I’ve created an (arguably) bare-minimum Visual Studio 2010 Template for getting started with MVC 3 Preview 1 using the Razor view engine and some other web goodies. I got tired of the vanilla “Welcome to MVC” homepage and I’m not a fan of the MembershipProvider abstraction and all the Account junk included by default. This template is meant to provide a bare-bones setup of Html 5 and provide OpenId authentication for users (but not full-on user management)- it’s a simple cocktail of Html5 Boilerplate and DotNetOpenAuth. The rest is left up to you to build up! Read More
The New Web App Architecture: ASP.NET MVC 3, jQuery Templating with PURE and the Json Value Provider
Over the past couple of years there has been a slow progression in the .NET web app world to fully separate out client/server interaction. Long gone are the horrible days of ViewState and Events; MVC provided a nice step to better structure web applications for powerful Web 2.0 experiences. But the barrier between client and server interaction has never really been clean- MVC markup has always been littered with C# code and there hasn’t always been widespread tools available to easily build desktop class applications in the browser. Sure, spark and haml provide alternatives, but these are essentially make a core problem easier to bear.
By far the trickiest part of building the single speed bike (and, consequently, the most fun) was building the wheel. I was a little hesitant to take on wheel assembly, but I couldn’t cop out and not try to give it a shot. It turns out, it’s rather easy and a lot of fun. Once you get the pattern down lacing the spokes is pretty straightforward, and out of all the parts of bike building this step really connects you to the bike.
As we’re getting ready to gear up for summer, my wife was looking for a new bike. I wanted to get her something cool and unique, and (selfishly) use the opportunity to indulge myself in a bike building project. I heard building a bike was a pretty straightforward process, and in a worse case scenario I’ll just bring the parts to a bike shop and have them finish it up. We knew we wanted to go with a single speed- a friend has a Trek Soho S which I fell in love with. A single speed is perfect for jetting around the city- really light and nimble. The acceleration is surprisingly easy and you hit a nice cruising speed quickly. I’m anxiously awaiting to compare this custom build with other commercial bikes. Read More
I hereby propose renaming ASP.NET MVC to just “.MVC”. It’s just so much easier to type.
