Kosmik Koding

Hey folks...

 I've been sick for the past weekend, and have finally gotten the new server online, and web-serving...  Now time for some cool advertising!

 I will be presenting in Dallas the week of December 8th, please come down and join me at the conference.  Even bring a friend!  If your a tech type person, you can't pass on this conference. By registering with the special code below you will recieve a special discount of $300 off of the conference!!  See the information below for your special code and a blurb from the Conference!

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December 8-11, 2008 Register online or call 800-280-6218 using Priority Code SPEME and receive $300 off the package of your choice.VSLive! Dallas 

For 15 years, VSLive Events have led the ranks as the trusted independent conference for .NET professionals. No other conference, no corporate trainers, no one else will compare to VSLive's standard of editorial excellence and commitment to real-world, practical information designed to take your skills to the next level. Join me and other professional developers, Microsoft product teams and executives at VSLive Dallas, December 8-11, 2008. 

At VSLive! Dallas, the old Windows/Web/SQL delineations are gone and we have 50% more breakout sessions to choose from. This improved format allows us to offer a huge range of topics, including cloud computing, WPF, ASP.NET ALM, and SQL Server Data Services.  Deep material on mainstream Web development, Architecture, and Data Management honor our tradition of supporting your production needs with today’s technology.  

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I presented last week down in Las Vegas, my session was called 'Real World ASP.Net MVC in One Hour'.  It actually lasted a bit over an hour, but I was suprised to present to a totally PACKED house!!!  I thought the room that I was in; which was setup classroom style to seat 180 people filled!!  The session had it quirks however.  MVC decided to not work nicely in front of the audience too well for some reason. But I think the points were taken.

 Since I had the server errors I have not gotten the time to get the code and database up on the site.. I appologize for this, and I should be able to get the code up sometime this weekend.

 

  -G

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Wow..   That is all that I can say.. The blog has been down, and my server had a mini-meltdown!

 I have purchased a new box to replace this server.  I got a really good deal from MicroCenter on a PC that did not have Windows installed on it.  I wish I could run this server on a non-Microsoft technology, because the Ubuntu Linux that is installed on this box looks REAL cool, not to mention that it loads quite QUICKLY....

 Anyway, I hope that the new box is online in the next week or so and I have no more blog issues...

 

  -G

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I have been trying to find some time here for quite some time to take a good look into this new product that is being previewed by Microsoft.  Well this morning I'm getting a chance to work with it.  In the breif readings that I have done on this product I am greatly impressed!  The product even quite new in it's conception is quite useful! I can see that many of my clients could greatly benifit from this technology. 

The many benifits of this new system far outweigh the downfalls! From my brief overview, the only downfall at this point to me is the fact that all of the pages are coded like the old ASP.Classic pages with imbedded code within the page.  There are still code behind pages containing partial classes however.  The many benifits include: Ease of page Addition, Plain Text URL's and Secure pages.

The way that ASP.Net MVC works is by using a new Router object behind the screens.  This allows IIS to pass a request into the .Net runtime and then the runtime passes the information about the request to the Router object; this in turn figures out what the request wants; and populates a screen to return. The great thing about this, is that a URL to search for some sci-fi books that looked like this http://www.foo.org?id=`12-3333-45-9291'&cat=12&user=12389&session=9292939-9494940-939392302-902982 could turn into this http://www.foo.org/books/Sci-Fi. I'm not too sure if you can see the usefullness of this, but I can!

Another GREAT addition is the use of the View folder that allows the .ASPX pages to hide in a directory that cannot be thought/hacked through a thoughful URL call. The Router object intercepts the calls from IIS and either returns the 404 Error page; or it renders the requested view. The view is rendered by pulling the approporate controller and view and combining the data and HTML code, and passing the information to the callers browser.  The end user knows nothing about where or how the data is located or derived from thus allowing a greater level of security within your web application.

 

I'm planning on doing a bit more digging around within this framework and I'll keep posting as I find cool information; or things change since we are only dealing with Preview #3....

 

  -NFE

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