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Sydney Architecture User Group – Next Meeting: Why Windows Azure is not just Generic Brand Web Hosting
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:46 PM
The Sydney Architecture User Group is having its second meeting this month on Thursday, 26th November. Full details can be found on our new (but very simple) website located here ( http://thesaug.org ). You can subscribe to the monthly email and also indicate your intention to come by selecting the RSVP option (which would be really nice if you did :-) ) Here... Read More...
Sample chapter from upcoming book
Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:59 PM
There is a sample chapter from my upcoming book on all things performance related within the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the book will be about performance testing, profiling and optimisation for web and desktop applications developed using Microsoft.NET. This sample chapter is just a teaser and the book itself goes into great detail about how to setup... Read More...
SAUG – Sydney Architecture User Group
Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:28 AM
The first meeting of the Sydney Architecture User Group is going to be held on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009, form 6.00pm to 8.00pm, at the Grace Hotel , 77 York st, Sydney. ( Link to map ) It will be housed in one of the very nice function rooms they have. Food and drink will be provided. Omar Besiso and myself will be hosting the event, with all funding and... Read More...
ASP.NET v4 Presentation Deck and Demo’s
Friday, October 02, 2009 1:13 PM
My ASP.NET v4 New Features overview presentation that I delivered at Sydney Deep .Net User Group ( http://sdnug.org ) is available for download here ( http://sdnug.org/presentations/200910.zip ). Note: If the above link returns a 404 error, please try here instead. It covers almost every single new feature that will be covered in ASP.NET v4 in the next release... Read More...
Animated SiteMap Ajax Control
Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:18 PM
Today, I finally released on Codeplex a control that I had been working on over a year ago, called the Animated SIteMap Control . Its an AJAX Control toolkit control and it has been prototype form for a very long time now. I had planned on releasing it into the AJAX Control toolkit but I got sidetracked and haven’t touched this in over a year. It works fine and... Read More...
Some interesting links for ASP.NET
Friday, January 09, 2009 4:29 PM
Its been a while since I have done any technical stuff as I have been on holidays, relaxing, and generally a lot of nothing. Certainly nothing technical related and have really enjoyed spending time with friends and family. Over this period, Wally has produced some good material around ASP.NET which I feel obligated to share with you….. (ok, so maybe Wally coerced... Read More...
New ASP.NET Podcast on jQuery support
Saturday, December 06, 2008 3:08 PM
Wally has done another good podcast which can be found here on jQuery support in Visual Studio 2008 and how it compares to ASP.NET AJAX by way of some simple examples. jQuery is a great AJAX library and well worth investing some time in getting familiar with. In fact, you can start right now by listening to the podcast :-) Read More...
Debugging Silverlight apps using WinDbg
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:29 AM
While working on a silverlight application for my current engagement, we were seeing some weird memory issues and application crashes. I won't bore you with the initial investigation of the issue, but it turns out we need to delve deep into what was going on behind the scenes. A fellow colleague and friend, Miguel Madero , was also encountering similar issues... Read More...
WCF, IErrorHandler and propagating faults
Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:12 PM
On a recent project, I have needed to set up a generic error handler just above the service layer which ensured that only known exceptions were propagated up to the client in a controlled manner. This post contains information about how to write an IErrorHandler , but more importantly, it does contain an important point at the end about its implementation that... Read More...
EOAST - Evolution of a software thingy - Part 3
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:54 AM
This is the the third instalment of my experiences and ideas around the development of a piece of software to initially satisfy my disappointment around Outlook and also to allow me to play with some new technologies and making them all work together. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here . This latest instalment will focus a little more into the design detail. The... Read More...
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