One aspect of my job that I love is being able to go in front of other developers, my peers, and give presentations on the technologies that my team and I build. I’m very fortunate to be able to do so, especially given the intense stage fright I used to have. But over time, through giving multiple presentations, the stage fright has subsided to mere abject horror levels. Even so, I’m still nowhere near the numbers of much more polished and experienced speakers such as my cohort, Scott Hanselman. Always looking for the silver lining, I’ve...
Another Spring approaches and once again, another Mix is over. This year at Mix, my team announced the release of the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update at Mix, which I blogged about recently. Working on this release as well as NuGet has kept me intensely busy since we released ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM only this past January. Hopefully now, my team and I can take a moment to breath as we start making big plans for ASP.NET MVC 4. It’s interesting to me to think that the version number for ASP.NET MVC is quickly catching up to the version...
It’s that time of year again when a young man’s thoughts turn to Las Vegas! Yep, it’s another year and another Mix conference (March 15-17, 2010), but this time they’ve changed locations to Mandalay Bay. It looks like my prediction that the Mix conferences would end at Mix 09 did not pan out. ;) As I did last year, I’ll be giving two talks at Mix 10 this year, one of them with the irrepressible Scott Hanselman. What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 2 Come see and hear about the...
You don’t so much return from Las Vegas as you recover from Las Vegas. Right now, I am recovering from my Las Vegas trip. Recovering from Vegas Nose caused by the extremely dry air and massive second hand smoke inhalation. Recovering from the sensory onslaught they call casinos. Recovering from the fake kitschiness and manafactured excitement as people sit like zombies feeding machines their life savings. Yet despite all that, I still love the place. Maybe because despite the bad things, Vegas is really the Disneyland for adults with a slight bad streak inside that yearns to get...