I am currently reading this interesting article over at MSDN on the MVC framework that is being developed by the asp.net people. To someone who has been using the ColdFusion based MachII for several years, this is pretty interesting stuff as I’m now making the transition across.
Perhaps ironically, at least from a certain point of view, the Star Wars theme song was playing as I entered the premises of Microsoft’s Heroes Happen 2008 event.
I wondered, had the empire turned into rebels (in their own view)? Who is the new empire to rebel against? Or were they just blissfully aware of this angle? Continue reading »
I have just discovered the Dojo DHTML and AJAX toolkit. It’s an absolutely great piece of work, and for someone who’s been hand coding the functions to perform asynchrous calls for creating dynamic web pages it looks like it can take a lot of the basic, mundane work away. At the same time, it should also increase stability which is always a good thing - lots and lots of hours have gone into testing the functions.
Furthermore I really like the html effects/ widgets, especially so the container functions that will allow for frames-like interface using Divs.