Buu Nguyen's Blog

I had a chance to speak about HTML5 in IE9 and ASP.NET MVC 3 at the Microsoft Technology Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam on Thursday Mar 17th 2011.  The event was supposed to attract 200 audiences.  However the suddenly cold weather and non-stop rain (more later) probably made a few dozens not show up.

This trip to Hanoi was very memorable in many ways.  First, I met and had conversations with many interesting people and learned many things from other speakers (agile development with Scrum & Kanban, BI in SharePoint 2010, distributed caching in practice etc.)  It’s a pity that I had to leave early to catch the flight (which was eventually delayed for as much as 2.5 hours) so I missed a couple of late sessions.

Second, the whole trip itself contains full of surprises.  Both departing and coming back flights were delayed 1 and 2.5 hours respectively, leaving me exhausted in the airports (thanks VNA!).  And then the weather.  In Ho Chi Minh, it was hot like 30 C degree something.  In Hanoi, it was 9 C the moment the plane arrived and remained that cold during the whole time.  I ended up putting on as many clothing as I brought with me to avoid catching a cold (and sounding like a duck during my speeches).  Additionally, it was raining all the time and I was basically on taxi every time I walked out of a building. (And should I mention that there were 2 cab drivers, 1 hotel receptionist and 1 flightmate mistook me for being foreigner and started speaking English to me!)

Slides and code can be found below.  There are a few pictures (of me and some other speakers) taken by a friend of mine.  I hope to receive pictures from Microsoft as well.

ASP.NET MVC Client-side Resource Combine is another spin-off library from one of my current development projects. (The other is ASP.NET MVC Validation Library.) While the name is “resource combine”, this library actually does more than just combining client side resources including JavaScript and CSS. It allows you to organize resources into groups which will be combined, minified, compressed, and cached (at both client and server sides) together. While the library comes bundled with some routing and link utility to help developers easily integrate it into their ASP.NET MVC applications, there’s no reason why the library cannot be used with ASP.NET WebForms applications.

Refer to the project CodePlex page for detailed usage and binary/code download. The library uses the great YUI Compressor library for the minification part.

Hopes it helps!