Jeff Makes Software
The software musings of Jeff Putz
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An ASP.NET AJAX "ah ha" moment
I've been forcing myself to focus on really diving into the meat of the ASP.NET AJAX framework, and today I had a breakthrough moment.
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Jobs on DRM
Steve Jobs says we should ditch DRM...
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Quality time with ASP.NET AJAX
I've been playing with the new AJAX extensions quite a bit lately, and overall I'm impressed. In terms of doing post-back-ish type stuff, it's so ridiculously easy to do everything you did before, only without having the full page refresh. That makes you look like an all-star for almost no cost.
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Is BillG living in a bubble?
I'm a huge Bill Gates fan, and would go as far as to say he was the first reason I went to Mix06 last year. But this quote has me a little concerned...
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CoasterBuzz.com joins Federated Media
While this is largely something that satisfies my ego, I wanted to share that CoasterBuzz.com is now “out” as a Federated Media partner, the firm that represents Digg, Ars Technica, and the ever popular Ask A Ninja. It’s pretty exciting to be in the company of sites like that, even though mine is so much smaller in scale.
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The change in FormsAuth I never knew about
Obviously I missed the boat somewhere along the line. I realized today that I've never used FormsAuthentication in an ASP.NET v2.0 application before. As it turns out, it doesn't work the same as it used to.
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Why would .ASPXAUTH be ignored?
I've developed a strange problem. I'm using FormsAuthentication to login users. I persist the .ASPXAUTH cookie and set its expiration to today plus 30 days.
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Why UI design first is important
Like most developers, I work with other developers. Most are computer sciency and kick ass when it comes to class design and architecture. The problem with this is that this creates a UI design culture that is not always optimal.
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No suits for me
Mark Cuban can be obnoxious, but I'm right behind him on this one:
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Making things pretty
I hired a designer to make some rockin' icons (thanks, Jenna!) for the forthcoming POP Forums v8. It's kind of weird how taking a break from the hardcore coding to make things pretty is a very motivating force. It's like the entire thing becomes more real at that point.