Tonight I had the opportunity to share some of the foundations of what I've learned for building rich web applications using JS and the concepts around MVVM.
The complete Visual Studio solution (ready to run) (ZIP)
The slide deck (PPTX)
I'm in the middle of migrating. My previous site was a circa-2007 custom affair, built on ASP.NET MVC1 and SQL. But last year I got a MacBook Pro, which is by a stretch the finest machine I've ever used. This new site is still custom, built 100% on a Mac. It's ASP.NET MVC3 running on the Mono framework, with a cloud-based MongoDB backend and Twitter integration for comments. The UI is coming together with Knockout and PJAX.
So while I port my old posts into the cloud, I hope you'll stay engaged via Twitter. See you around!
Reading on a desktop? Go ahead, resize the browser. The design responds to the new dimensions in real-time. This is one of my experiments using Responsive Design - a combination of CSS3 and other techniques to create a single page design that orchestrates all the elements in the most suitable way for the target device - whether that's a 1920x1200 desktop or an iPad.