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Correction...
[I can't believe I'm writing this post and taking on (somewhat) who I'm taking on... But this needs to be said publicly.] If you haven't read all the buzz... go here and read Sam's thoughts on Martin's Microsoft article. While your at it read the crappy stuff (IMO) that MS is doing to Jamie. Ok, I think that's all the link outs. Before I go any further I have to say that there are some things being said that I absolutely agree... MS Legal has been scaring me more and more by their tactics. By no means am I ignoring...
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Day of Ajax on June 20, 2007... Free MS Training in Tampa!
As you may or may not be aware, I spoke at the Orlando CodeCamp a couple months ago. After which I went to the "meet and greet" where Joe Healy and I talked about a bunch of stuff. Most notably was this idea I had about doing an Ajax conference. The end result was Day of Ajax on June 20th at the MS Offices in Tampa. Joe Healy, Jim Zimmerman, and I will all be presenting. Joe will do an intro to MS Ajax and will follow up later with a talk on Orcas' JavaScript integration. Jim will do his...
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Safari: A Modern Browser
Ok, this is one of my ranting posts. It's been a bit since I ragged on Safari. The main reason I feel the need to do so is: 1) the assinine Mac commercials that make out like the Mac and its software are superior to anything else 2) an article I read on Ajaxian months ago where developers were invited to comment on Safari... after about a dozen or so developers (who think like me) had commented... then the Mac-faithful descended and glowingly declared that Safari was at least on par... [Despite the rant, if you got a solution I...
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I can't wait until Orcas' Javascript Intellisense "arrives"
Ok, so I have been building some stuff with Orcas' JavaScript editor (in beta 1) and I'm sorry to say I'm going back to Aptana Javascript IDE for now. I have read much of the info on it and from working with it it is nearly there, but either the way I'm writing my code doesn't get translated proeprly (Aptana isn't perfect either, but it gets closer). I have intellisense in my JS files which is nice, but when I do something like this: myClass = function(){ // Constructor code}myClass.prototype = { method1 : function() { // No intellisense here }}...
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CodeCamp Tampa 2007: Ajax Challenge help us create the challenge...
So I've had this cool idea, and I wanted to use it for my upcoming Day of Ajax, but we decided that there was already a full schedule, so we are postponing it until CodeCamp Tampa 2007. BTW, the we = "Jim Zimmerman and I" (but we would be happy to include others). Anyway, here's the basic concept : Jim and I will form a team of developers to try to accomplish some task with Ajax. It may be 2 competing teams or it may be 1 team, but regardless the task has to be a challenge, but not so...
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DTAjax : JSP MS Ajax Extensions... Coming Soon...
I'm currently working on a project where I am using the MS Ajax Extensions with JSP (and Servlets). In case you are unfamiliar with the JSP/Servlets technology it's part of that Sun language prototype of C#... I like to think of it as C# -- (that would be pronounced C Sharp minus minus) (Ok, I'm kidding... really I am.. don't send me mean email or mean comments... I'm just joking). I'll try to put together an example for this as well. I am adding to my DTAjax library and will be providing an example of how to use this stuff within JSP pages...
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Vista Thoughts...
Ok, so I have been using Windows Vista for about 1 month now and am feeling comfortable enough with it to state my thoughts on it.
(BTW, my official install happened right before my post on Corporations)
(Oh yeah, BTW, I'm trying out Live Writer with this post... I hope it works better than my last blog editor... [it did... thanks Peek!]).
Short Version
So the short version of my thoughts on Vista is that I like it. It's more secure and it comes with .NET 2.0/3.0... and... uhh... it's pretty and has built-in search...
Long Version
So the long version is this... My favorite feature of Vista...