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This is very basic presentation on how Web 2.0 and MVC can work together. The actual source code for this presentation is located at: http://www.codeplex.com/buggd Updated ManagedFusion.dll Source

Many people have said they don’t get these ad’s, but personally I like them.

I will be presenting September 17, 2008 at Philly .NET User Group Meeting. My talk will be on: Creating a modern, web 2.0, application with MVC and jQuery with a focus on doing this in a RESTful manor. My goal is for the developers in attendance to learn how to create a RESTful website design using MVC and implement that RESTful design on the front end with some simple jQuery. These principals will be demonstrated by creating a simple Twitter like application for sharing messages. All the source code will be available via my website at http://www.coderjournal.com after the presentation. ...

LifeHacker has a first look at iTunes 8.0. As of right now iTunes can be downloaded from Apple, but not through Apple Update yet. Doesn’t look as revolutionary as many people have been saying but it seems to be a logical update for Apple. I will update in a little bit if it works with Windows Vista x64, but I imagine given iTunes 7.0 that it will. BEWARE! Everything went find with the iTunes on Windows 64-bit except for the fact that iTunes turned on 1-Click buying for the iTunes store for some reason. If this is not your current setting you probably want to specifically check for this under. Edit - Preference - Store in iTunes. I don’t know if this is a plan for Apple to get extra revenue or if the settings just got reset because of the install of iTunes 8, but I have never had this happen before. Luckily for me I was just buying some of their Free HD Episodes.

This is pretty funny. It seems to be a story building commercial, for a future release. Possible Windows 7.

So when Google announced they had a new browser that was going to break down all the barriers of the internet and the desktop I got excited at the prospects of what they were going to do and what this new user interaction would be. Well today they finally announced the release of the browser and made it public at: http://www.google.com/chrome However after a quick inspection of the user-agent I soon realized that they didn’t create a new browser just a slight modification of Apple Safari. ...

Looks like the MVC team has put out preview release 5 of the MVC Framework today. You can get the latest version from CodePlex. Here is what I can tell has changed from the release notes. What’s New Added global registration of view engines Changed the IViewEngine interface to add the RenderParial method Added support for rendering partial views Added a parameter to specify a default option label for DropDownList controls Moved ASP.NET AJAX extension methods to a separate namespace Added helpers for RadioButton and TextArea controls and made overall improvements to other helpers. Removed helper method overloads to avoid ambiguity Added array support for action method parameters Removed the ActionMethod property from action filter context objects Added support for custom model binders Added an IActionInvoker interface Added an UpdateMode method to the Controller class Changed HandleErrorAttribute so that it does not handle exceptions when HttpContext.IsCustomErrorEnabled is false Added a new AcceptVerbs attribute Added a new ActionName attribute Known Issues and Breaking Changes Controller class now is derived from ControllerBase class Controller.Execute as removed, it is not called ExecuteCore. Controller initialization steps should be done in Initialize method now. IViewEngine interface is now responsible for finding views, not rendering them. Some overloads to some helper methods have been removed. AJAX helper methods have been moved to a new namespace. This version is incompatible with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta Upgrading from Preview 4 to Preview 5 System.Web.Abstractions and System.Web.Routing have been changed to version 3.5.0.0 Assemblies are located at %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 Derik also noticed that many of the classes are still sealed, and is requesting that the team un-seals all classes, and I agree with him. ...

I have to preface what I am about to say with a couple of things: I have a first generation iPhone I do not have AT&T or any other GSM network I am using this iPhone as a phone mostly as an iPod I use Verizon Wireless as my cell phone provider I have to say I am pretty impressed with the iPhone interface. Alot of work has been done with the user interface and making the applications very useable. But I have noticed the following problems, that wouldn’t nessisary keep me away from this as a phone, but would make me think twice about how usable it is from my point of view: ...

I just recently read Jeff Atwood’s Deadlocked! article. I just wanted to give some more insight in to the read committed snapshot so that it is not perceived as “magic”. It has some definite advantages when dealing with deadlocks, however if your code relies on row level locking you are not going to be able to use this type of reading in SQL Server. First lets talk about how you enable it. It is not a transactional isolation level, so if you set it, it will effect your whole database. You have been warned! ...

I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look and feel in my opinion and seems to work very well for an early beta. Jeff Atwood deserves major kudos. However I have had one plaguing question? Is stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site? I started thinking about this question a couple days ago, because as many of you know I have my own project, that isn’t much different functionality wise than stack overflow. As I started cataloging everything that a Web 2.0 site is suppose to consist of, the more I asked the question what is a Web 2.0 site, and is stackoverflow.com really one? ...