This week we talk to Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller about the FubuMVC project.Topics

• What is FubuMVC?
• History of the project
• Built to take advantage of static typing
• Composition over inheritance
• Dependency injection tricks
• IFlattener<T> for JSONification
• Application of SOLID prinicples in FubuMVC and AltOxite
• View engines
• TextboxFor and no magic strings - advantages for refactoring support
• Thin controllers, fat models
• FubuMVC as the Ruby On Rails for ASP.NET
• Benefits and problems of using generics for static typing
• Use of meaningful generic type names rather than <T,U,K> ugliness
• Testing tools for Javascript
• FubuMVC’s Behaviors
• Partial rendering strategies
• Why they’re using NHibernate for AltOxite
• IOC benefits
• Strategies for Javascript management
• qUnit for Javascript unit testing
• How do I sell this to my boss?
• Why FubuMVC as opposed to Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC?
• Why MVC isn’t just classic ASP revisited
• Benefit of FubuMVC - removing choices through opinions
• Ways an open source MVC framework keep up with Microsoft
• FubuMVC futures and misc. benefits
• Use of Rake as a build script

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Herding Code 31: Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC