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Coach Dad is now 8-0
Coach Dad is now 8-0 following two hard fought wins.
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20 years ago - Challenger
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Updated podcast file for Show #35
I messed up the editing of Show #35 and left in some of the "Hello Michael, are you still there" snips. I have gone back and edited them out. Sorry for the quality control problem.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #35 - Michael Mahemoff of AjaxPatterns.org and SoftwareAs.com
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Updated LINQ / VB Preview
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pageLoad() event in Atlas
The pageLoad() event appears to be a new special event in Atlas. All you have to do is put it into a page with the Atlas runtime embedded. For example, the following code works and displays the alert message as expected.
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Coach Wally is now 6-0
Coach Wally is now 6-0. I really have very little to do with the kids winning of losing. I have just been fortunate enough to get a group of really good basketball players on both teams.
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Sports Sunday
The best sports games on Sunday definitely were not the NFL playoff games. The Steelers mauled the Broncos 34-17 and Seahawks put it to the Panthers 34-14. No, the best sporting events on Sunday were the Seattle Supersonics over the Phoenix Suns 152-149 in double overtime with Ray Allen scoring 42 and Kobe Bryant scoring 81 points in the Lakers 122-104 defeat of the Toronto Raptors.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #34 - Database Tuning
ASP.NET Podcast Show #34 - Database Tuning
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"Sir Wally" at the Orlando Code Camp in March
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Web.Net.WebRequest() class in Atlas
I was talking to Wilco a while back and he said that the Completed event on the Web.Net.WebRequest() object takes two paramaters, just like in .NET. I wrote the code below to test it out and it seems to work properly. Now I can see which object instance actually instantiated the event.
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How to not display a blog entry on the main page
Given the recent discussions about what should and shouldn't be in a blog on weblogs.asp.net, I thought I would add this little tidbit of information. If you want to post something to your blog and don't want to appear on the main page, you need to scroll down to the "Advanced Options" and uncheck the "Include in Aggregated Site" checkbox. This puts the entry into your blog, but doesn't put it out on the main page.
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Workout regime the last 10 days or so
I was in Atlanta helping my business partner January 2nd - 5th. He made a crack that he thought I was gaining weight. Geez, I only work out 6+ days per week for 30-45 minutes on the cross-training machines. However, he is probably right. Since I got back, I have been really working out hard. It seems that every day that I have been back, I have been working out 45 minutes per day on the machines and I have set the intensity higher. I have been soaked in sweat when I've been done. I notice that my appetite has been decreased also.
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Where is winter?
I don't know what its like where you are at, but the winter here is pretty nice. Here's the current forecast for Knoxville. http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?seg=LocalWeather&loc=katl&product=Forecast&prodgrp=Forecasts&prodnav=none & http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php?MapType=3&site=mrx&CiTemplate=1&map.x=164&map.y=149
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Coach Wally is now 4-0
Coach Dad went 2-0 this weekend to raise our combinded record to 4-0 for this year. Our 2nd-3rd grade team won in an interesting way. Bradley got sick on Friday night. He was up in the middle of the night. He woke me up about 3 am. I never got back to sleep so I was operating on 3 hours of sleep on Saturday. Ronda told me that Bradley didn't want to play but that he wanted to go to the game. When he got to the game, he said he could play a little bit. He played two quarters and played really well. Out of that game, we got several of the other kids to play hard to make up for our sick player. Coach Wayne's granddaughter played well. She scored 5 points. We had some other kids play well. I was very happy with the performance. This team won 32-18. One bit of bad news is that Coach Wayne has torn the ACL in his left knee and will have surgery in about two weeks. Coach Wayne will be out for two weeks. I hope everything goes well and he comes back quickly.
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HashCode
Several years ago, I had written my own little hashcode for my web search spider. I checked the performance on my 64 bit system, and to put it mildly, it was horrible. I was talking to Dave Wanta this week and he reminded me of the Hashing support in .NET. I had completely forgotten about it. I yanked out my hash code and used the hasing in .NET. I got better performance using the hashcode in .NET when inserting into the database. I believe that my code did not provide a good spread to effectively use the database indexes that I had setup. By going to the .NET hash support, I think I was able to get a better spread for my indexing system and was able to get rid of a database hotspot. Right now, I am trying to see how many records it will support.
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64 bits in .NET 2.0
I put my Web Spider code onto my x64 system. Everything is managed code. I was able to just start running the code. The lesson seems to be that if you right 100% managed code, your code will run, your code has a pretty good change of running in 32 bits or 64 bits. I always hate to say something will run a 100% of the time, but my guess is that it has a good chance of running. Perhaps someone from MS can post a comment about the pitfalls of 32 vs. 64 bits in .NET 2.0.
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Specific Sites
I made some changes to my spider to only search specific sites as oppossed to just going out there and searching the Web Graph. It was fairly simple. All I had to do was change a couple of stored procs.
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Skype 2.0
It looks like Skype 2.0 is out. It has Video Calling in it. I downloaded and installed it last night. http://www.skype.com.
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David Gottlieb is working on a side project
http://www.thegottliebclan.com/Downloads/tabid/63/Default.aspx
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"Have we not heard the chimes at midnight?"
I listened to CNBC the other day. It seems that many analysts are just falling all over themselves with this Web 2.0 hysteria. Have we not been down this path before? "Have we not heard the chimes at midnight" and haven't they learned their lessons from the dot-COM bubble burst? It seems to me this "irrational exuberance" will only lead to a similar result.
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Community Credit site
Are you a blogger or development community activist? My friend David Silverlight in Miami has just launched the site www.Community-Credit.com. Basically, it is a site that rewards people that are community focused.
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Terri Morton is working on a side project
Fellow MVP and ASPInsider Terri Morton is working on an interesting side project.
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Atlas - UpdatePanel - ControlEventTrigger
I was just working with the UpdatePanel in Atlas. I was thinking that it would be nice if there was some type of IDE support the UpdatePanel and the EventTriggers. Well, there is. Check out this little jewel. When you click on <control>, you get a list of the current controls on the page. Very nice. When you click on the event, you get a list of events. Very nice indeed.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #33 - MSMQ
Original URL: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/01/10/71.aspx
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Coach Wally
We started off this weekend with two victories. In the first game, Bradley's team (the Panthers) won 30-16. In the second game, Kirsten's team (the Waves) won 31-18. It was nice to start both teams off with a win.
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Microsoft does listen - AssociatedControlId drop down list box
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MVP Award
Sweet, I just got my MVP Award notification............ Thanks Ben!
Wally
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IronPython 1.0 Beta 1 from Microsoft for .NET
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The last thing I would do is put an unofficial patch on my system.................
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Podcast Reviews
Paul Lockwood, over at the www.DotNetWorkaholic.com site, has come through with a review of technical podcasts. I think Paul is pretty accurate and fair with regards to the ASP.NET Podcast. Initially, the audio quality was fairly poor. I admit it. I think that we have improved in that area. We don't sound like DNR or Polymorphic Podcast (and I like both shows). I don't have a background in audio production, and it shows. I like our focus on code and that was the main goal from the beginning. Programmers like code. They want code. Paul and I give it to them fairly well.
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Back to playing with my Web Search Spider
Appropiate that this is my first post in 2006. I spent several hours this evening working getting my web search spider back up and going. I have it running on .NET 2.0 with Sql Server 2005. I need to go back and make a stored procedure change or two and it will be ready for me to scale it back up. I have it running on my 32 bit laptop right now. I am going to get it going in Win64 for x64. Things to do: