July 2003 - Posts
So I just watched the video (thanks Julia) for the VB.NET Whidbey. My ears hurt from the scretching, and my eyes hurt from squinting, and I had a good chuckle at how easy those smart tags are working :)
I'll have to see the smart tag data binding stuff to believe it doesn't suck, but the debugging features I have to admit are looking pretty swell. I never much relied on edit and continue in VB6 to fix bugs, but it was definitely nice to have available when you forgot a slash in a path, or notice you needed to add something while debugging.
I knew I shouldn't have watched the video though, because now I'm itching to get my hands on it and play around. It's like sneaking a look at christmas presents or something.
If anyone has some info on how to get involved with the beta for Whibdey, I'd love to hear it of course :)
Does anybody have a recommendation for a tool like InfoPath, but for the web? ASP.NET, ASP.OLD, PHP, Perl, whatever. We get a lot of questions like this: "We need to create a survey on our website that would put data into our blah blah blah database. What class should I take?" And the answer is never easy. We are talking like power users of Excel or Frontpage. But even still, in my head I know I could knock that out in probably three hours in ASP.NET. But it would take someone at least 6 months of hard work to get to even a beginning understanding of ASP.NET, ADO.NET and C#/VB.NET.
Some company is going to make a killer app that does this, be rolling in the cash and have a lot of contractors really pissed off.
I have a small favor to ask to those on the (not) echo group. Can we call "feeds" wafers. Like necho wafers. That would really make my day.
I even promise not to tell everyone I invented the standard if you adopt my idea.
My semi-legit suggestion would also make it so you can somehow provide a css link for your feeds (optional of course) in the description. Having everyone's posts displayed differently really takes "something" away from the experience when reading in an aggregator. It's like you loose part of the personality of the poster when all you get is 12pt verdana, black text on white letters.
Now obviously some people want to see everything in black text and white background, they frankly don't care about the personality of the poster. Their aggregator could just ignore the css stuff.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1234206
Looks like .NET is going away, and has been useless all along. In response to 99% of the comments on that post:
Slashdot, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Sorry about this post. If I didn't do something about it, the thought would have rattled around in my brain slowly destroying my soul unable to escape. I'm better now. Thank you.
It appears Safari is adding a lot of Que's training guide books, including Mike's 70-310 training guide. In the past two weeks I think I've gotten at least seven people to sign up from my classes at work. I wish I would have given them another shot earlier than I did.
Anyone know if the 70-229 training guide is any good? I'd grab it and flip through it, but it takes up two slots and I'm just not in the position to be throwing away slots on my bookshelf.
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