Jim Zimmerman

I have been using SubSonic for about a year now and have used it on almost every web project I have done in the last year.  I really have been wondering recently whether or not SubSonic was going to keep going with the MVC architecture that Microsoft is currently developing.  I can't even think of creating a website without it. 

Anyway I had started to think that maybe Microsoft would eventually try to hire Rob Conery especially after they just hired Phil Haack who also helped with SubSonic.  Well it looks like Microsoft is hiring Rob Conery as he posted here:

http://blog.wekeroad.com/2007/10/26/microsoft-subsonic-and-me/

I am pretty happy about this as now I believe that SubSonic is alive and well and that it will be the convention-driven toolset for Microsoft’s new MVC framework.  I am very excited to see where this goes.

If you are all interested in learning Silverlight here in Tampa, FL, you need to come to this event on October 17th from 9 - 5 p.m.!  Check out the details and sign up here:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032354162&Culture=en-US

They are giving away an Xbox 360 elite.  I am a little upset because since I am speaking so I can't win.  Not fair!

The session I am doing is called, How to build a dynamic database driven photo slide show viewer with Silverlight 1.0.  I am adapting the Silverlight Photoviewer open source project to work with dynamic data from the database.

I just saw that they put up my first session, "High-Speed Development with the AJAX Control Toolkit" , in 3 parts on the REMIX07 Videos page.  I have not looked at it yet, but there is nothing I can really do about it if I don't like watching myself talk. 

REMIX07 has been very educational and fun.  I am about ready to go to Miguel de Icaza 's session on Moonlight, "Silverlight for Linux".  Miguel is a really cool and smart guy.  It was pretty cool to see him speak at the keynote yesterday where he showed a demo of silverlight running on his Linux box.  I think that may be the first time a Linux laptop has shared the stage with vista and mac os x machines.  Pretty cool to see!