Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer

Well, since the MVC has a chance of becoming mainstream to some degree, it's not surprising to see the usual suspects jumping on it. In any case, it's a welcome change.

No mention of Monorail, which is unsuprising. N-I-H is alive and well at MS.

This same group will still turn their noses up to Spring.NET and NHibernate and stick to their Unity and Linq to SQL....

Watchdog, watchdog, watchdog...

Cool but with mainstream comes compromise and justification. Where's Dino in engaging with this community? I haven't seen him around yet. I'm skeptical.

Nothing wrong with compromise.  I think alt.net needs a little mainstream activity to balance what sometimes seems like an all-or-nothing approach to the practices espoused by alt.net.  Believe it or not, mainstream != dumb, so the mainstream might actually teach alt.net a few things, too :).

@Laribee,

Cut him some slack, will you? :)

Far as I remember, Dino has been the high priest of MS *mortyrdom* and he still is, so you can't expect to see him aournd speaking all alt.NETish overnight. I don't expect to see him around the pragmatic .NET camp ever unless it is a direct command from Houston (MS), which I doubt will happen. He has his plates full at Wintellect for the moment.

MVC is going to be the tipping point for .net community. There will be no distinction between ALT.Net and Mort after that.

books.google.com/books

"high priest of MS *mortyrdom*", "Mr. Mainstream"??

Common guys... What Dino did so wrong so it would deserve this call out blog post ? He wrote books for web forms and presenting that as much as he can. I know web forms are something you ALT-ers despise but for the millions of people are still doing it and it is still a widest adopted model of doing web in .NET. So with his books he is helping very large number of people.

And what is so strange in Dino (or anyone) writing about the MVC framework.

At the end, MVC .NET is becoming a mainstream (because of the fact it is done by M$ it would outnumber the number of monorail users very fast)

I really don't see what is the point behind this post which looks to me like a childish "I was always here and you just came"

What is the sound of 1,000 hands patting themselves on the back for being... 'ALT.NET'?  

How do you review a .net MVC engine without mentioning monorail???