Kevin Miller

Monorail Introduced

The deed is done. My Code Camp talk is over. It was a great experience working on my public speaking and polishing my understanding of Monorail. My talk had 2 parts. An introduction, that needs a lot of polish, and a coding exercise where I go from an empty project to a working example complete with activerecord data model. A lot of great questions were asked. All in all it really jazzed me to have the opportunity to get the word out about the great work being done on this project and to see so many people get excited about possibilities that Monorail brings to web applications development on the .Net platform.

Getting comfortable with Monorail

As I promised during my talk here is a yummy collection of links to get you going. First off some introductory material to get you excited about Monorail:

• Colin Ramsay's has a collection of excellent screencasts
• Castle Project's  Getting Started with Monorail

Now that you are excited. Go start exploring with the code.

• VS.Net 2005 with Service Pack 1 or Web Application Projects
• Castle Project - Installer (.msi of release candidate 2)

Online Resources

One of the great things about Castle Project is the wealth of online collaboration vectors they have to help beginner and advanced Monorail users. One of the annoying things is the number of different places you have to look to find what you need. Here is a list of the MANY great places to get details Castle Project Information.

• The Castle Project Wiki is often very helpful and it seems that it is sometimes the proving ground for information that will get filtered into the documentation.
• using.castleproject.org is another wiki geared towards community 
• Hanging out in the google groups Castle Project Users  or for the more daring Castle Project Development List.
• There is also an official castle project forum.
• If you are comfortable with IRC you can sometimes find committers hanging out willing to help via chat.

Thanks to everyone that came. It was a blast.