I’m currently in the planning stages for a web application that I’m planning on building on top of the ASP.NET MVC extensions, and am trying to figure out which view engine would be best.
The three that I’ve looked at so far have been the standard ASP.NET WebForms, NVelocity and NHaml. I kinda like what I see in NVelocity and NHaml, but the documentation and support appears to be a little bit lacking. I had a hard time trying to figure out how to get started and up-and-running with either of them (though I’m sure I could figure it out if I spent more than an hour or so with either one). So for the most part, I’ve been kinda leaning towards just using WebForms.
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So, its been a long time (has it been over a year, really?) since I’ve been to one of the Dayton .NET Developers Group meetings. I got the notification last week about the upcoming meeting, and it reminded me of how much I used to enjoy going to those meetings. So I worked it out with my wife to go to tonight’s meeting.
Now, I have to be completely honest here…the biggest motivator for me in going to the meeting tonight was the fact that they were giving away free copies of Visual Studio 2008. Why was that my primary motivation? Mostly because the topic for the meeting didn’t sound exceptionally exciting: “A lap around Visual Studio 2008″. Oh no…I’ve heard that one before. A bunch of marketing speak about all of the “fabulous” new features of the IDE that make developers lives “easier”. You know the stuff I’m talking about…the designer enhancements, the wizards, the “look-how-much-I-can-do-without-writing-a-single-line-of-code” kind of presentation. Blah blah blah…I’ve heard it all before. And I was right.
Partially.
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This is as much for my own future reference as anything, but I stumbled on this today and thought it might be of interest to others as well. ThreeSharp is an open source C# library for interacting with Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service). Anyone have any experience with this? Thoughts?
I bought some DRM-free music this weekend on Amazon MP3. The experience was fantastic. Its obvious that they really put a lot of thought into the user experience when they built the site. I already have an amazon.com account, so once I decided to make a purchase, the first thing it did was ask me if I wanted to install the Amazon MP3 downloader. I installed it, provided my account information, and my download started instantly. The download was REALLY fast…I downloaded Pink Floyd’s The Wall - a 2 disc set with a total of 26 songs - for $8.99, and the download of all of the songs took maybe 5 minutes at the most (over my broadband cable connection). The really nice thing about it was not only did it download the music, but it also automatically added it to my iTunes library. Very nice. From there I was able to instantly load it onto my iPod (I don’t have mine setup to automatically sync).
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana
That quote is just fantastic on so many different levels. Take a minute to think about it and consider how many different ways it can be applied to your life this very moment.
