Jon Galloway

With all the AJAX / Web 2.0 hype lately, I've been thinking about what's next for Javascript (the J in AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript And XML), a.k.a. ECMAScript.

I saw the the  DotNetRocks Roadtrip in San Diego Thursday night. It was a fun and informative time. Carl Franklin's info on VB.NET 2005 was interesting. Most of it was just general VS 2005 / CodeRush info, which was just great for me. Richard Campbell is a hilarious speaker and gave a great overview of the Windows Mobile platform and devices, which helped make some sense of a pretty disorganized space (Smartphone 2003, Smartphone 2003 SE, Windows Mobile 5, CDMA, GPRS, EDGE, etc.). I went home played with wrote VS2005 / Smartphone apps for my Audiovox SMT5600. Fun stuff.

Here's the blog worth of every feed on the weblogs.asp.net OPML, with code included to keep it on topic (webrequest, xml, and regex). We can be done with this now.

I blogged about the DevAge Source Pack this past summer when it was in Beta 1. The DevAge Source Pack 1.0.0.0 has just been released now - download it and try out the demos.

Great new extension for Firefox that opens an IE Tab. Comments indicate it may be a bit quirky, which shouldn't be surprising since it's kind of a hack. It's working great for me in Firefox 1.5. I just ran Windows Update with no problems. Of course you're really running IE embedded in a tab, but fewer open windows means less clutter on the screen and on the taskbar, which is all good news.