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Tonight's meeting was filled with great content!  Although we had a modest number show for the meeting, among the attendees were Tim Heuer, Dave Campbell, Scott Cate, Scott McElroy, Simon Allardice, and Steele Price.

In my latest video, I demonstrate how to create a Silverlight application that displays Twitter messages from various Twitter users.  You will learn how to make calls to an open source Twitter API via AJAX Page Methods, and display the results with faded text effects.

Here are my highlighted blog posts of interest in January 2008:

On day two of teaching Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 at [itt], I implemented a newly discovered feature that allows students to easily follow along in the class - Windows Meeting Space. 

This week I am teaching Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 at [itt].

After reading an older blog post by Scott Cate, I was curious if the apply function in Javascript would work if no arguments were defined in the calling function.  It turns out that it does work.  Consider the following javascript:

How important is your reputation?

I have been a long time user of ListPro from IliumSoft.  However, I was "misusing" ListPro.  What I really needed was the features found in their product called eWallet.  I need the ability to sync (not overwrite) sensitive data between my PC and my mobile phone.  I also wanted the UI to be as simple as possible to use.  After reviewing the product features, and running the trial version on my PC, I made the decision to purchase it and the smartphone version.  After installing the product on both PC and mobile phone (Motorola Q, Windows Mobile 5.0), I quickly attempted to sync.