sfeldman.NET

Counting days to start the session.

I used to be a big fan of Assembly (x86) in the past when doing graphics for the ancient 320x200x256 and later when lecturing about 80x86 to practical engineers. These days I don't do that anymore, but I think knowing the basics does make sense.

This project is nice - it allows to run x86 code in ASP.NET.

Let me first clarify - John Bristowe is a great speaker, but what he was presenting - shame on Microsoft Canada.The topics promised so much, the *real* thing was so disappointing. A few samples:

• Subject: browser support / JavaScript issues. Sample: document.all.placeholder --> common, that's the cross-browser?
• Subject: XHTML and strict mode --> What about how to make VS.NET digest it?...
• Bunch of tools that should be presented at a webcast, not a national tour
• Diagnostics.Debug to trace issues --> what about Diagnostics.Trace for the real tracing? Production?
  
• More...

Now the question - is this the REAL development for web community? Am I missing something? Felt like attending a show for kids, and not developers. No wonder Java community folks are looking at us as armatures. Why it has to take an 'underground' meeting like ALT.NET to address the REAL development? Time to mature for ASP.NET community.

PS: Yes I am furious because I want to move forward and instead get entertained by 'drag-n-drop', with a bunch of developers that are excited about fancy UI showing no idea to go deeper than that.

Today I'm happy to be a team leader. The reason - I managed to convince the management to get ReSharper for all our developers. I'm more than convinced that developers will find it more than useful. The problem is where to send them to have the best and quickest tutorials of the most useful features. If you have links and don't mind to share - grate.

Has anyone tried to write plugins for R#?

This is weird. An assembly with web controls and embedded resources was working fine in WebSite project but not in WebApp project. The request is returned with OK response (200), but absolutely empty. Will post solution once find it :)

One of the books from my reading wish list has finally made it - Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Marin Fowler. Interesting reading so far. The book was advised by JP Boodhoo. I'd love to hear other good books recommendations with preferably less Coffee examples :)

Alt.Net has definitely has generated the hype and excitement (well, at least for me). I heard in ScottGu's lecture thing I wanted to hear for quite long:

• Front Controller implemented
• Requests are routed to Controllers
• Interface based request/response and the WHOLE framework - love it!
• Pluggable (Windsor, Spring)
• Testability and mocking baked in (NUnit, MbUnit, etc)
• Seems like the most of Design Principles were considered
• URL flexibility - mapping to controller with a friendly external names
• Tokenized string (!!! Tokens - later about it)
• Controllers, Models, and Views are organized in folder structure (I can hear Glen saying "Yes!")

Highly recommended to watch the video.

I haven't paid attention to the space in the namespace attribute value and had to spin my wills till found it:

<pages maintainScrollPositionOnPostBack="true">
  <controls>
    <add tagPrefix="Tempo" assembly="Tempo.Web.3.0.1" 
            namespace="Tempo.Web.UI.WebControls "/>

Moral - be accurate with web.config