Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

This just in. Scoble gets interviewed by .NET Rocks and gets torn a new a-hole by Roy Osherove. Film at 11.

One of the biggest problems I've always had with maintaining several related websites is that I can never keep my images synched up. One other related problem would be that, if I ever threw an image up onto the web server, and referenced it on another site, it would throw off my web server statistics. A perfect example is the signature graphic I use on the ASP.NET Forums. That would throw of my stats by thousands of visitors every week.

OK, my new ventures have been up for a full day now, and here are some statistics.

OK, so I was getting this funky error on www.interscapeusa.com, and it kinda pissed me off. I couldn't track down why the site would randomly insert JavaScript into my web pages, throwing a really odd error in IE. Well, it turns out that Paul added a really nifty feature to XHEO|WebSkin that fixes the Framework 1.1 PostBack issue (you know, the one Microsoft still won't release a public fix for). Well, I was caching my pages without varying the parameter, and so at one point, a Netscape browser requested the page, and that output was cached. So when IE browsers hit it, it gives you the JavaScript bird and throws an error.

Well, my Patch Day Review has gotten pretty popular. So popular in fact, that I decided to make it a service of my company, and give it a new home. www.patchdayreview.com runs on the same .Text blogging engine, which allows me to have a lot more control over the format of the site, and automatically creates an RSS feed for me, which was the main reason for using this engine. You'll notice a slightly different format that what I was using before. This is because I wanted to be able to have patch categories, so you can see what alerts affect which products. So from now on, you'll see the patches individually, and you'll also see a summary post for the week. This is the one place where I hope I don't have to post a lot.

OK, this has been several weeks in the making, but thanks to Robert Scoble, and the amazing graphics work of Paul Alexander, THE next exciting community is officially online!

My business partner wants to get up to speed on .NET, but he comes from a sales and marketing background, not a technical one. Do you guys have any recommendations for good books on .NET for someone coming from a completely non-technical history? Maybe like “.NET for Dummies” or something to that effect? Please let me know. if not I'll have to write one.