April 2007 - Posts
I just finsihed a session on monetizing sites with the Virtual Earth API. It was pretty good, I got to see how some companies like TripHub.com and Redfin.com have integrated the map API into their sites to provide a much richer user expereince. I went
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So after the keynote Rob and I decided to head to the Sandbox so I could get my copies of Vista Ultimate and Expression Suite (awsome!). We ran into Todd Fine, Jeff Prosise and Peter Ludauti while we were there. It was good to talk to them about what
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The main keynote just wrapped up and there were a lot of really cool demos and some offical announcements. The main thing is the official announcement of Silverlight and the .NET CLR being available in IE, FireFox, Opera and Safari, which means .NET can
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I got in in the evening Las Vegas time last night and got to visit some of the sites around the strip. This is a very fun place, but that goes without saying. I am starting to meet some people and learning that I am no good at MLB 2K7 on the XBox, I had
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I am real excited as this week winds to a close. I will be heading to Las Vegas and Mix on Sunday. I plan on trying to do as much live Blogging and photo posting as I can. Also this weekend Richmond will be holding their third Code Camp . Unfortunately
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The Blog entries are going to be few and far between for a few days as I am finishing content for my ASP.NET 2.0 book this week and heading to Mix next week. I have a collection of links from last week I want to share. Excuse me as the descriptions will
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Finally we will be having the second Raleigh-Durham Code Camp June 23rd at the Raleigh ECPI campus . I cannot tell you how excited the area user group, www.trinug.org , is about the event. We have had a real difficult time finding a suitable location
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First let me apologize for missing the links last week, I was on vacation in the early part of the week and I think many others were out last week as well. There were not many things that caught my eye by last Saturday, but I think we made up for it this
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I think the hottest book in the software development at the moment world may not have any source code in it all, Why Software Sucks… and what you can do about it by David S. Platt . I got this book in the beginning of February, at a Microsoft event
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This month’s main meeting will feature Brian Hitney , Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist for the Carolina’s. Brian worked as part of the Vista group in Redmond until he recently took the DE position for the area last fall. I have gotten
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If you ever come across this error you can you can usually resolve it pretty quickly, but most likely it will crop up again. The InvalidCastException, “Unable to cast object of type ‘ASP.type’ to ‘ASP.Type’” is an extremely
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One of the things I struggled with early in my coding career and have probably hung onto way too long is the use of some nested if calls. The classic example of the way I have implemented this structure is checking to see if an object exists, then checking
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