March 2008 - Posts
I have long had a love affair with the Data Access Application Block, DAAB since it was first release way back in the old days. Since then it has become part of the Enterprise Library and supported and maintained by the Patterns and Practices Group. Today
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I hate several things about programming in the .NET stack, well not really that they affect me now. But it is really some of the ways we teach new .NET programmers to program in the .NET stack. Primarily it relates to the way we teach newbies how to manager
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At least in my history of programming I have always concatenated paths as I build them in my code. A good example of this is deciding where to store uploaded photos in a photo album. There are really two paths that need to be managed, the physical path
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Thought I would bring this back again and see if it was popular or not this time around. So many things to link to now that MIX is done. IE 8 Installation Information Text and Data Compression - Kind of interesting that we only gain compression on the
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One of the show stoppers from MIX 08 was the release of Deep Zoom or Sea Dragon for Silverlight. If you happened to have seen the PhotoSynth demonstration at TED last year you have been aware of the technology for at least a year now. I needed some help
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I have found it really interesting to learn the background of some of the great programmers in the world and for those in the mid 30s, like me, many seem to have started on the Timex Sinclair 1000 . Oh the many hours I spent trying to get programs written
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During the Raleigh Code Camp you may have noticed the earth shook for a split second as Brian Hitney announced to the throngs gathered at the closing session for the Code Camp that our very own, and good friend of mine, Jim Duffy has been made a Microsoft
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I seriously think I spent as much if not more time at Mix in the Open Space area than my hotel room. The reason is this seemed to be the place to find anyone. My friend Peter posted some of the recordings done in the Open Space area, which two feature
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I read Dilbert every day, it adds levity to my technical life. Besides I cannot watch Office Space every day can I? Today's Dilbert was funny, but makes a very important point about why software development is so much different than just about any other
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Last week at Mix 08 I got to meet Nikita Polyakov , a student from the University South Florida. He was running around doing candid interviews for Channel 8 , Microsoft's new site to reach out to students with technology. I noticed he posted a couple
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When I first started on my own web development and hosting business 8 years ago I had no clue about was DNS or Domain Name Servers worked. To that point I also had very little knowledge about registering and maintaining domains. I have talked about registering
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My good friend Josh Carlisle has been very busy working on a SharePoint User Group Portal over the past few months. He recently posted a sneak peak at what he has done and a little insight into how it works. The portal allows administrators to customize
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I did a sort of impromptu presentation on httpModules Thursday at Mix 08. The Open Spaces Crew has posted the httpModule presentation on the Mix site for you to view. I run through three of the modules I wrote about in my upcoming WROX BLOX on httpModules.
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During the first keynote at Mix 08 the Internet Explorer team officially rolled out the first public viewing of Internet Explorer 8 . There are some really nice things that will be offered in IE 8, like CSS 2.1 comparability, ACID2, etc. But what I found
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So when you attend a conference or just about any event you seem to either hear phrases repeated often, or just something that will live in infamy in your clique. For me Mix 08 was no different, so I thought I would compile a list to remember the trip
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I love to Twitter and I admit that I am an addict. I have gotten to the point I hate having to open the site anymore. I recently starting thinking of writing a little .NET Twitter viewer myself. But I figured I was already behind on that and I am. I found
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Last night I got to visit the Code Trip Bus before it took off to Salt Lake City. This bus is a multi-city tour by several of the Developer Evangelist on the West Coast. they are starting here at Mix and running up and down the West Coast stopping at
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Last night I had a very special treat to a backstage tour of the Cirque de Sole Beatles show. Brian Hitney , our wonderful Carolinas Developer Evangelist, has an old friend that works on the show. Katie took us through various aspects of the show, from
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Much about coming to Mix 08 or other conferences is networking and making great friends. Last night I had a fantastic dinner at David Burke in the Venetian with several of the Microsoft Architectural Evangelists. The meal was great and the conversations
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Good day so far, learned more about IE8 Activities and WebSlices. I like both technologies and I 'should' have something up to demonstrate them very soon (this is called keeping me accountable). After that session I did a presentation myself. I have not
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Another fun, excited, busy day at Mix. I just spent some time playing Tom Cruise with a Wii. My friend Galen Murdock has some employees that built an application using WPF, batting gloves, a few gadgets from RadioShack and a Wii that mimics the Minority
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The topic recently came up where I was asked how I set up multiple sites on the same port and IP address in IIS. There are two separate threads on how this works, first is setting the web site to respond to the primary domain and the www alias or more
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Ok, so I am almost 0 for 2 with the first two sessions. Oh well I will catch them tomorrow or just download them to the Zune for the trip home. I went to 10 minutes of David Ebbo's Dynamic Data Controls session and realized it was almost identical to
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So now I have eaten some lunch and I am charging my laptop in the Sandbox/OpenSpace waiting on my first breakout session. I am going to 'Developing Data Driven Applications Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data Controls'. But I wanted to jot down the things I took
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So this week I am in Las Vegas at MIX08 . Right now I have just finished breakfast and I am waiting on the Keynote to start at 9:30, which is.......really 12:30. There is a 3 hour difference for me. I stayed up for 21 straight hours yesterday, and had
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