Interesting Article on DevSource: “According to an Evans Data survey, a broad majority of developers say they expect the development of applications for wireless devices to grow or stay the same despite the economy. The survey also shows that 40 percent more developers plan to target Windows Mobile than Apple iPhone, and 46 percent more plan to target the NET Compact Framework than Google's Android platform.”

Wanted to emphasize that those in our field (specifically in computer Development/Architecture) either continue our education nearly every day, or settle into “comfortable” obscurity.  The latter being a very dangerous place to be in these times – and not someplace I ever see myself.

And I was very pleased when I received an email from InnerWorkings – a company/software application that I started using when I taught .NET training courses at FirstData ( see my previous blog posting: Case Study: Many .NET teams are underperforming… is yours? ) – with a Certificate of Achievement for my 50th Task completion – which I received as I’ve been working through some of their new training modules, continuing my exposure and enhancing my understanding of new materials.  May be trivial to some, but kudos to InnerWorkings for recognizing and inspiring.

And on another note, kudos to all the members our our Madison .NET user group ( www.MADdotNET.com ), these are the people who especially in these uncertain times, show their dedication to sharing, learning and enhancing peer-to-peer knowledge related to .NET technologies ... proving themselves to be the leaders in our field -- today, tomorrow and beyond...

Downloaded and looking at the latest ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC1 project from Microsoft. 

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Model View Controller design pattern for Test-Driven Development of enterprise scale Web applications, is really Microsoft’s answer to the Ruby on Rails framework used by Web developers for rapid prototyping of applications.

High hopes based on feedback that I’ve seen so far.

Look at Scott Guthrie’s (corporate vice president of Microsoft's developer division) blog posting to get an overview of the release.