Spark v1.0 and presentation for MPLS ALT.NET
alt.net, aspnetmvc, presentation, programming, spark June 24th, 2009The first news is that the Spark v1.0 bits are now officially released and are the default download at CodePlex. It re-opens the gates to more substantial changes that have been postponed for the release milestone.
Coinciding with the release I did a presentation of Spark on the 18th for the Minneapolis ALT.NET group organized by Freemind.
I had mentioned I was preparing for this and someone on Twitter asked if it would be recorded, so I arranged for a camcorder to be present.
Downloadable materials:
PowerPoint slides
All files and projects
New Downloadable version at 1024×768, 982.21MB
There were some lessons learned. One is that CamStudio will record as long as you like, then fail when it’s compressing and interleaving audio if the result is larger than 4GB.
Fortunately, out of a deep-seated (and apparently justified) distrust of technology there was also a camcorder on a tripod. An Avisynth filter named Reform provided some fairly acceptable results reconstructing a 4:3 aspect ratio of the screen.
There is an additional 30 minutes of audio captured by CamStudio after the tape ran out. I’m thinking of recapturing a video to go with that.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Sorry I missed it, my wife wouldn’t let me skip out on our honeymoon to attend :(
When I met you at the pragmatic beer thing the other day I totally didn’t put you and Spark together. Took me a little while to remember where I knew the name from (I’m slow with names). I somehow didn’t know you were from MN at all. Small world. Good work, btw.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:48 am
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June 25th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Thanks, and congrats on the honeymoon! She’s probably right about the priorities. :)
It is a small world. I had looked up NBusiness earlier when you were asking about code generators in the discussion group and noticed you were working with Magenic at the time.
So I was at an advantage knowing you were a technologist in the area, and knowing the pragmatic beer organizer, Donn Felker, was also associated with Magenic.
I’m going to have to miss the one tonight though. Thursday are usually bad for me.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Aside – I found a better sharpen filter, and a way of using oversampling to improve the quality of the deskew, so there’s a 22-hour job running to produce a 1024×768 clip with more readable text.
July 9th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I love the custom tags!!! Thats frickin’ crazy!
August 6th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Lou, you’re a genius. Spark is an absolutely inspired piece of work. You are the John Resig of ASP.NET! :-)
If you ever get round to posting that remaining 30 mins it would be much appreciated!
August 10th, 2009 at 10:07 am
You’re too kind! I’ll see what I can do about the last bit. I’m going to GenCon soon but I’ll try to pull something together after that.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Just curious.. We have automaticEncoding option. If it is true, ${} means ${H()}, and !{} means original ${} with no encoding.
And we have $!{} which outputs nothing in case of NullReferenceException.
The question is how $ behaves in $! pair and do we have a !!{} syntax? =)
September 30th, 2009 at 11:58 am
I am a late Spark bloomer, but man ohh man… am I in love! Thanks for the insightful screencast and awesome View Engine!
October 21st, 2009 at 4:18 am
looks like downloadable version doesn’t work
getting ‘Sorry, but you have an Error 404 – Not Found…’