Trying to catch-up with the sessions from JAOO Conference 2007, which I would have very much liked to attend but finally didn’t, I found very good write-ups from Søren Spelling Lund aka publicvoid.dk. Use this link for his conference reports: publicvoid.dk - Conference.
I liked the details he reports and also the personal thoughts on the matter. Also, as usual in this kind of conferences, details come to light from one speaker or another. He quotes from the Oren Eini and Hamilton Verissimo presentation on MonoRail:
It is easy to fall into the pit of success because MonoRail leads you in the direction of good design. Microsoft is working on something similar for the future and it should be about to be released in beta.
Now that is reaaaally interesting. And more:
It’s encouraging to me that Microsoft is working on something similar because that will garner the widespread support needed to grow a third part business around a web framework based on the MonoRail principles.
Very good news. Having watched for more than a year now the adventures of Ruby on Rails and his cousins like MonoRail, it can only be very interesting to see the take on a web framework based on the same principles from a big company like Microsoft (maybe CodeGear too? someday? pleaaaase?).
It seems clear that at least some of Rails ideas, it’s spirit for the least, are and will be used in a lot of projects and frameworks. Even the venerable desktop programming will profit from these principles, like the clean separation of layers, UI driven by the controller code, code generation, automation and not to forget the tests and specs in code.
PS This is my first post using Windows Live Writer, it works just fine, maybe it will encourage me to post more often;)