Archives
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Trying out Google Apps
I got approved to try Google Apps today. I decided I'd try out using Gmail as my mail server on the CoasterBuzz.com domain. So far, I like what I see.
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A POP Forums milestone
This evening I successfully made a post and reply with a newly registered account in POP Forums v8. It even logged the security actions.
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The wonders of data binding in ASP.NET v2
One of the things that really got me excited about .NET v2 in early 2004 was the more declarative approach to coding ASP.NET pages. I like the idea of having a solid class library and then using as little code as possible in the actual page to get things done. The basic SqlDataSource in combination with various UI controls are great examples, but these barely scratch the surface of the cool things you can do.
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Republican spammers
The GOP is spamming me. They're sending e-mail, with embedded tracker pixels, and no unsubscribe link.
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Wisdom of crowds my ass
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Reporting on massive amounts of data in real time: Need input
Since I've been in the content business online for eight years or so, advertising is the life line that pays the bills. Not my first choice since it has been relatively unstable since the start, but it is what it is.
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No Xbox Live networking in XNA
From the XNA FAQ:
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The easy way, the hard way and the fast way
Between my personal projects and those at my daytime gig, I've had a lot of discussions lately about how to write code. You can do things the easy way, the hard way and the fast way.The
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Developer snobbery revisited
My last post seemed to rile up a few people, which is not entirely surprising since I used strong language about something that, in the big picture, probably isn't that important. There are really two things I think about when I look back at the comments in that post.
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Fire the person that wrote this documentation
I generally have the opinion that Microsoft documentation has gotten a lot better, but then I run into crap like this...
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A decision for POP Forums
I've been thinking a lot about what I really want to do with POP Forums when I finally finish v8. The truth is, because it's actually the center piece of the various sites I run, it holds up everything else for me, and that's kind of been torturing me for the better part of two years now.
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The turning point for Apple: The Microsoft alliance
This was the coolest thing I've seen in awhile. YouTube has the MacWorld announcement where Steve Jobs returned to Apple, and announced its alliance with Microsoft. Watch it... it's very interesting.
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Windows Live Writer... so what?
Wow, I'm being a real poopy pants this morning. I clearly need some Mountain Dew or whatever gets keeps to wake up in the morning.
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Make Xbox 360 games, for a price
One of the reasons that Microsoft has been able to break into the video game business is because they've done a good job sleeping with developers. Not literally of course, but they've gone out of their way to help dev shops make the most of the hardware and get their stuff out there. That's why there are so many great games out there.
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Another switcher!
Yeah, another developer who loves his Mac...
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The ASP.NET monkey's feelings about Parallels on an Intel Mac
I'm a little overwhelmed at the amount of e-mail I'm getting about how I like Parallels on my MacBook Pro, which is what I've been using for Visual Studio, SQL Server and Photoshop development. I guess I'm not going into enough detail with my other posts, but that's partly because there's no detail to give.
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Total switch to Parallels
I deleted my Boot Camp partition on my MacBook Pro today. Once I started using Parallels for virtualization, there was no point. Now when I need to use Windows I don't have to reboot, I can share files, and I don't have to occupy some part of the hard disk with a partition that's partially unused. Sure, Parallels wasn't free, but it's a much nicer arrangement. Performance is top notch, and indistinguishable from the partitioned instance.
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And you thought Vista was looking like a colossal failure before
I'm sure I'll be accused of drinking the Apple Kool-Aid (or is it Apple juice?), but I have to say that Microsoft is so ridiculously far behind in making a meaningful gee-whiz operating system that it weighs heavy on me. The company that has brought to me amazing development tools and a superior Web platform has utterly embarrassed me on the OS front.
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I Digg the Kevin Rose story
I've said this before, but I'm really enamored with the whole Digg and Kevin Rose story. Business Week is obviously into it too, as it's their cover story.
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ASP.NET Profile sure has some weird quirks
When you read a property from your Profile provider, you'd think that it will only call the provider's GetPropertyValues method, right? Well as it turns out, it's calling the SetPropertyValues as well, on every call. I can't for the life of me figure out why it would do that.
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Programmatic Profile properties AND groups
First off, thank you to Geoff for pointing me to Fredrik's excellent post on programmatically setting Profile properties. All is well so far, but I'd like to use groups. It appears, however, that it's not as straight forward. I looked at the generated code to see how it's done, but the same code does not apply.
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Are programmatic Profile properties possible?
I really dig Profile in ASP.NET. It's a good system and I'm all about common and easy to use API's. What I don't like is the web.config mess.