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  • [dScribe] some thoughts

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    Two things on dScribe. I am working on the next version, which will be more oriented on fixing the bugs. The main new function will be the Article type in the Content section.

    Indeed I had this type in the actual version but it was not properly implemented like the two other (Link and Headline).
    I surely need to write an explanation on how to use the Article type because it's obviously different from the other.

    I continue also to debug a max on all I can find, but here I seriously need your help if you use dScribe.

    Rick Ratayczak let me a note on the Bug tracker about missing the ProjectId field in some stored procedures. As I replied to him, I don't need this field in every sp. But yes maybe I missed one somewhere. I have more than 50 SPs now, so yes I do mistakes ;-)

    So my request is that people let me know about bugs, and be explicit (e.g. condition on how they find the bug and the page where this happens).

    The next update (Beta 1.1) will be for this Saturday.

    Soon it's Christmas as you know well so I will not be able to update more until January.

    My next steps will be to include all the form validators and start commenting the code ;-))

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  • Microsoft Ireland

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    Proud to say that Microsoft Ireland did a great job this afternoon with a very nice lunch for their education partners.

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  • / trailer my two cents

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    About my post this morning. I received some nice comments and advices, but the problem is that nobody get it.

    I give as an example a link to a site I develop but this happens to every bleeping site ;-)

    Try this one and compare with the original and this one and again compare with the original.
    So you see by yourself !

    I know that I am surrounded by windows developers but believe me in web development it's really a BAD idea to let something like this happening.
    The only site who managed to retrieve this as a 404 error is ASPalliance. No idea how they did .

    It really seems for me to be a bug. And finally to answer to somebody, it appears that the whole <head> section is screwed.
    Classic example is when the page has a javascript declared in the head section.

    It seems trivial but think about my aunt Marge who never learn to type correctly a URL address ;-)

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  • Strange behavior with IE or .Net ?

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    I found a strange thing happening this morning on the relationship between external stylesheets and aspx pages.
    I am not sure how this thing occured but if I use a link using a slash at the end, no style sheet is apply at all:

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  • Microsoft party tomorrow

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    By the way surely no new post on my blog tomorrow. I am invited to a Microsoft party in Dublin tomorrow.

    I think it's going to be good and hope some fun too ;-)

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  • [dScribe] Update 1.02

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    Following the launch of the Beta yesterday, I just fixed today some important bugs.

    I also did a full test from scratch: writing the content to the pages deployment (the example is in the database) on a current project I have SAFT (Safety Internet for Schools) and everything works fine.

    That's not mean the job is finish, not at all ;-)

    I would like to know if you find some other bugs in this new version Beta 1.02, so that I can continue to improve dScribe for the next version.

    Now I have great hopes to have a full version 1.0 ready for January, not bad for a project started mid-October).

    I am not a technical writer, so I try to improve my writing skills on the last articles by reading the recent articles posted by some gurus like Dino for example.
    Oh ! I forgot to mention that the next version will include a full Setup procedures and a clean demo installation.

    Some people asked me if I have a demo somewhere. Not yet but yes it's a good idea, and maybe sometime after the launch of the version 1.

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  • Unix and Windows culture

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    Joel has an interesting post on the differences between Unix and Windows programmers.
    He base his post on     Eric S. Raymond book called The Art of UNIX Programming .

    I agree with Joel on the monoculture aspect of some Unix programmer. It's true you can say the same about Windows too.
    But I am not sure that calling a valid business client Aunt Marge will help breaking the barriers ;-)

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