Rob Conery is co-founder of Tekpub, co-host of This Developers Life, and the creator of SubSonic. Previously, Rob worked at Microsoft on the ASP.NET team. Rob specializes in simple design forged in "the doing of things" rather than the philosophy of what an application "should" be like. He works primarily in ASP.NET MVC but has recently transitioned much of his work into Ruby on Rails, including the Tekpub site. He lives in Kauai, Hawaii, with his wife Kathy and two daughters Madeleine and Ruby.
Carl and Richard talk to Brian Noyes about the Single Page Application (SPA) feature coming in MVC 4. Brian talks about the similarities of the design patterns for SPA to the more classical Silverlight or WPF application with RIA or WCF services on the back end. While hardly new to the web space (SPAs can be traced back to Outlook Web Access circa 2002), SPAs are going to be part of Studio 11. Brian talks through the strengths and weaknesses of the approach.
Brian Noyes is Chief Architect of IDesign, a Microsoft Regional Director,
and a Silverlight MVP. He is a frequent top rated speaker at conferences
worldwide including Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections, DevTeach, and
others. He is the author of Developers Guide to Microsoft Prism 4,
Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation, Smart Client
Deployment with ClickOnce, and Data Binding in Windows Forms 2.0. Brian
got started programming as a hobby while flying F-14 Tomcats in the U.S.
Navy, later turning his passion for code into his current career. You can
contact Brian through his blog at http://briannoyes.net/ or on twitter
@briannoyes.
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