Archives
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Podcasting goes "Mainstream"
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #8 - The ASP.NET DownUnder Edition with Darren Nemke and Paul Glavich
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Golf on Saturday July 30, 2005
Wow, today was a wild day on the golf course for me. I shot a 71 on a par 72 course. The course is 6,300 yard from the tees that we played from. The rating and slope are 68.7/110. That results in a handicap differential of 2.4 for that round, if I have my figures all straight and my terms correct. It was so rewarding, especially considering that I had shot an 88 on the same course from the same tees last Saturday. I was so upset when I got done last weekend. Today was definitely a different day.
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Audio File Sizes in Audacity
I just started checking in my data folder at the ASP.NET Podcast Show #8 that I am putting together. When I save the files in then native format of Audacity, the file size is 533 megabytes. When I save it to an mp3 file, the file size is 15.4 megabytes. Wow, what a difference. Compression is good.
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Wondering about Longhorn Server?
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1840976,00.asp
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MS Server and Tools Growth
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Help teach people what Podcasting is
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Digital Pontification Needs more Wally - Listen to me sing the Georgia Tech Fight Song
http://weblogs.asp.net/jasonsalas/archive/2005/07/27/420655.aspx
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Windows Vista Beta 1 and VirtualPC - Updated
Anybody tried to install Windows Vista Beta 1 into a VirtualPC Session? I'm getting an error trying to format the VirtualPC drive. Suggestions?
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Windows Vista / Longhorn Beta 1 is on MSDN for subscribers
Its up on MSDN for subscribers. I am downloading now.
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I have learned a new lesson in getting airline tickets
Wow, I learned a new lesson this morning regarding airline tickets. I don't fly much, except for going to Seattle, WA to Microsoft events at Redmond. I have typically gotten tickets about 10-14 days before. Well, I now have some time and I just looked this morning for tickets on October 2. Wow, the prices are one-third the price of my last ticket. I had previous flown on United because of the schedule and the fare was the least I could find coming out of Knoxville. I had checked United again and it was about the same as I had paid before. Well, I decided to check others this time. Wow, American is way less. I am going to check others airlines, but Wow.................................
Wally
PS. It looks like I will make it to the AspInsider Summit October 3-5.
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Ajax Web Development Tools
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CEOs are faking it, Stanford professor says - CEOs deserve less credit for their company's fortunes than they receive
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/22/HNceosfakingit_1.html
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Ajax Podcast by "Software as She's Developed"
Check out the "Software As She's Developed" podcast on AJAX. Its by Michael Mahemoff. I downloaded and listened to it. Really good material.
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ASP.NET Podcast - Show #7 - Mobile Development
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My thoughts go out to those in Egypt and London
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/24/egypt.explosions/index.html
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My Journey to Ajax
Ok, so how did I get to Ajax. Well my journey really started before I saw Google Maps. In 2003, a guy named Anthony Mason showed me some code he wrote that used the client-side MSXML object from IE to make some calls to a web site without doing a full postback. The problem I saw at that time was the amount of javascript necessary to perform this operation and the time spent debugging. While debugging is still a fear of mine, I feel that the libraries, such as the Ajax Library for .NET, Sarissa, and others really take "most" of the debugging problems out of the loop. Like everyone else, I thought that the Google products were really cool. From there, things took off. However, I never forgot about Anthony's demo he showed me.
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Looks like I made the Wiley/Wrox Author Rotation
It looks like I have been placed in the blog rotation on the front page of the Wiley/Wrox book site. I started seeing referrers in the admin section of my blog from them. Sweet. http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/
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Ajax Blog: ajaxaspects.blogspot.com
I came across the Ajax Aspects blog today. Thought I would share it.
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Website: www.AjaxInfo.com
I came across AjaxInfo today. Looks like it is just getting started, but it is ramping up within information from the blogosphere.
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New explosions in the London Subway (Tube) System and on a Bus - Developing News
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/21/london.tube/index.html
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One really cool feature in the "Ajax Library for .NET"
Ok, Ajax is cool. Michael Schwartz's "Ajax Library for .NET" has a feature that is either new or I missed. My biggest complaint with regards to Ajax is that amount of javascript code that is necessary to write when interfacing to a method on the server and then iterating through return values and such.
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Technorati vs. Other Search Engines
I remember a number of years ago when I switched to using Goggle almost exclusively. I feel that away again as over the last couple of weeks, I have been using Technorati more and more. Very cool for looking at blog entries.
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"Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET" co-authors for my book
I just wanted to go ahead and announce that Scott Cate and Paul Glavich will be working working with me on our Ajax book. I am really excited to be working with these guys.
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Popularity of Ajax
By looking at the stats on my blog, it seems that Ajax is a popular post topic. I am seeing 2-3 times the number of web visits to ajax oriented topics than I would see to other posts. It appears that there are a lot of people looking for Ajax information. As of mid afternoon, my book announcement had 4 times the number of web views that I expected. My posts about ajax that i did on Saturday night have had almost 200 web views and 700-825 aggregator views, which for me is amazing. I guess it really is a good time to work on an Ajax book.
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Sarissa Javascript Library for client side Ajax processing
Have you tried out the Sarissa javascript library for client-side Ajax processing? If so, contact me through the blog and let me know your thoughts on the javascript library.
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Hot Dang - Ajax Book Proposal Accepted.
I put in a book proposal at my publisher on the topic of Ajax with ASP.NET. I just recieved confirmation from him that it was accepted today (with suggested changes). I am really excited about this.
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If there was ever any question about my attendance at PDC, Microsoft Book Publishing Summit, MVP Summit, or ASPInsider Summit.............
it was answered today. My wife's birthday is September 17. My daughter's birthday is October 1. I was trying to fit something in with all of those dates. I just found out today that my marching orders orders for the month of September are to either be working for a customer or be at a birthday party. No jetting across the country for me.....................
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IE6 Security Settings
I have an install of IE6, running on Win2k3. I am having a problem getting an application, which I did not write, to display the htc controls on the page. To get this to work properly, I had to add the site running the application to the Intranet/Trusted Sites list in IE6. Once I did that, all my problems went away.
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Javascript debugging, with an Ajax connection
A couple of links of interest regarding javascript debugging from my previous post about some issues with ajax. I got these from some emails from posts.
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With AJAX, we can really have a Rich Client
Wow, I have been reading and learnng as much as I can about AJAX over the past several weeks. There are a few things that I think are really enabling the Rich Client experience.
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What not to do with AJAX
One of the features of AJAX will be to "post" smaller data than a full HTML page. While XML is very verbose, it will be better than sending a full page and all of that overhead (Ex. ViewState in ASP.NET). I am fearful that with that, developers will take the opportunity to go back around to the server in a relatively small amount of time and use AJAX for everything. Now imagine that you are a public web site, you have a couple thousand users using a chat program built in ajax that sends data to the server every few seconds. Depending on network bandwidth and server CPUs, it may overload the web server. I don't see a "major" issue in going back and forth to the server on an intranet application, but I can see major issues when running a public web site and doing thousands (or more) AJAX calls over the public internet.
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AJAX Lesson #2 - Javascript debugging
Lesson #2 that I have learned with Javascript is that you need to be able to debug your javascript. Get some good javascript debugging tools? Microsoft had the script debugger at one time. I never liked the Interdev or VS.NET javascript debugging, but I didn't work with them much. I believe that Netscape had a pretty good javascript debugging tool at one time. I'm going to go check the mozilla site for a javascript debugger. Can you recommend a javascript debugger?
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OS/2 is no more
http://news.com.com/IBM+to+bury+OS2/2100-1016_3-5789924.html?tag=nefd.top
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ASP.NET Podcast - Interview with Rob Howard of Telligent Systems
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Matt Gibbs
Just wanted to say a quick thanks to Matt Gibbs of the ASP.NET team at Microsoft for meeting with me for a podcast interview. I hope to have that up on the podcast sometime. Life just keeps getting in the way.................
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Nihkil Kothari
Thanks to Nikhil Kothari for taking time today for an interview on our ASP.NET Podcast. Expect that up on the podcast..........................sometime.
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AJAX web site
Just stumbled across this site
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My first HttpModule - written in Whidbey
I just wrote my first HttpModule. Admittedly, it doesn't do much, but I know that it works. All it does is get the IP host address of the remote client and put that into the Event Log. Admittedly, the Module does not do a lot, but it gets me started. The web.config of an asp.net application needs to have the entry below put into the httpModules section. The code for the module is below that.
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Redmond this week for IIS7 Devlab
I'm really pumped. I am headed to the IIS7 devlab in Redmond this week. I am hoping to get the appropiate material to finish preparation on an IIS7 book.
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London Letter to the Terrorists - WOW! - Completely non-technical
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Skype stuff
Skype Journal: http://www.skypejournal.com
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Polymorphic Podcast - Sharepoint - Craig Shoemaker
I highly recommend listening to the Polymorphic Podcast by Craig Shoemaker. Craig's most recent podcast is on the subject of SharePoint. The show before this was an interview with Paul Wilson, a .NET guru.
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Oracle ships Oracle 10g Release 2 for Linux x86
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Two women from Knoxville (where I live) injured in the London Bombing
Two Knoxville girls were aboard a train in London when it was bombed early this morning. Katie and Emily Benton were aboard a London Subway.One girl is presently in surgery the other girl's condition is not known. Knoxville Fellowship Church is asking for prayers for these two young victims and all involved. This comes after it was reported no Americans were injured.
This just came in via agee at SKB
Emily's feet were both badly injured and she is currently in surgery. Her sister, Katie, who was with her on the train, is presently unaccounted for. They volunteer in London for the Middle School Ministry through Fellowship Church. -
Podcasting to grow by 2010
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Thoughts and Prayers go out to those in London
My thoughts and prayers go out to those in London.
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Where is my Edit-n-Continue
Wow, another feature that I can not wait for in VS.NET 2005 Whidbey is Edit-n-Continue. I find that I make such dumb typing mistakes that I really need EnC.
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Ajax based VB <--> C# convertor
Via Darrell Norton's blog.
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Windows Longhorn Beta 1 - Late July, 2005
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/46901/46901.html?Ad=1
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I am so looking forward to refactoring in VS.NET 2005
Wow, I am so looking forward to refactoring in VS.NET 2005. I'm am currently refactoring some code that I have with VB 2003 (Yeah, I know about refactoring in VB 2005). Its not very painful, but it is timeconsuming. Geez, can it just get here quick enough? At least I have the VB XML Comment generator.
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Ajax Lesson #1
I've been working with Michael Schwartz's Ajax Library for .NET over the past couple of days. FYI, I got it setup and running with .NET 2.0.50215.312 build of .NET. Michael has a very clear and helpful 10 page word document that describes how to get things setup and going. The library makes it very simple and straight forward to make the calls and get results back.
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Found some of my really old code - brings back some of the memories
Occassionally, I like to go ego surfing. I ran across the some code that I working on in 1989. The code was written in a language called Mathmatica. The package is a set of signal processing algorithms at http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/4578/
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #5 - Week of July 4 Special Show
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iTunes makes us too popular?
I just checked out my server logs for the last couple of days. I see that there have been thousands of requests of the first four podcasts on Thursday 6/30 and Friday 7/1. Wow, this would appear to be good news. However, most of the requests are getting HTTP status 206. I looked this up and it would be an incomplete request. I figure that iTunes is trying to download and just retries on an error. I think this is the one of the same problems that Carl Franklin is reporting. Our problem is an overall lack of bandwidth into our office.
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Going Broke on Free Software
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Blogging advice on MSN / CareerBuilder