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During last Saturday’s UGIALT.Net Conference in Milano I shared a talk together with Italian RoR expert Sandro Paganotti: “RoR vs ASP.NET MVC”. We had 20 minutes each to build a super easy conference registration page and also explaining to the audience what we were doing. The goal of the talk was not to choose the best platform or the most productive one, but to show the steps needed to setup and create a simple but fully functional web application. It was a very nice experience and I think it showed how similar the the web frameworks are. To...

Last week I held two presentations about ASP.NET MVC for the new-born DotNetRomaCeStà user group in Rome. And one of them was about what I consider to be ASP.NET MVC Best Practices. The presentation was in Italian so I decided to translate my slide in English so that everybody can read them. Controller’s best practices 1 – Delete the AccountController You will never use it and it’s a super-bad practice to keep demo code in your applications. 2 – Isolate Controllers from the outside World Dependencies on the HttpContext, on data access classes, configuration, logging,...

I’m glad to announce that I’ll be speaking in Rome at the Gladiators Fest (see the original in Italian): this is the first event organized by the .NET user group in Rome and I’ve been invited by Emanuele Mattei to talk about my IT passion: ASP.NET MVC. I’ll held two session: just before the lunch break, the first will be about some of the Best Practices for developing web applications based on ASP.NET MVC (level 300) and immediately after the lunch, I’ll talk about the new features that are going...

Just a quick reminder, tomorrow afternoon I’ll be talking about ASP.NET MVC at the local DotNetUmbria usergroup. Today I spent the whole day putting the finishing touches on tomorrow’s talks and demos. I’ll talk from 3PM to 6PM (or till when people ask for mercy). I’ve two talks planned: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC, my “usual” introductory presentation, update with the RTM bits and yesterday’s big announcement ASP.NET MVC, so what? This was originally planned to be a “live refactoring” of an old WebForm application to ASP.NET MVC, but I changed it...

Another weekend, another community event: last Friday/Saturday I was at the Italian MVP OpenDays in Milano and next Friday (October 24th) I’ll be talking in front of more than 70 person (the event is sold out) at the “ASP.NET 3.5 and beyond Web Development” workshop organized by DotNetSide, the .NET usergroup of South Italy. I’ll speak for 3 hours (and probably more) about ASP.NET MVC and the new features that the .NET 3.5 SP1 brings to the table. There will be 2 sessions: Life after SP1: I’ll talk about Dynamic Data, Routing, the new...

This year it's going to be a busy spring for me: April 26th/27th: Loci - Evoluzione generativa: Aurora - an art exhibition where there I presented a short video I made with Processing (on Vimeo 2 drafts of the final video) - Porto Sant'Elpidio End of May: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC - This is a private 2h workshop I'll deliver for my colleagues at Avanade Italy - online June 14th: UGIALT.NET conference - The second conference of the the Italian ALT.NET group. Actually not a real talk, but an OpenSpace meeting......