Thank you Alamo Coders .NET!

Last night I kicked off my Texas Tour of MVC at Alamo Coders in San Antonio.

The room was pretty small and they filled it up with about 25 people.  It was a bit more personal and cozy than the Houston .NET User’s Group that I’m used to.

I ran a bit short on time, but luckily I had my ready-baked turkey in another folder so I was able to show my ajax portion of the presentation and I think it went well.

I got some feedback from a few people who found the talk to be covering too much.  (In addition to ASP.NET MVC, I covered inversion of control, mock objects, and a few other things).  I wish I had a bit more time to explain these things in more detail, as it can be like drinking from the firehose, however I think they are important topics, and necessary to understand if you expect to properly unit testing on your controllers.

For those of you that were there, here are the relevant links for more information…

Inversion of Control:

• Excellent article by Martin Fowler explaining the concept – http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html  –
• Castle Windsor – http://castleproject.org/container/index.html 
  (this was the container I was using)
• StructureMap – http://structuremap.sourceforge.net/Default.htm  (another excellent one)
• Spring.NET – http://www.springframework.net/  (the likely choice if you’ve used Spring from Java)

Mock Objects:

• Martin Fowler’s article on the subject: http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html
• RhinoMocks – http://www.ayende.com/projects/rhino-mocks/downloads.aspx

The javascript library I was using was prototype, available here: http://www.prototypejs.org.

Thanks again to Alamo Coders for having me!