me zoom out to see the big picture, then zoom in to concentrate on a few lines of code.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 were released this morning. ASP.NET MVC 2 came out on March 11, but today’s a big deal for MVC as it’s now included “in the box” with Visual Studio.

We launched a major refresh of the ASP.NET website today. It was really exciting to be a part of the update process, working with lots of very talented people including Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman. It’s a pretty major update, including: