Nerddinner and a Free Book!

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.