I just had a friend at work ask that most innocuous of questions, “So, what should I learn if I want to be web developer?” which led us into a pretty good discussion about all things web related and to give him (Hi Nat!
I’m starting to see more ASP.NET MVC samples and questions come out and I’m realizing that a large portion of the ASP.NET crowd doesn’t even realize that a huge reason for the MVC movement is because of the Ruby on Rails framework. A lot of new .
Often you’ll need to represent some hierarchical or parent-child relationship in your application and one thing you’ll struggle with is how to cleanly mesh both the parent and child controllers yet keep them nice and RESTful. The secret is in good routing.
I’m a big fan of SubSonic, a ORM/DAL generator / utility belt of goodness. Like any tool there is a little configuration and setup you need to do to get everything rolling and while Rob Conery has some great podcasts on doing just this, sometimes you just need to remember that one little option vs.
Remember that scene in Star Wars when Luke (or was it Han Solo?) cuts open that crazy goat-beast thing’s belly and slides inside for life-giving warmth? Well the .NET guys have done the same today by making the .NET Framework Library source code available for nerdly enjoyment.