Ahhh... now I remember, I've got a blog! I knew I would find it hard to post to this thing, so hard to find the time! Maybe now the ski season is over (bring on next year!) I can find a bit more time.
Castle
As I have posted before, I have been experimenting with the castle stack for a little while now and I really enjoy it. Although, at the same time I just feel something is a miss...
Maybe it was my decision to go with brail and the debugging nightmare that came with it. In hindsight, I probably should have gone with the AspView engine - It just seems to make more sense to me.
Maybe it's the fact that documentation is hard to find. Sure, it's out there... but it seems to be scattered all over the place (at least that's been my experience). You can't blame them thou, it is an open source framework and I know I'd be a darn shot happier coding than I would be writing documentation!
I must say there is a great mailing list thou... questions tend to get answered there fairly quickly.
ASP.NET MVC Framework
I'm extremely excited about the ASP.NET MVC Framework that Microsoft is developing, I'm hoping it'll bring the best of the Castle and ASP.NET worlds together.
Scott Guthrie announced it the ASP.NET MVC Framework here (read up on it if you haven't already). At one stage of the post he says
I'll be doing some in-depth tutorial posts about the new ASP.NET MVC framework in a few weeks once the bits are available for download (in the meantime the best way to learn more is to watch the video of my Alt.net presentation).
The part I wanted focus on was - 'in a few weeks'. In my book, 'a few weeks' means 3 weeks give or take 1 week (2 max!) and it's been 24 days since Scott posted it... so hopefully, just hopefully, I'll have something to play with in a day or two. It'll also give me something to blog about! ;-)
In the mean time, I've watched both ScottGu's and ScottHan's videos from the ALT.NET conference. You can find them here on ScottHan's blog. I actually had problems watching them so I downloaded them instead. You can get them here (ScottHaOnDLRandMVCatALTNET.wmv - 130mb) and here (ScottGuOnMVCatALTNET.wmv - 440mb).
Thats about all from me tonight. A few exciting things may be happening soon... but I can't tell you about that just yet. Watch this space! ;-)