We've all been there ... thought we were going to get some code out of the door but then for one reason or another we couldn't manage it. I hope ScottGu et al who worked so hard to try and get it out this weekend don't take this the wrong way but here is a modified version of the lyrics to a song from the musical 'Les Miserables' for all of us who are sooo keen to get our hands on the new framework and waited all weekend for it ...
MVC framework (to 'Les Miserables - Empty Chairs At Empty Tables' music)
[A developer who got his hands on the MVC framework and blogged about it]
There's a grief that can't be spoken
There's a pain goes on and on
Empty pages, empty tables
Now my sites are dead and gone
Here they talked of view-controllers
Here it was they lit the flame
Here they sang about the framework
And the framework never came.
From a blog page in Seattle
They could see a world reborn
And they rose with voices ringing
I can hear them now!
The very code that they had posted
Became their last communion
On the lowly CTP...
At dawn.
Oh my friends, my friends forgive me.
[The ghosts of those who died waiting for the MVC framework appear.]
That I have code and you have none
There's a grief that can't be spoken
There's a pain goes on and on
Phantom frameworks run on windows
Mock assemblies on the floor
Databases with no tables
Where my view will run no more.
[The ghosts fade away.]
Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty projects with no tables
Where my code will run no more...
Ah well, at least I have something to look forward to next week!!