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regarding Windows 7
I installed the Windows 7 beta 1 the other day on my Mac (and actually now also on my Laptop which had a partition that had been reserved for something else. I’m really not that passionate about new OSes. Brian Peek is way more passionate about this stuff than me. First of all, if Windows 7 wasn’t beta I would buy enough copies to install it on every machine I own. Seriously. To say I like it doesn’t quite say enough. With Vista I had to be convinced and honestly I ran it initially because it gave me some...
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TUX: Next Meeting - Wed. Jan 14th 7:00pm
If you missed the MSDN Flash (thanks, Joe or whoever got us listed... I forgot to do it), here’s what’s going on. Shawn Cady will continue his 8 part series on "What is User Experience?" If you missed the first one you will still get something out of this one. (We will be putting that first one online in the future). This was a great presentation and not to be missed. His first one was very informative, fun, and at times veering into some dangerous territory (we talked about UX on certain types of web sites that a...
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Test Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
[Sorry it’s been a long day and this is a rather stream of consciousness post... ] If you have followed my blogging for any length of time you’ve seen me jousting (sometimes shouting) with the Agile crowd of Testing First. Actually I think my complaints have been more in line with some of the nuances of their architectural advice. We won’t get into that arena right now though. [Digging out my best Katy Perry voice] So, I tried BDD and I liked it Yep, you heard me right. Not only that by I...
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Client-side Scripting 101 Part 1: The Reasons
[Welcome to my multi-part tutorial on. I know I did an introduction earlier in the month, but before we dig in deep into this I thought it would be good to get a few questions out of the way.]
Why is this (Client-side Scripting) all that important to me?
You may be thinking "Hey Jay, my company bought Telerik/Component Arts/Component One/{fill in some other ASP.NET tools suite} and it seems to do everything I need and more. I can see some places where a little client-side code is helpful, but it’s not that important, is it?"
Well, I’m definitely not one to...