Jeff Makes Software
The software musings of Jeff Putz
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The wonders of data binding in ASP.NET v2
One of the things that really got me excited about .NET v2 in early 2004 was the more declarative approach to coding ASP.NET pages. I like the idea of having a solid class library and then using as little code as possible in the actual page to get things done. The basic SqlDataSource in combination with various UI controls are great examples, but these barely scratch the surface of the cool things you can do.
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Republican spammers
The GOP is spamming me. They're sending e-mail, with embedded tracker pixels, and no unsubscribe link.
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Wisdom of crowds my ass
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Reporting on massive amounts of data in real time: Need input
Since I've been in the content business online for eight years or so, advertising is the life line that pays the bills. Not my first choice since it has been relatively unstable since the start, but it is what it is.
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No Xbox Live networking in XNA
From the XNA FAQ:
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The easy way, the hard way and the fast way
Between my personal projects and those at my daytime gig, I've had a lot of discussions lately about how to write code. You can do things the easy way, the hard way and the fast way.The
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Developer snobbery revisited
My last post seemed to rile up a few people, which is not entirely surprising since I used strong language about something that, in the big picture, probably isn't that important. There are really two things I think about when I look back at the comments in that post.
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Fire the person that wrote this documentation
I generally have the opinion that Microsoft documentation has gotten a lot better, but then I run into crap like this...
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A decision for POP Forums
I've been thinking a lot about what I really want to do with POP Forums when I finally finish v8. The truth is, because it's actually the center piece of the various sites I run, it holds up everything else for me, and that's kind of been torturing me for the better part of two years now.
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The turning point for Apple: The Microsoft alliance
This was the coolest thing I've seen in awhile. YouTube has the MacWorld announcement where Steve Jobs returned to Apple, and announced its alliance with Microsoft. Watch it... it's very interesting.