Brian Ritchie's Blog

For the past few years, I've been using Sharepoint for my development portal.  However, it doesn't seem to be the best tool for building out documentation on our development projects.  A Wiki seems like a much better choice.  I've started using ScrewTurn Wiki.  It is written in .NET 2.0 and is very nice.  ScrewTurn is very lightweight, easy to use, looks great, and has no need for a database.  The next major release will add plug-in support and a number of other features. Give it a try...I think you'll be impressed.

It looks like Microsoft seems the benefits of the Wiki approach too and is adding Blog and Wiki support to Sharepoint Services Beta 2 Refresh.  That should keep things interesting.

I wish I could have attended the Mono Meeting up in Cambridge, but it wasn't in the cards.  It looks like it was a great meeting.  These links aren't the same as being there, but they are pretty good.

Meeting slides are available...
http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2006/Oct-26.html

Video of the meeting...
http://revfry.com/stuff/MonoConf/

On a related note, here's a new podcast on Mono:
http://mono-cast.com/

Well, GMail is down for me tonight...and Hotmail is up.  I'm glad to see Microsoft is doing something right.  ;-)  And look...Google wants me to cross my fingers and hope I get access to my email again.

Server Error

This is the first time I've seen this error, but it looks like lots of folks have been seeing it.
http://my2cents.gawaher.com/gmail-server-error.html

 Hopefully this is an anomaly...I was really starting to count on gmail.

Implementing AJAX is definitely all the rage.  Everyone has heard of Microsoft's Atlas Framework, and most have seen Ajax.net Professional, but have you checked out OutPost yet?

 It is a simple way to AJAX-enable both your 1.1 and 2.0 applications.  Just add the following:

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    OutPost.Ajax.Enable();
}

In other words..."That was easy!"