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PDC2008: Reactions to ASP.NET 4.0 upcoming features presentation
I’m listening/watching this video on Channel9 which is on the ASP.NET 4.0 preview. Scott Hunter is the main presenter (at least at the beginning). This will probably be a little different of a post by me... Web Forms Did he say "HTML Standards Compliant?" (cool!) ClientIDs will be controlled by us (no more mangling... Hurray!) Moving away from table-based controls and using CSS2 adapters (sort of... invisibly) URL Routing (yawn... We have this...
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The worst thing about Azure...
Ok, I’m digging into Azure (and this will be a really quick post) and seeing what all it is. Thus far I am intrigued (although I have seen some of this coming). In case you aren’t following the PDC happenings, Azure is the MS OS in the clouds? More like a server in the clouds, but still. Basically they have spun a number of their server products into the clouds, so now there will (for instance) a SQL Server that is available from the cloud. I read some mentioning of SharePoint as well. But there is one thing that...
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TUX Meeting 3 - Nov. 12th
Our next meeting will be on Wed. Nov. 12th. The responses that we got for changing the meeting was inconclusive (so we’ll talk about it next meeting feel free to email me if you can’t make it). We’re trying a small experiment for the next meeting. We are doing an "Implementation meeting" which is to say "Show us your UI and why you think it provides a good UX! (or maybe it doesn’t and you need advice)" Shawn will also do a short designer-friendly topic (not sure what he’s doing, but the big block of time is for your...
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Data and Services With Silverlight 2 review...
[First of all THIS is my 500th post... nothing more to say there... except that it took me a lot longer than many of my blogging heroes, but this is the pace I have to take and not have lousy content... and yes, sometimes I’ve blogged too often and proved that too often for me == lousy content] So last night I finished "Data and Services With Silverlight 2" by John Papa. You may be wondering how I could have finished this book since it hasn’t been published. Well, I’m a tech reviewer for the book. I had a...
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Dear Google/Live Search/Yahoo Search/And anyone else
I have been a big fan of your services for a long time and have used each of you off and on. Google right now you have my business and that ad revenue you currently get from me using your search may be in jeopardy. The first one of you to ban (yes, ban!) people like Experts-exchange or SqlServerCentral from all searches where I am looking for a tech answer will get my business... Seriously, they are a bane to your business as they pollute the search results. Whenever I click on a link that implies that there...
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Tampa User eXperience (TUX) - 10-8-2008 - Agenda
This Wednesday, we are having our second TUX meeting! Bill Reiss will be doing a talk on Silverlight2 (with a little more design emphasis than my JavaScript talk last month). We are addressing some of the things raised in the survey (and haven’t addressed them all yet). In light of this new format we will also be introducing some smaller talks along with the main speaker. So here’s the agenda: - Arrive between 6:30 and 7:00pm, for a social time and with food (thank you, TekSystems) - Welcome by me and introduction of TekSystems (who is...