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Episode 31 - Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC

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 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 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