ASP.NET MVC and Rails

Not big post here, just a chance to recommend reading this blog post:

http://anders.janmyr.com/2010/04/aspnet-mvc-vs-rails3.html

I think he does a great job comparing the two in a positive way.

Windows 7 Series

I listened to a good podcast today of Petzold discussing Silverlight for the upcoming Windows phone.

I must say, after listening to him talk I had some encouragement for the phone and the dev environment.

I do think it was a fantastic decision to take the route of managed code with SL as the option.

I can see great opportunities for companies to build phone enabled apps for their internal as well as outward facing clients.

I do think the market is saturated with iPhone, blackberry, android, etc phones – and I’m (sight unseen here) hoping that it does better than the Zune has.

With the latest iPhone announcements that are blocking devs from using anything outside of objective-c, c++, and c I was a bit discouraged (I want to see Monotouch succeed)

Moving to JSON with Client Side Templating for Views

I was Google ‘Buzzing’ today on this and figured I’d post the same here :

My new frontier in asp.net mvc (and hopefully asp.net 4) will be implementing templates and moving to a more rich client ‘json’ experience vs. partials views.

couple of resources:

http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/509108.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2009/04/17/minimize-code-by-using-jquery-and-data-templates.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2009/05/03/using-jquery-with-client-side-data-binding-templates.aspx

http://starterkit.jsonfx.net/

http://jbst.net/

The Telerik MVC controls use JSON I think behind the scenes.  They have source code – I am interested in evaluating that as well. (I’m using their controls, I mean evaluate as in see the source and how they implement their controls with JSON – in particular their grid control)

What you might appreciate here is that you could, in theory, use this approach as your view for any backend framework.

Also, I know ExtJS has some rich controls, they are all Json related, I think Phil Haack had an article on using mvc with ext.

Basically, today, if you add for example, an item to a ‘grid’, I go behind the scenes, add it – then redisplay the grid.  In these approached, you’d literally just append a row to the grid instead.  Very interesting.   The value is going to be less traffic, as partial views create more traffic.

I see this as well:
ASP.NET AJAX And Client-Side Templates by Dino Esposito:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/magazine/cc546561.aspx

The HTML Message Pattern by Dino Esposito:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/magazine/cc699560.aspx

Of course, this all assumes you opt for a rich experience with jSON/jQuery vs. something like Flex or Silverlight 

IPodding

So this is my first iPod touch enabled blog post.

Figured Id try out the app. So bear with me while I experiment.