I was fortunate enough to attend Microsoft’s MIX conference for the first time this year. I learned a ton, jotted down hundreds of ideas for my projects, and had some valuable discussions with a lot of smart people.
Obviously you have to attend in person to network, but fortunately all the videos and slides are being made available online. Even for attendees this is great for review, but also because you inevitably miss a ton of sessions because of the schedule.
At the very end, I attended a great session by the co-founder and developer of Agile Zen, Nate Kohari. It’s a unique project management web app written in ASP.NET MVC 2 and jQuery. Nate’s the sole developer and this is his major product. It’s a business that charges for certain levels of usage, not a free-to-use or open source app created for fun. It was refreshing to go through something more in line with my own goals. See the video and slides for yourself.
Some of the technology Zen is using:
- ASP.NET MVC 2
- jQuery & jQuery UI
- JS.Class (OO JavaScript)
- NHibernate ORM
- Spark View Engine
My plan is to convert Out of Eggs to ASP.NET MVC 2, then explore some of these other technologies for use within it and other projects I’m currently working on.
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