Adam Kinney posts tagged with 'asp.net'

Oh, Oxite, we love this open source .NET blog software

Adam Kinney — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:19:00 GMT

Oxite, an open source, standards compliant, extensible CMS was "hard-launched" today, much to the delight and excitement of quite a few people. We "soft-launched" it Friday night but you probably didn't hear about it.

When the time came to relaunch MIX Online the new team met with the Channel 9 dev team and a new opportunity was born. The MIX team had a few themes in mind; Content, Bits, Design and Standards. (For the full story check out Nishant Kothary's Web Design from the Gut article on the design process from the beginning).

Oxite, an ASP.NET MVC based blog (6:48)

The Channel 9 dev team saw an opportunity to take all of what they've learned from building sites like Channel 9, Ch8, 10 and TechNet Edge and mix it with the goodness that is ASP.NET MVC.

You can hear more about the dev team's thoughts from Erik and Nathan in this interview. (I apologize for the lack of "So" filter and my sleepiness in this video. I had little sleep the night before. I know, I know, no excuses...)

Not quite a few people are excited about this sample, which is what it is. Its not a product, but is a working sample/starter kit that you can use as a blog like the MIX Online site or you can use to learn ASP.NET MVC.

Here's a few of the posts on Oxite today:

MIX Online - Web Design from the Gut
Mary-Jo Foley - Microsoft develops open-source content-management system
Ed Bott - Microsoft takes dead aim at Wordpress...
Joe Wilcox - Oxite: Just MIX and Serve
Jeff Sandquist - Supporting Web Standards With Microsoft

In Jeff's post he mentions this came from a side project that Duncan and I had been working back when I was on the team. This is true in some sense, we did have our own blog software called Oxite with highly configurable XHTML output. I'm actually still running it today with this post.

But, I believe that the Channel 9 dev team has mainly inherited the name along with the spirit of a simple easy to configure blog.

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid...or in this case Smartie.

I've been tracking the project as the guys have been working on it and I'm excited to crack it open and replace my correct blog with it. Now that we all have a single code-base and format we agree on, I'm looking forward to what comes next.

I want to start adding next release features and cool components. Now I just need to join the Oxite CodePlex project and get the import code from Duncan :)

Barnes Begins Project Nexus

Adam Kinney — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:32:00 GMT

Late last night, Scott Barnes introduced Project Nexus where the goal is to provide a vicarious experience for those who wonder whether the tagline "learn once, apply anywhere" really fits Microsoft's Rich platform story. Can you really take advantage of your .NET skills, code and tools across our multiple offerings? This where Scott steps in and says:

Well, I’m going to answer this and I’m not going to do it via lip service either. I’m going to write a complete end to end solution from scratch, in that I’m going to write code that I will be able to use throughout our entire Rich Platform. It will be a complete ACME style solution that is a living breathing application as well.

I think its great idea and I hope to help where I can. That's where this first post comes in. Scott's started the project by opening up with a Contract for the project, open for discussion. Currently his plan is to span the technologies of ASP.NET MVC + AJAX, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, WCF and SQL Server. Is there something missing you'd like to see? Leave a comment on his post and let him know.

Sounds like a Continuum episode(s) in the works to me...

The Continuum Show - Essential Editions

Adam Kinney — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:55:00 GMT

Episode 1 of the new show is an 18 minute interview with Phil Haack discussing ASP.NET MVC. This can be a lot of fun to watch, especially if you are a fan of ASP.NET MVC or Phil Haack.

But what if you don't already know about the topics at hand? Would you continue to watch the video for 3 minutes and 38 second when the question is finally asked "What is MVC"?

Probably Not.

This is where the concept of the "Essential Edition" comes in. In order to make the video easier to watch by more people, I'll be extracting out the "Essential" bits into a much shorter video.

After extracting out the tastiest most informative morsels from this video, the end result is a crisp 2 minutes and 41 second interview. You can now find out what MVC is, what's new in Preview 4 and how to find out more information in the time it takes to eat lunch at your desk.

I'll be posting The Continuum Show - Essential Editions on a new YouTube channel and on the TCS Facebook page. For a sample, check out MVC Preview 4 - Essential Edition.

Enter The Continuum Show

Adam Kinney — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:06:00 GMT

The Continuum Show has begun!

In this new show on Channel 9, we'll be exploring the world of the Microsoft Client Continuum. The Continuum refers to the array of UI technologies available form Microsoft including WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, IE8,Windows 7, Surface and more.

We'll be showing new features, patterns and practices from experts and samples of awesome applications. There's a lot of stories that don't always make it out to everyone and I'm excited to be presenting those stories with the new show.

Episode 0 - Hello World and Episode 1 - MVC Preview with Phil Haack have already been published and I have a few more in stock waiting to be published. Some of the episodes already filmed include the NBC Olympics site, Kaxaml and a Facebook application built with ASP.NET and Silverlight.

If you have any suggestions for topics or applications you would like to see covered leave a comment.

To stay tuned to the Continuum Show you can follow along on Twitter, join the room on FriendFeed or become a fan on Facebook.

Now back to the editing room...