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Where have I been? ;) You probably heard the news already form the GU already, but just in case, we will be shipping JQuery with Visual Studio . ASP.NET MVC will have the privilege of being one of the first products to include JQuery. I am glad we finally announced this because I got tired of stifling my mouth everytime someone suggested we just include JQuery. :) As you can see from demos I've done in the past , JQuery will fit nicely with the ASP.NET MVC style of development. Read More...

The internet access I had at my mother-in-law's last time I was in Japan turned out to be a fluke. I am at a Japanese Manga and Internet cafe (because those three things go so well together) right now typing this out. I've received a lot of comments and questions via my blog and once I get to Hong Kong, I will do my best to answer. No promises though as I hear that the pool at the hotel is nice and I do have three talks to prepare. I must admit that not having daily internet access is probably a good thing for me as I'm a total online junkie. :) The next time we visit, I need to remember to bring more reading material. I brought two books on Poker and am tired of reading about it. ;) Read More...

If you happen to be in Asia around October 8-10, I’ll be speaking at Tech-Ed Hong Kong . Come by and say hi. I’m giving three talks, one on each day. October 8 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM ASP.NET MVC - An alternative approach to building Web Applications October 9 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Developing Data Driven Applications Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data October 10 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Write better designed code with Test Driven Development I’m hoping to have a little time after some of my talks to go do a little sight-seeing around Hong Kong. The trip to Hong Kong is actually a side trip from Japan where my wife and kid will stay while I go and and speak at this conference. I’m looking forward to the vacation, but wish I had scheduled the vacation part after the...

As Scott wrote last week , using a punny title I have to admire, he and I (among many others) were both the subject of a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. Looking through my logs, it looks to actually be a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack coming from multiple IP addresses. The attack appears to actually be an attempt at a SQL Injection attack, but for his blog, which stores its data in XML files, that is entirely pointless. For my blog, which doesn’t do any inline SQL, it’s also mostly pointless. So far, the SQL injection part of the attack has failed, but it has succeeded in pegging my CPU. Maybe that’s the actual intended goal. Only the attacker knows. LogParser Queries The first clue (besides my site being down) is that my log file...

It’s been a long time coming, but we are finally ready to release Subtext 2.0. As I mentioned in April (was it that long ago!?), this is scaled down a bit from our original 2.0 plans. But even so, we have a lot of new goodness in here. It’s not just a bug fix release, though there are plenty of those too. Highlights With this release, Subtext has top notch support for Windows Live Writer thanks to some check-ins from Tim Heuer . Enhanced MetaWeblog API implementation to support providing a "slug" URL name for the post. This gives the user the option to use the default URL naming, the "auto-friendly" or now to override that with your own slug name. Fixed a bug in the SiteMap handler for blogs not hosted at root domains. Would...

It’s a quiet friday afternoon with all of our devs in training today, so I figured I’d take a breather and respond to this meme I’ve been tagged with by Keyvan and others. How Old Were You When You Started Programming? Have I even started really programming yet? I guess I got my first taste when I was around eight with my first computer, a TRS-80 Color Computer . That sucker could display 9 colors, all at once, believe it or not. My programming experience back then was pretty minimal. My dad and I mostly spent hours typing in program listings from books, complete with pages of DATA lines consisting entirely of 0s and 1s. Pretty much typing by hand the equivalent of binary resources. I also wrote simple programs that would draw pictures and my...

I credit Google AdSense for really opening up the possibility for small blogs to become sources of passive income. Look around the web and you’ll see nearly every blog sport an AdSense ad or two…or three. For most people, it amounts to a bit of pocket change - maybe enough money for a coffee or an occasional indulgence. But soon, the lure of adding more ads from other ad networks overwhelms publishers and soon blogs start to look more like the movie Idiocracy . A while back, Jeff Atwood wrote about how content is becoming dwarfed by advertisements in his post, A World of Endless Advertisements , which is where I took that photo. I was heading down that path when I read his post and it gave me pause. At that time, I had recently started a new...

…and the feeling’s right. If I can muster up the time and motivation, I like to try and post lighter more humorous fare on Fridays such as my recent RAS Syndrome post . On this beautiful Friday day (is that redundant too?), I started off fresh out of ideas (and motivation) so I wasn’t planning on writing a blog post at all, until this was just handed to me. Which Software Blogger Do Girls Like Better? In this post, Nick Berardi takes a quick look around at the demographic information collected by Google’s new ad planner . Consider for a moment, what this data represents. It is a huge database of information on surfing habits of perhaps nearly the entire Internet, collected via huge data centers consisting of unfathomable computing power (as...

I did another interview with those wild and crazy guys, Carl and Richard . My first time (show 261) being on .NET Rocks was back in August of 2007 when I talked about Subtext, Open Source, and my blog. This time (show 339), the interview focused on my experiences with working at Microsoft and the work I do on the ASP.NET MVC project. Notice that my profile pic hasn’t changed at all. I should do something about that. I haven’t listened to it yet as I hate hearing myself talk. Even worse is seeing myself on video . In any case, if you are interested, take a listen to the latest .NET Rocks show . Technorati Tags: dotnetrocks Read More...

If ever someone was undeserving of having others spend their valuable time translating his blog, it would be me. But hey, some people from the http://blog.joycode.com/ site went ahead and did it anyway . I must admit that I’m very flattered that anyone would put the effort in. Before this, I learned that Subtext powers MySpace China's blogs, and now my blog is translated to Chinese. As David Hasselhoff says, “I’m big in China”. ( To my Chinese audience, that is a joke. I am quite small. ) Technorati Tags: Chinese , China , Blogging Read More...