A hidden gift in the ASP.NET MVC framework is the addition of more flexible routing into the ASP.NET world view. While it may first appear to be MVC-only, it’s in fact quite easy to bring it into old style “WebForms” ASP.NET projects.
Before ASP.NET MVC, that is in the land of WebForms, it was hard to produce nice URLs using ASP.NET. This was because routing within ASP.NET was based on one of two things:
Over the past three days I’ve been bringing my C# skills up to date by reading C# in Depth, which I’ve found to be a good description of both how to use and the reasoning and mechanisms behind the new features of C# versions 2 and 3. Whilst I had reasonable experience of C#2 and a passing knowledge of C#3, after reading the book I feel more confident in using the features.
Google have announced their movement into the operating system market with a blog posting on Google Chrome OS:
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
[…] we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
As often, the trip starts the evening before with a dull terror; I realise I’m flying the next day with a “holy crap”. They say pleasure is in the anticipation, I bitterly reflect the converse is true.
Though it’s only an hour, it will be an hour full of anxiety. I’m not sure whether the fear of the night before is a fear of the flight or a fear of the fear I’ll feel on the flight, if you see what I mean. Whichever it is, I have a bad night’s sleep.
This weekend, Jason came to visit. On Saturday Rose, Jason, Ed, Aew and I went on a trip to the St. Werburgh’s City Farm, which is a small farm in central Bristol—within easy walking distance of our house. It was a beautiful day, bright and warm; it felt like spring had finally arrived.
The farm is across some allotments from Ed’s flat, so we walked alongside vegetable patches, rundown sheds and the few people who had come out to tend their vegetables in the sunshine. Blossom was coming out and there was that warm scented fuzziness to the air spring brings.