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As Hilton's blog indicates , we'll have the pleasure of chatting with legendary Brad Abrams soon, right here in Cape Town! He will be doing a talk on the planned ASP.NET MVC Framework for SADeveloper.net. Scott Guthrie explains the MVC pattern nicely over here . This is an exciting framework that might(!) remind you of Ruby on Rails . Some open source efforts to bring the rails mentality of CoC and DRY to the .net platform has been attempted before, most notably with the Castle Project ....
With the introduction of Domain Specific Languages (DSL's) like LINQ right into the .net languages themselves, we become capable of becoming more focused on the domain of the problem space to which we're developing solutions. We're able to do Domain Driven Design (DDD) at a language level, and that's cool! What is really cool in addition, is that we don't lose out on the ability to go down to a lower level - the code we write with language-level DSL's is backwards compatible...
Ruby is one of those wonderful gems that has been getting people excited for quite some time, but it hasn't been until the Rails framework has been released that the majority of Ruby users fell in love with it. Developing with Ruby on Rails enables you to get fully functional web-apps up and running in literally no time. What's Rails? It's a brilliant MVC implementation, using the Active Record pattern to map domain objects to your persistence layer: "Rails is a web-application and...