4月11日
I decided I wasn’t quite busy enough ;-)
With VS 2010 set to launch in beta in May, and given that this blog barely covered VS 2005, let alone VS 2008, I figured it would be good for me to return and see what I can come up with.
Perhaps I can find a way to integrate ASP.NET with social networking and ethics :-D
As an interesting aside, my childhood kitty cat, Smokey, was born on April 11, 1975. (Why I can remember that, but not remember whether I’ve answered an email from the last few days I’ll never know…)
9月20日
I'm getting too many spamming comments, so, sadly, the only way to prevent that is to completely turn off comments. Sorry about that!
My days are spent with my eternal companion, Blackboard. I'll occasionally point students to this blog, sadly outdated. In my vast amounts of spare time I could start making posts again...
8月14日
Microsoft has just released a nifty little blogging tool as beta: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/
I'm using it here for the first time, so I can't report much, but the download, installation and configuration experience was pleasant, as was composing this post.
I'm using it here with my Spaces account, but I could have used it with any of my numerous Blogger.com accounts, as well. In fact, I can wire it up to *all* of my blogs.
Very cool!
3月16日
I love the designation "
Mystery Meat Navigation" from the folks at Web Pages That Suck. Part of my loathing of Flash sites is from MMN. (Mainly it's because Flash takes away my beloved right-click.)
One of the worst offenders I've seen is
Chipotle. Try making your relatives in their 70s navigate through that site.
I was writing up a post about MMN and Web Pages That Suck in an online ASP.NET class I'm teaching and thought I'd see if Chipotle uses ASP.NET. I tested this by typing
http://www.chipotle.com/default.aspx into the browser. Yep, they use it. Well, the server they are on has it installed (the 1.1.4322.2300 version).
Even if they aren't using ASP.NET functionality, they really should do something about the default ugly ASP.NET 404 screen (yes, I know most web developers don't anticipate folks randomly typing wrong addresses into the browser, but default 404 - any error, really - pages are a pet peeve of mine):
Server Error in '/' Application.
The resource cannot be found.
3月15日
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The site notes the offer is good until April 30, 2006 or while supplies last.
"IdeaBlade continues to offer "IdeaBlade-Lite" for .NET 1.1 development. IdeaBlade-Lite is the predecessor of DevForce Express, and targets developer who have not moved to .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005."
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IdeaBlade's DevForce itself is described as "a developer productivity solution for building applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework. DevForce is a 'must have' for developing and deploying .NET applications. With its integrated suite of infrastructure components, an application server, design tools, and full service support, you can create compelling .NET enterprise applications, on time, and on budget."]
Some of my fellow MCTs were discussing this application and I decided to check it out. For those times when you wish Notepad had the ability to create multiple documents from the same window - it's even got the source code included.
I've heard tales of overly normalized databases where the official US State abbreviations were in a lookup table...
3月8日
I'll be there as a Technical Learning Guide. Wheee!
2月25日
Once upon a time I was trying to explain how Internet Explorer was integrated with Windows. The perfect analogy came to me: Star Trek - the episode where the alien creatures that looked like a flying version of that fake vomit they made when I was a kid attacked Spock and wrapped themselves around his nervous system. They couldn't get rid of the creature because it had become so integrated with Spock. I figured that's what IE did with Windows.
Note: I am not calling Internet Explorer flying vomit :-D
For years I used this analogy without knowing the name of the episode or the official taxonomy of the creatures.
Episode: "Operation: Annihilate!"
Creature: "large, amoeba-like aliens that attack humans and intertwine their tentacles with the body's nervous system" from Deneva.
Now, the fact that these parasites are described as using "excruciating pain as a means of controlling their victims" has nothing to do with my analogy, really....
:-D
"Its purpose is to provide support for improved F5 performance, partial trust debugging, and design time expression evaluation."
1月11日
"The ASP.NET QuickStart is a series of ASP.NET samples and supporting commentary designed to quickly acquaint developers with the syntax, architecture, and power of the ASP.NET Web programming framework. The QuickStart samples are designed to be short, easy-to-understand illustrations of ASP.NET features. By the time you finish reading this tutorial, you will be familiar with the broad range of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0, as well as the features that were supported in earlier versions."
"Welcome to the .NET Inspector, brought to you by Code Architects and the 2TheMax Team. Use this browser to explore all the assemblies, namespaces, types, and members in version 1.1 and 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework; quickly determine which items have been added, removed, or modified from previous version; explore the .NET class library with search criteria that more flexible than those offered by the Visual Studio .NET object browser; learn more about each item by hovering the mouse on it."
"The focus of StrongTypes is to discuss and provide free, friendly, expert .NET Generics help. Generics is a new addition to the .NET Framework 2.0 and CLR that allows for type-safe code. Strongly typed code will not only decrease the overhead caused by type casting and late binding, but will also reduce the ammount of errors in your code."
1月6日
"Many developers are familiar only with the high-level .NET frameworks like Web Forms and Web services that sit at the very top level of the ASP.NET hierarchy. This article discusses the lower-level aspects of ASP.NET and explains how requests move from Web Server to the ASP.NET runtime and then through the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline to process requests."
I took the test on December 20th. It took me about 2 hours once I got past the introduction screen. You will either know the stuff or you won't...
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