Had a delightful weekend filled with two of my favorite topics at the moment-
- ASP.NET MVC Framework
- Ruby on Rails
Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group
Thursday night we had the Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group Meeting which consisted of a wonderful review of production ASP.NET MVC Code as well as the wonders of T4 Template Code Generation to help with building forms-over-data, ASP.NET MVC database-driven web applications. A truly wonderful event with a great turnout of 75 developers. Looking forward to next month's meeting: Introduction to jQuery with ASP.NET MVC.
Tampa Day of Ruby
On Saturday, I spent all day at Kforce at the Tampa Day of Ruby, which was just a wonderful eye-opening experience for a focused Visual Studio and C# developer like myself. Learned a lot of wonderful things about Ruby, Rails, Cucumber, RSpec, TextMate, JetBrains RubyMine, and development on my MacBook Pro in general. The fact that I can develop on my Mac, use a nice Rails IDE like RubyMine, and learn a new dynamic language like Ruby has me really excited about learning all of this new technology. This is a great addition to my knowledge of the ASP.NET MVC Framework which I currently focus on for web application development. I am really liking the whole Model-View-Controller thing right now :)
Ruby and Rails Books
This weekend I picked up two new books to help with my education on Ruby and Rails:
ASP.NET MVC Books
I am really looking forward to reading the above after reading several books on the ASP.NET MVC Framework:
Expect a lot of posts on both the ASP.NET MVC Framework and Ruby on Rails in the upcoming months.
David Hayden