I wanted to take a minute to write a quick update on the status of our 2 Flagship series on Tekpub and let people know what’s going on with them.
The first is Mastering ASP.NET MVC 2 with myself and Steven Sanderson. When we started this Steven let me know that he could push one episode out before New Year’s, and one about 2 weeks later. I thought that I could fill that gap with another episode and it’s on its way (Views). I had it about 80% finished and wanted to stop and read up on some of the release notes to make sure it was right.
Which brings up an interesting point – ASP.NET MVC 2 won’t be released for another few months (my money is on a Vegas announcement – and no I honestly have no idea) and many things can change in that time. Given that – I’ve been very, very reticent to push anything unless I’m pretty dang sure it will be correct.
The other aspect here is that Steven is an amazingly gifted teacher and I’ve had to up my game considerably to keep the content “in alignment”. It will be worth it – I promise, and we WILL get it completed before MIX.
NHibernate
Oren and I have snapped off a number of episodes and decided to take a small break over the holidays so I could get the codebase caught up to a point where we could plow ahead with more interesting scenarios such as search and caching. We’re set to record once again later this week.
Other Stuff
I’ve received a few questions about “why are you focused on Rails when you have these other things in the queue” and the answer is that I had the time to do it. I, like you, try to take some time off over the holiday season and this is the kind of thing I do – geek out with fun and different stuff.
I decided to roll my blog to Rails (not necessarily permanently) as a thought experiment – also because I wanted to try MongoDB out – and I thought I’d capture that. I recorded the whole thing from 12/23 through 1/1/10 (yes, I recorded on Christmas Even and on New Year’s Eve and day). It wasn’t work – it was fun.
I produced the whole thing over the last weekend and yes I could have been working on my MVC episode – but it was my time off 
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So – I’m back on track going full steam and hopefully Steven will drop the next Controllers episode in the coming week – but I’m going to give him all the time he needs since he is a Freak Of Nature and an amazing guy and I don’t want to stress him out.
I do appreciate your patience with this. We will get these things out, but as I’ve said before many times – I won’t rush anything. It has to be stellar.
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