Code from my HTML5 / MVC2 Talk at SkillsMatter

A big thank-you to everyone who came along to my HTML5 and MVC2 talk at SkillsMatter on Monday – and thanks also to SkillsMatter for hosting us! Whilst I’ve done plenty of talking at unconferences and events like BarCamp, this was the first proper full-length technical talk I’ve given, so I’d really appreciate any feedback – especially since we might be doing a re-run in a couple of weeks.

During the talk, I demo’ed a tiny web app – TagAlong - that I’ve built to showcase some of the new features in HTML 5 and ASP.NET MVC preview 2. This is by no means production code – if nothing else, I’m using static List<T>’s instead of having an actual database, so your changes will disappear every time you restart the app – but it should be pretty easy to get it up and running and poke around.

If you’re interested, the code is online at http://code.google.com/p/tagalong – you’ll need MVC 2 Preview 2 installed to run it, but everything else is included.

A couple of other interesting links that I mentioned during the talk:

• The page structure diagrams are taken from A List Apart
• Dean Edward’s work-in-progress Javascript library to emulate HTML5 in downlevel browsers is online at html5-now.appspot.com
• Kevin Roast created the Asteroids demo
• The Fireworks demo was created by Kenneth Kufluk