Nerddinner and a Free Book!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 -
Finally! Today we're announcing something pretty dang cool: a FREE ASP.NET MVC book and a FREE sample website (talked about in that book) that's also a live working site as opposed to vaporware.
The book is the first 185 pages of a book I collaborated on with ScottGu, Scott Hanselman, and Phil Haack. The cool part is that these pages (the free stuff) are all ScottGu's contribution and are a "0 to 60" summary of getting up to speed with ASP.NET MVC from "File->New" to dependency injection.
The downloadable content is given away under Creative Commons licensing, No Derivatives - so you can share it, hand it out on the street corners, or paper your nursery with our our four foreheads :).
All of these samples revolve around Nerddinner.com - a site that the Scotts and myself created as a real-world working sample for ASP.NET MVC.
The rest of the book (shown to the right) is still in production
Nerddinner.com is the brainchild of Scott Hanselman and is, basically, an event management system that wraps in some seriously cool Ajax with Windows LiveMaps. The site is focused on getting geeks together for geek dinners, cause we need to be social and all. The code is now available up on Codeplex and can be downloaded for all to see!
I wanted to send out a massive thanks to the guys who helped design and run up the jQuery goodness on Nerddinner.com:
- Micheal Dorian Bach (super groovy CSS and site design) and
- Dave Ward (aka "Encosia" - jQuery wizard extraordinaire)
If you're headed to MIX, Hanselman will be talking about Nerddinner in his talk "File | New Company" which is Thursday at 2:30. I'll be there too - in the front row making funny faces and getting him Diet Cokes.
Great Book. Its very practical and great way to learn ASP.NET MVC with step by step tutorial. I have done the entire example and feeling great abt ASP.NET MVC.
Thanks
1) Don't know how to write hello world with MVC
2) Don't want to pay the full price for the full book
The whole book is finished - this is just one part of it (ScottGu's part).
I'm happy to hear that you'd rather buy the whole thing - it's really worth
it :). Call it what you will - it's still free and it's all for you my
friend :)
What's the point of releasing hello world chapters?
Where should I post comments I have about this chapter of the book?
So your obviously at mix and I am not....Great for you and a bummer for me. So I am on page 136 of 186 of chapter 1 and I just love it...I have been dragging my feet when it comes to converting my legacy apps to .Net because I hated webforms. I figured I would just get by with an infusion of Jquery. With the MVC framework ( integrating Jquery was a definite plus ), I think I am coming over to the darkside ;)
Obviously you have been busy with MVC, storefront, book etc, but where do you see subsonic going. Will it die by the wayside with EF? I have been reading up on which ORM/DAL framework to go with, I was going to go with subsonic but read some posts that you were done with that now that your working for darth vader and company.....just kidding, but no really....how about subsonic, what's the future hold for version 3 ??
Your videos are very inspiring, and I can only hope that you'll be employed to do them full-time, else - just crank them out whenever you can. There's just got to be an audience as captivated as I am!
Best regards,
Hampus
Nice to meet you.
I found your blog very intersting and I'd like very much to have your email to send you a proposal partnership.
I'm waiting for your reply!
regards,
Anna.
By the way you have a typo your Nerddinner.com links to http://www.nerddiner.com cool idea though!
Where should I post comments I have about this chapter of the book?
By the way you have a typo your Nerddinner.com links to http://www.nerddiner.com cool idea though!
Your videos are very inspiring, and I can only hope that you'll be employed to do them full-time, else - just crank them out whenever you can. There's just got to be an audience as captivated as I am!
Best regards,
Hampus
So your obviously at mix and I am not....Great for you and a bummer for me. So I am on page 136 of 186 of chapter 1 and I just love it...I have been dragging my feet when it comes to converting my legacy apps to .Net because I hated webforms. I figured I would just get by with an infusion of Jquery. With the MVC framework ( integrating Jquery was a definite plus ), I think I am coming over to the darkside ;)
Obviously you have been busy with MVC, storefront, book etc, but where do you see subsonic going. Will it die by the wayside with EF? I have been reading up on which ORM/DAL framework to go with, I was going to go with subsonic but read some posts that you were done with that now that your working for darth vader and company.....just kidding, but no really....how about subsonic, what's the future hold for version 3 ??
What's the point of releasing hello world chapters?
1) Don't know how to write hello world with MVC
2) Don't want to pay the full price for the full book
The whole book is finished - this is just one part of it (ScottGu's part).
I'm happy to hear that you'd rather buy the whole thing - it's really worth
it :). Call it what you will - it's still free and it's all for you my
friend :)
Great Book. Its very practical and great way to learn ASP.NET MVC with step by step tutorial. I have done the entire example and feeling great abt ASP.NET MVC.
Thanks
Nice to meet you.
I found your blog very intersting and I'd like very much to have your email to send you a proposal partnership.
I'm waiting for your reply!
regards,
Anna.