Tatham Oddie

As you may have gathered from my last two posts, I’ve now joined the world of Readify. As of last Monday, I am a Senior Consultant with the organisation.

I’ll be working with them 80% of my time (41 weeks out of 52), and using the remaining time to work on my startups like www.tixi.com.au (also only a fortnight old).

I’m looking forward to my time at Readify as an opportunity to get some more corporate experience under my belt, and get access to larger projects that I wouldn’t have been able to before as an independent. It’ll also give me some more opportunities to present and engage with the community, as well as being part of a great group of consultants who I can call on for help at 3am.

Here are my slides and code from this morning’s RDN session where I presented on ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 that was released last week:

http://tatham.oddie.com.au/files/20080310-RDN-ReadiMIX-ASP.NET-MVC-Preview-2.zip

The ZIP is most useful for people who actually saw the presentation, but if you’re game jump in and download it anyway.

And some link love:

Download ASP.NET MVC Preview 2

Official ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Documentation

Official ASP.NET MVC Forums

Because Mitch couldn’t make this morning’s session, I also covered the IE8 bits briefly:

Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

Mitch’s blog post about how to implement WebSlices

Mitch’s blog post about two new IE8 activities he has created

I’ll be writing a blog post later this morning that explains WebSlices and activities for those who haven’t seen them yet as Mitch’s posts both expect you to know what they already do. He was pretty keen about implementing them in a lot of places, very quickly!

Thanks to those who made it along to this morning’s presentation. I’ll look forward to meeting some more people at tonight’s session. For those who can’t make it, the session is also being filmed.

Any questions or ideas about ASP.NET MVC, IE8 or just in general? Email tatham@0ddie.com.au

As a bit of a last minute change, I’m now going to be delivering tomorrow’s RDN (Readify Developer Network) session. These are free sessions, sponsored by Readify which we deliver every fortnight in Melbourne and Sydney. We do two sessions to make it easy for you to get along – one at 7:30am and one at 6:00pm.

Tomorrow we’ll be conducting a bit of a “ReadiMix” hot on the heels of last week’s Mix conference in Las Vegas. Even with some of our guys still on the plane home, we’ve got IE8 and ASP.NET coolness ready to demo, including live code running in real applications already. (Mitch was pretty keen!).

More details here have just been published here: http://readify.net/rdn.aspx

Session 1: ASP.NET MVC R2, presented by Tatham Oddie
What is this whole MVC thing anyway? Hot on the heels of MIX08 and last week’s release of ASP.NET MVC Preview 2, Tatham Oddie will demonstrate how to use the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern to take advantage of your favourite .NET Framework language for writing business logic in a way that is de-coupled from the views of the data. We’ll discuss the advantages to MVC on the web, the other frameworks that are available, and build an app with it – all in an hour.

Session 2 (only presented at the Sydney PM session): IE8 and Silverlight Debugging, presented by Mitch Denny
A slew of exciting new features in Internet Explorer 8 were revealed last week at MIX08, including Web Slices and Activities. Come and hear Mitch Denny show you how to implement them into your own websites and workflows. Mitch will also present a quick introduction to debugging Silverlight in .NET – not to be missed!

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