Roger's Rants

ASP.NET MVC is seeing a lot of enthusiasm from the community right now, but not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to make the switch right away.

Some of you may be maintaining large applications where a full rewrite is not possible, or at least not in the immediate future.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t steps you can take to get your code ready for an eventual transition to MVC.

A word of warning: some of these suggestions may make you squeamish if you’re an experienced Web Forms developer who is used to using that model and accustomed to following its associated best practices.

If you like Web Forms, by all means, continue using that model to its fullest extent and take advantage of all the features it has to offer.

However if you’re looking to make the switch then keep reading and see how many of these steps you can implement in your project.

ASP.NET MVC is a programming model for ASP.NET that offers several benefits over the original programming model called “Web Forms”.

Both MVC and Web Forms are built on top of the core ASP.NET framework, meaning they each have access to the same low-level functions such as parsing requests made to the server and formatting responses.

From there MVC and Web Forms take wholly different approaches.

So I’m browsing the tubes this morning when this attention-seeking tweet catches my eye: “Please Don’t Learn to Code”.

I figured it was just some punk trying to troll people for page views, but I fall for the trap anyway. Turns out the “punk” was Jeff Atwood from CodingHorror.com!

Apparently Atwood is up in a tizzy because the people behind CodeAcademy.com (a great site, by the way) have been doing a promotion called “Code Year” to get more people to, well… learn to code!

What a great idea! I mean, it is kind of a giant marketing campaign for CodeAcademy, but still, what kind of a monster would have any beef with the idea of getting more people to code?

Well, apparently Jeff Atwood, because he was deeply offended by all this.

Hey guys,

I posted this video a week ago covering JavaScript "Primitive Types" vs "Reference Types". It's a 7 minute overview of a subject that I found to be very tricky when I first started learning JavaScript.

Hope you enjoy this, and as always I welcome your feedback. More videos planned soon!

-Roger

The easiest way to reach me is to mail me at roger@rogerharford.com or just send me a message on twitter using the link on the right-hand side.

-Roger

Hi, I'm Roger Harford and I'm a web developer with over 10 years experience. I live in St. Petersburg FL with my wife and 2 kids.

I'll update this page soon with some new content as soon as I can think of some :-)

-Roger