May 2007 - Posts
The other day I was visiting www.cars.com doing some UI research. Since I have built a couple of sites with the same functionality as this site, I want to see if there is anything cool they have done. The one thing I took away from my visit was the use
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I want to thank Bill Jones and the other great people in the Charlotte Enterprise Developers Guild for hosting a great Code Camp yesterday. I enjoyed sharing some of my coding practices with a group of developers that were more than eager to learn. I
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I want to thank Justin Gehtland for speaking to the TRINUG this week about Ruby and exposing our group to the cool stuff in Ruby and the Dynamic language movement. Justin is a great speaker and extremely knowledgeable about not only Ruby, but may deep
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So enough with the news and opinion that is Silverlight this week, let's do some coding. I thought I would start with the basics, the traditional Hello World example. The first thing you need to do is install Visual Studio Orcas, then install the
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First, I said this would happen in my 2006 Year in Review , but it looks like Microsoft will be purchasing Yahoo for between $50-60 billion dollars. This is a good move for both involved. I have really been noticing Yahoo being more and more open to .NET
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Mix 07 was probably the most exciting experience I have ever had at a conference. The big rollout of Silverlight and seeing how to actually use it was just simply amazing. I was sort of half asleep and half awake thinking about how I could use Silverlight
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Just finished a session with Jeff Prosise showing some great tricks with some very custom AJAX JavaScript using the ASP.NET AJAX Base Class Library. very good stuff. Jeff was a little worried about it being outdated already with the release of SilverLight.
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How Silverlight and .NET framework will be a two and a half hour session, so this will be part 1. They will be covering how this works. Right now he is talking about the characteristics of a RIA application. He is talking about Outlook Web Access and
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Rob and I were out late last night, in bed by 11:30! But when you consider we are East Coast guys that is pretty late. We enjoyed dinner with Mark Dunn , a Regional Director from Atlanta and former co-host of the popular DotNetRocks Podcast. That was
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