Archives
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Subversion: Changing log messages
At home, I use Subversion for source control of a small website I maintain for a client. When I commit changes, I always enter a log message that describes the changes I made along with a comment on how long the changes took (for billing purposes). Today, after commiting a change, I realized I had forgotten to enter a duration for the change.
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MonoRail: Accessing built-in helpers from a custom helper
MonoRail comes with a number of "helpers" that assist you in generating views for your controller's actions. Some examples are: FormHelper, which helps you build HTML forms; URLHelper, which helps you build links to other controllers and actions;= and AjaxHelper, which helps with Ajax calls.
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SRT Hosts 4-day C# Jam in April
SRT (the company I work for) is hosting a 4-day C# Jam at our headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan. SRT co-counder and Microsoft Regional Director Bill Wagner will be co-instucting with Bruce Eckel and Jamie King. Registration is limited to 30 participants so register now to guarantee a seat. See Bill's post with all of the details.
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CodeMash in the news
Seems that CodeMash has attracted the local press as well as bloggers.
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CodeMash v2.0.0.8 A Success!
Another CodeMash has come and gone. It was another spectacular event. While I didn't win any of the big prizes, my ticket did get pulled for a free book. I looked around at all of the .NET books but instead settled on "Programming Python" (all 1600 pages of it!). I visited a couple of sessions on Python and it looks like an interesting language that I'd like to learn. Then again, I also downloaded and installed "Ruby on Rails" during Brian Sam-Bodden's "Rails: A Peek Under the Covers" session. I'm a huge fan of MonoRail (I'll never do a webforms app again unless I absolutely have to) and wanted to see the language that provided much of the inspiration for MonoRail.
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Scott Hanselman @ CodeMash
CodeMash was able to snag Scott Hanselman for this afternoon's keynote. As Steven Smith pointed out, Scott's intro slide deck was absolutely hilarious. His main talk on IIS7 was equally good. It's a great talk for those of us who've always thought of IIS as simply a web server. Scott showed us how much IIS7 has improved and should now be considered more of an application server -- for more than just Microsoft technologies (think PHP, Python, Ruby). Very cool.
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Sold Out!
At this mornings CodeMash announcements, Josh Holmes informed us that not only did CodeMash have a 40% increase over last years attendance, but that we've sold out the Kalahari -- the first time the hotel has ever been sold out! CodeMash is an awesome event at a great price. Kudos and thanks to all of those who work so hard to put it together.
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Walking Around
Took a liitle walk down to the convention center. Looks like everything is all set for tomorrow:
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Finally!
I've arrived at the Kalahari resort for CodeMash and after about 20 minutes of fiddling (and moving around the room), I finally found a spot that will hold on to a WiFi connection -- albeit slowly: 5mb transmit and 6mb receive. At least I can get my RSS feeds downloaded!
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CodeMash is almost here!
CodeMash v2.0.0.8 is almost here. I plan on spending tomorrow tweaking my slides and sample code (I'm doing "An Introduction to MonoRail" in the Friday vendor session -- Room D). I've only got 30 minutes and I'd like to include time for questions so if you're really interested in MonoRail, don't forget to check out Jay Wren's "Introducing Castle". He'll be discussing the entire Castle Project (of which MonoRail is just one part) in more detail.
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Screen Recording for free
I was helping a client out with a problem yesterday. They had a spot in their web application where an Ajax request was made and the browser would hang. They could not do anything in the browser until the request had completed -- despite the fact that it was an asynchronous request.
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Multiple web sites on Windows XP
I had a problem this past holiday weekend with a small website I was working on. I was doing some Forms Authentication (custom Forms Authentication in Monorail) and couldn't get part of the code to work unless my website was the "root" website (i.e. http://localhost). Currently, the project is sitting in a virtual directory (http://localhost/virt1).
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Thank You Microsoft!
What a great way to start the new year. Tuesday morning (well, afternoon really) I checked my email and saw the following subject: