Archives
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Version Switching between 1.1 and Whidbey
I almost forgot to mention the handiest utility for anyone who installs the .NET 2.0 Framework: Denis Bauer's ASP.NET Version Switcher. Since it is simply a beautiful GUI for the command-line aspnet_regiis.exe utility, it works great for switching all your applications between 1.0, 1.1 and now 1.2x. Go get it!
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ASP.NET 2.0
Finally, the cone of silence is lifted.
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Grand Rapids .NET User Group Presentation: Distributed .NET
Slides
The slide deck I used was a combination of decks by Clemens Vasters and Steve Swartz. While my presentation was designed to teach the patterns and language of all varieties of distributed development, theirs are focused on code and data respectively. -
Home Page Updates in RSS
I'm not much of a repeat site visitor. News and blogs are in the daily routine but little else. For sure not with any consistency. By the same token I can't expect friends or family to stay up to date with changes on my site. So I've added an RSS feed to erobillard.com.
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CanCon Junction
Background: Gerry and Larry are at a Canadian music awards show. Larry blurts out that "Nickelback is the new Triumph." A half glass of gin and tonic was up Gerry's nose by the time Larry says, "It's all cyclical, man." And so the games began. Warning: Excessive Canadian content may confuse foreigners.
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Meet! Grand Rapids User Group, October 21
Who: Eli
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Community? Further defined.
In the last segment the key to communities was defined (it's about identity), and today we look at the taxonomy at the next level. The hardest part for people to figure out is “why would someone want to do it that way?” We identify only with our own experience, it is hard to understand the preferences of other people. The only thing to do is to ignore all sense of “good” and “bad” and move on to identifying the subtleties, whatever they are. No one's asking you to live in their world, just understand it. The two factors that differentiate communities are style of participation and type of audience (or "location of the ego").
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Community? Identity.
A lot of people write and talk about “Community.” “How to Jumpstart a Community.” “How to Nurture a Community.” “The Ideal Community.” The murkiest part is always answering the question, “What is community?”