.Avery Blog

Last Post!

Well, I am finally making the jump. With the help of Scott's great blogging engine .Text and the guys at SecureWebs I have a new website and blog up and running. All of my future posts will be found over there, and hopefully with Scott's help I will figure out a way to import all my old posts from here. (otherwise they will still be available here)

I have been planning on moving out on my own for a long time, it does not have anything to do with the GotDotNet folks coming over here... I think they will only make this site that much better. The reason I am moving is because I have been wanting to blog about more personal things, but I have held back because I did not want to pollute the main feed.

I thought about keeping this blog here and cross posting .NET feeds, but the main feed is busy enough and it annoys me when I read something twice in my aggregator, so I won't subject anyone else to that pain. Thanks to Scott W. for the awesome blogging engine and starting this community in the first place.

My new blog is at http://www.dotavery.com/blog, hope to see you there.

-James

P.S. If you are into game development be sure to check out http://www.gamedevblogs.com a new site I put together.

.NET Nightly 69

• Avalon Screen Saver Contest winners available - Very cool, need to check these out on the longhorn install. (via Marco Russo)
• FeedDemon 1.0 Goes Gold - About time, cause I got $30 (or however much it is going to cost) burning a hole in my pocket.
• Chapter 2: Preparing for "Longhorn" - Nice Article with alot on SOA and services in general.

.NET Nightly 68

.NET Nightly 67

• Annotations Service - The newest thing posted on MSDN lab, this is the service used when you post comments on something in the longhorn SDK, and apparantly you can load external RSS feeds as well.
• Understanding Microsoft's Caching Application Block - Good article on one of the more neglected application blocks. (via Colt Kwong)
• Using NDoc with .NET CF - I wish I had more time to mess around with the .NET CF (via Nino the Mobile Pimp)

-James

.NET Nightly 66

-James

.NET Nightly 65

• Shadowfax - A service oriented reference architecture being built by Microsoft.
• Smartphone Developer Kit - Includes a pre-commercial phone, but what are the specs already? (via frankarr's place)
• Develop for Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphone Using the .NET Compact Framework - Now I just need a smartphone with 2003 (hint: not the motorola)
• Examining the skmMenu Server Control - Scott Mitchell throws down 28 pages of server control goodness.

.NET Nightly 64

• DirectX Next On The Way - I wonder if this will be what we see on the XBox 2
• Using Http Modules to Combat Leeching - Interesting idea on how to stop people from leeching your images and resources.
• Visual Studio .NET 2003 Automation Samples - Code samples that show how to build macros, wizards, and add-ins, very cool!

.NET Nightly 63

• Tablet UML - First release is now available for download and purchase, looks very awesome.
• A First Look at Writing and Deploying Apps in the Next Generation of Windows - The only article from this month's MSDN magazine currently available online.
• Visual XPath - Nice looking XPath tool. (via Scott)

.NET Nightly 62

• Maximizing .NET Performance - A new book from our friends at Apress and Nick Wienholt.
• Win 32 API Timers for .NET - Not sure what the time resolution of this method is vs. the QueryPerformanceCounter, but I need to find out.
• Java Versus .NET - SDTimes has on article on how it will most likely be Java and .NET instead of Java vs. .NET (via TheServerSide)

.NET Nightly 61

• divil.co.uk Windows Forms Controls - These look awesome, and they are free.
• Dino Esposito's WebLog - Awesome! I guess he got tired of people telling him to blog.
• Exploring the Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit - Joel Semenuik walks you through best of this awesome resource.