The last few weeks I’ve been messing around with Razor and Webmatrix and I have to say it’s freakin awesome. Just the fact that I can install IIS7 on XP is sweet, and free is even better.
Not only that though, but we get the Razor Templating Engine with it which is pretty sweet if you like the PHP style code in markup thing.
Here are some links if you want to learn more:
I just discovered a very cool piece of software called Deki Wiki from a company called Mindtouch. It’s an open source Wiki / Distributed app platform written in C# and PHP. It runs on Windows / Mac / Linux with MySQL and Apache 2.
The cool thing is you can write what they call extensions that you can call from within the wiki via a scripting language they call Dekiscript. These extensions can also be written in almost any internet aware language because deki wiki uses REST and XML-RPC so the extension doesn't even have to be installed on the server your running from. They could be hosted on a cheap server with PHP, or in a Google App Engine app, or you could use sites like Flickr and Digg to pull content in using their API’s. Very cool stuff, stay tuned for some examples and some code.
