In my mission to learn ASP.NET MVC I have been watching the BRILLIANT videos from Scott Gu’s session in Manchester about MVC 2, I downloaded them all in HD from Vimeo and started to watch them – Its over 3 hours long, and I found myself wanting to go back to bits to watch again because I forgot syntax or tips he gave out but couldn’t remember what video they were on or where about in the timeline!

So to remind myself I did a GuFest and watched them all and made some time markers so I could go back to it at a later date – I’m posting them here so I don’t forget

You can see all the videos here

http://vimeo.com/videos/search:Gu%20manchester

And here are my markers

• Action Links -- Video 2 (25.27)
• URL's / Routes -- Video 3 (00.00)
• CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) -- Video 3 (09.11)
• Details View -- Video 3 (13.03)
• Validate Data -- Video 3 (21.19)
• Example Of Validating Data -- Video 3 (28.51)
• Client Side Validation -- Video 4 (00.26)
• Editor Templates / Scaffolding -- Video 4 (10.00)
• Action Filters -- Video 4 (21.24)
• Unit Testing -- Video 4 (23.50)

This is purely to gauge numbers on who would be interested in attending Level 2 training in Bedford UK, if we get enough interest I’ll email Niels and see if we can arrange something?  Here are where my offices are based and I’d be willing to host the event for both days if we can get a trainer over.

Office Location In Bedford

• Very easy access from M1 & A1 North and South
• Direct train from St Pancras to Bedford every 30 mins

So if you are in the UK and want Level 2 training can you add your interest below – Please can you Tweet this out too so everyone knows about it

Thanks

Lee

Well I’m currently sitting on the train on my way home from a great day in London at the Umbraco 5th birthday bash.  I had a great day today and actually really learned a lot of stuff from the great speakers – A great part of today was putting faces and voices to the tweets and posts, and finally meeting the ‘other’ Lee who’s other half is also called Lucy! More...

Well I finally got round to finishing the first version of my business directory, as those who follow my waffle on this blog will know – I have been looking at porting my ASPLD (ASP.NET Link Directory) over to Umbraco for a while, but just never had the time.

But as everyone is pulling their fingers to celebrate the 5th Birthday of Umbraco, I thought I would do the same and finish version one of the directory and get it packaged up.  Below is a quick screen cast of installing the package and looking at the demo directory that comes pre-installed. More...

Yes this post is completely useless, some how I have been nominated to be an Umbraco MVP for 2010 which is just amazing.  But I’m pretty certain which of the great candidates will get the MVP’s (And deservedly so in my opinion) I thought I would game the system as much as possible, and I have put this post up as it should appear with my name on the our.umbraco.org home page in the blog listings asking people to vote for me.

Yes that's right, this post is nothing more than… Urm… Spam… on my own blog! That's how much I want an MVP, not many people can say they spammed their own blog to become an Umbraco MVP – Now that's dedication :P

>> VOTE LEE MESSENGER <<

http://our.umbraco.org/member/3188

This post isn’t really a blog post as such, I thought as I watch all the LINQ videos and read various websites I would document useful bits of information that I can reference millions of times over the next 2 years few months. 

I am going to be adding to this page more and more over the coming weeks too, to save having lots of different  More...

If you use Dreamweaver CS2 or CS3 and code in ASP.NET you’ll know about an annoying problem it has (I’m not sure if they have fixed it for CS4) – Dreamweaver doesn’t know what a Master page is and tus treats it like plain text, meaning when you open it up you get no intelli-sense or ASP.NET support!   This is really easy to fix with a quick edit of an XML file in the install directory of Dreamweaver More...

“Not again” I hear you shout… And yes, yet ‘another’ Twitter package for Umbraco has been created. But, this one has a bit of a twist – I have used the current Twitter packages, but although I found them great the one I used was temperamental with showing latest tweets (Although the more I look into it I wonder if its one of the settings).

Also I wanted to make something VERY simple, no API, simple settings and all done with ASP.NET – NO XSLT! No real reason, just because I can… hehehe.  So here it is, I created this SimpleTweets a really simple package that displays your latest Twitter posts in a user control and spits out the results in an unordered list.  More...

A long time ago I used to be into doing lots of affiliate stuff, building sites then driving traffic to them and making bits of money here and there – I remembered recently that I still had an active account on the eBay Affiliate Network (https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com) and thought it would be cool to make a little eBay Affiliate Feed project for Umbraco so everyone else can easily make money from their sites.

I thought I would try my hand at a screen cast… Never again!  But here it is anyway, or you can spare yourself the pain of listening to me droning on and read below the video. More...