Keyvan Nayyeri

A few days ago I received some extra author copies of our newly published book, Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0, at my address. I was thinking about meeting with some old friends in Tehran for a long time, and decided to use this opportunity to have a presentation and meeting to share some copies with my friends. By the way, those who have read the book know that I have dedicated this book to all Iranians around the world.

Today we had a meeting with a few friends including Hamed Banaei, Mahdi Taghizadeh, Soheil Rashidi, Behnam Yusefi, Milad Karbasizadeh, Mohammad Reza Mohammadali, Farid Arzpeyma, and Pedram Pourhossein where I had an introductory presentation on ASP.NET MVC 1.0.

The presentation was an introduction to ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and I tried to give an overview of the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 including a historical perspective, the MVC pattern, reasons to have ASP.NET MVC, main components of ASP.NET MVC, and best practices for ASP.NET MVC.

Finally I had a random draw to share a few copies of our book with old friends and we talked about future plans to hopefully gather Iranian developers and organize better groups for future community activities.

Mahdi has published some photos of this meeting and presentation where I had worn an anti-WebForms t-shirt designed and sent by Simone to me.

For your information some of these friends were among those who brought the knowledge of the .NET Framework to Iran, shared their expertise, and spread the word about the new technology as early as it was introduced by Microsoft. We were contributing to some local communities by writing articles and improving the common knowledge in this field. Unfortunately we missed each other for a long time and became busy with career and personal stuff, so couldn’t meet each other (except Hamed and I that meet regularly).

We’re looking to having more meetings after this and plan some nerd dinners, workshops, monthly talks, and hopefully technical conferences in the future, and welcome anyone who can help us in any way.

You can download the slides of my presentation from here.