I’m flying to San Jose tonight for tomorrow’s OpenAjax Alliance face to face meeting , which Microsoft is hosting. On Friday, we are also hosting a new event that aims at establishing a dialogue between JavaScript library developers and Microsoft. We’ll have talks from the IE, Visual Studio and ASP.NET teams, as well as talks from members of the community. This should be very interesting. Then I’ll be flying to L.A. for the PDC . If you’re going to be there and want to chat, feel free to drop me a note at bleroy at Microsoft. I’ll be in the room during Stephen Walthers ’ session on jQuery and ASP.NET on Tuesday from 5:15 to 6:30 (403AB). I’ll also do a short demo in Scott Hunter ’s talk on the ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap on Monday from 1:45 to 3:00...
Well, at least a Dot Net Slacker ... My first article on DotNetSlackers just got published. It shows how to handle the back button with ASP.NET Ajax using pure server code. Check it out (registration required): http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ajax/HandlingTheBackButtonFromServerCode.aspx Read More...
I'm very excited to finally be able to point to this post of Nikhil's. I've known about this project from the start and am Super-Ultra-Mega-Excited (this expression (c) Andres Sanabria) about it, but until now I had to keep my mouth shut. JavaScript is in many ways a very powerful language, but it lacks a compile-time (bye bye type checking) and OOP is very unnatural. While some consider it the best language ever, most people who come from C# or Java just go "ugh!" the first time they have to write anything beyond a click event handler with it. Some continue to strongly dislike it even after they've gained expertise with it. I'm not judging, but... Wouldn't it be nice to keep the power of dynamic scripting languages but with all the niceties...