Mobile traffic on the web is exploding. Are you ready? HTML5 can enable you to create mobile sites and applications VERY quickly. ASP.NET MVC 4 includes new mobile-friendly templates, a focus on responsive design as well as dedicated mobile templates that leverage jQuery and jQuery mobile.

Creating ReST architectures with ASP.NET MVC is more than just decorating actions with verbs. It’s about leveraging HTTP as an application protocol to its full potential. In doing so, we can create robust and scalable applications, not only from a performance point of view but also in terms of change and maintainability.

You can’t have a conversation about web technologies these days without someone dropping a mention of NodeJS and web sockets. If you’re a .NET developer, someone will then reference SignalR with ASP.NET Web Pages or MVC. But what are these things? Which one is better? What do they do and how do they work? In this video, Rob Conery puts NodeJS up against Damian Edwards and SignalR – showing you the two technologies side by side in a bit of a tongue-in-cheek challenge.

Learn about the new real-time web framework for ASP.NET. ASP.NET SignalR is a new open source library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications. What is “real-time web” functionality? It’s the ability to have your server-side code push content to the connected clients as it happens, in real-time.

jQuery Mobile is a JavaScript framework for building touch-optimized sites targeting smartphone and tablet devices. This session takes an existing ASP.NET MVC application and shows how to improve the mobile experience using jQuery Mobile. You will learn how the widgets, events, API and navigation features of jQuery Mobile work. You will also learn some pitfalls to avoid.