LoI - Mar. 12 ,2009

News roundup

ASP/.NET MVC tutorial - a new ASP/.NET MVC framework is being released soon. WROX Publishing will release a book on the framework soon but you can download a 185 page end to end tutorial chapter from it now for free. Follow the link below.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/03/10/free-asp-net-mvc-ebook-tutorial.aspx

Flex vs. Silverlight - The Future of Computing. Kevin Hoyt, platform evangelist at Adobe and Sam Stokes, academic developer/evangelist at Microsoft Corporation held a debate in February at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Their topic was the Future of Computing and both presented their side of how things would go down. Hoyt took a few snide potshots at Microsoft and Stoke got into a full-on Ballmer mode a few times but the debate is still worth watching.

http://video.csupomona.edu/streaming/Events/FutureOfComputing.html

Fun Shtuff

Lewis Hamilton and the RC Office Grand Prix - two guys made an app for their Blackberry to control their remote control car and raced it around the office. Then Lewis Hamilton got in on things and took it to a whole 'nother level.

http://blog.magnetion.com/2009/03/lewis-hamilton-and-the-rc-office-grand-prix.html

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