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Calling all geeks!

It’s time to band together and drop the funk.

Geek is the new hip, haven’t you heard?  Geek tattoos are chic.  Librarian glasses are sexy.   Weird is in.  And you can be, too.

Oddly Zen is seeking collaborators and guest-bloggers for full-time, part-time, or one-off content contributions in the areas of:

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Increase your reach.  Enhance your image.  Be flagrantly geeky.

And get some link-backs all from the comfort of your cube.

Note:  Think of this as an open-source blog.  Contribution should make you feel good. 

Also, I’m looking for someone (preferably one other person) to build a Rails application with.  It will be a gift to the community as well — and if it makes any cheese, we’ll donate it.

I wrote about the ASP.NET MVC Framework previously — and since then, had a chance to take a look at the source code and provide some feedback of my own. In my opinion, it has a long way to go, but it is a great step in the right direction from Microsoft. Not only are they moving toward public involvement in releases and a more acceptable release schedule, but a better overall philosophy of community involvement and adherence to de facto web application code design standards. It seems MS got the hint from the success of Open-source frameworks and felt the need to compete. Who says Open-source competition for developers hearts and minds is not a good thing? More ⊕

Well, it looks like the boys and girls in Redmond finally saw the proverbial light.  And, even though it was a train speeding down the ruby-hued rails, could this new Model-View-Controller framework release be what ASP.net programmers need to free themselves from their repetitive spaghetti-coded nightmares?

I hope so.  Better late than never, I suppose.  I’d still like to see ORM and the other wowie-wows that Rails offers.