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ASP.NET Cookbook
The ASP.NET Cookbook is finally 100% complete and submitted to the publisher, SAMS (as of 2/26/03). This has been quite an undertaking, and having completed the longest and hardest phase of the book writing process (author review remains, but is not nearly as arduous), I must once again say that I never want to write another book. Of course, I said that after writing ASP.NET By Example, too... So what changed my mind last time? Well, it's a bit of a story.
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Idiots at the Mic - More news from the MVP Summit
Since I'm in a foul mood and I am procrastinating finishing my book, I just thought I'd write a quick note to express my disapproval for the MVPs at last week's summit who thought that the opportunity to ask questions of Microsoft executives was actually an opportunity for them to look impressive (or perhaps just stupid) to their peers. The first such idiot, who was a frequent attendant to the mic, thought it would impress his friends to quiz Bill Gates on whether or not he could remember this guy's name from the last summit. As if Mr. Gates has nothing more important to remember - quit wasting his time. I don't even remember what this guy asked because, like everyone else in the audience, I was stunned that someone could be such an ass. Other MVPs (whom I won't call names because they were civil) championed personal crusades for VB6 and Windows 98 at every opportunity to voice a question, which was ok the first time, but grew old over the course of the day. Finally, the MVP who asked Steve Ballmer a question about how Microsoft would improve its image on the security front, and who received a ten minute long answer in return that went into great detail, should have said "Thank you" and sat down. Instead, he had the gall to say "I'm not satisfied with your answer." I think Mr. Ballmer more than answered the question, especially considering the time constraints he was working under, and at any rate I thought it was pretty rude to disregard everything he had just said like that.
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Blogs R Kewl
I just thought I'd write something quick to tell Scott Watermasysk that he has a pretty cool thing going here with these blogs. Having thus buttered him up, I thought I'd also rant a bit about the fact that even though I tell the login to remember me, it doesn't, and that there is thus no way for me to find the link to the Admin section for my blog except to remember it and type in the URL. When can we expect these trivial problems to be fixed, Scott, hmmmm? :)
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MVP Summit Aftermath
I had a good time at the MVP Summit last week; it was my first. I have some pictures to upload but they're still on my camera at the moment. However, I wanted to reference a few other folks' pics now before I lose the URLs, and I'll come back and edit this later to add my own.
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Regular Expressions
Regular expressions are very powerful, and are one of my favorite tools to use because they are so flexible and they can be used regardless of whether one is a .NET developer or a Unix shell scripter or a Java developer or whatever. As I started getting into regular expressions for validation controls, I noticed that there wasn't any online library for these expressions, which of course meant that a lot of people were reinventing the wheel. How many times do different people need to come up with the same (or very close) expression for an email address or a ZIP code, for crying out loud? So I used this problem to test out my then-novice ASP.NET skills and created an online regular expression library, RegExLib.com.
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First Post!
This would be my obligatory first post to Scottw's awesome new DotNetWebLogs site! I hope to return and add more content once I finish up my *$#&#@# second ASP.NET book. By the way, if you ever hear me say that I'm writing another ASP.NET book, smack some sense into me. Please. :)