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"Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET" is listed on Amazon
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Baseball coach?
Last night, the kids had the baseball/softball evaluations for this springs league. Its funny how everyone seems to know me and now seems to expect me to be the coach in everything. Honestly, I appreciate it, but I don't know the first thing about baseball/softball. And besides, who wants to see me yell from the dugout, "Find your man. Who are you guarding. Take it to the basket." It just doesn't seem to work there.
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Vista 5308 in a VPC
I have no idea if this will work, but I am trying to install Windows Vista Build 5308 into a VPC image. The first hurdle that I ran into is that the drive partition is not automatically recognized by Vista. I rebooted my VPC session and on the second attempt, Vista recognized the partition. More info to come.
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Look who is trying to get money for Web 2.0 and for what...........
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Coach Wally moves to 11-1
The teams moved to a combined 11-1. Bradley's team won 40-31 to move to 6-0. Bradley keeps trying to dribble thru people but we won. Kirsten's team won 45-28. She played really good defense.
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Gym Again
What is the deal with me? I spent 1 full hour on the cross training machine today. I've only had two off days all year. This week, I have done 1 hour on Monday, 45 minutes on Tuesday, 50 minutes on Wednesday, and another hour on Thursday. My regular schedule is to do 30 minutes per day on the weekdays and 45 minutes on Saturday and Sunday. I guess that I am pumped from getting my chapter in on Monday.
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BellSouth is now spamming
Sorry to whine, but I just had to.
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Hit the Gym bigtime today
I hti the gym bigtime today. I shipped off the first draft of my final chapter for my book and decided to go to the gym. I was so excited over having shipped the chapter off, that I spent a full 60 minutes on the crosstraining machine. My tshirt was soaked with sweat when I was done. According to the machine, I expended something like 1150 calories during that time. Wow, are my legs sore right now. Hopefully, I'll feel a little bit better tomorrow.
On a slightly different note, I've only had one off day from exercise in the last 6 weeks. That off day was January 31. I need to schedule an off day soon, but I feel so excited after getting my chapter in that I don't know when I will take an off day. -
What are the folks at Google smokin'?
I guess that Cheech and Chong have moved into the Googleplex
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"AJAX with ASP.NET" book status update
This afternoon, I shipped off the final first draft chapter for our "AJAX with ASP.NET" book. This was a chapter on Atlas. While I don't consider my chapters to be final content worthy at this point, I have taken them as far as I can given the limited documentation, geat assistance from Wilco Bauwer, and help from everyone in the forums @ http://forums.asp.net. I realize that my chapters on Atlas will indeed change between now and final shipment of the book, however, this is a great momentary weight off my shoulders.
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INETA Speaker's Bureau
I have been selected to join the INETA speaker's bureau. The request was a surprise. It is an honor to have been asked. Also joining are:
- Robert Green.
- Rich Hundhausen.
- Scott Cate.
- Sahil Malik.
- Me (Wallace B. McClure).
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Web.Services.AuthenticationServices in Atlas
So, I was talking the other day about the AuthenticationServices class in Atlas. To get this working, you have to do a couple of things security wise. At this point, it is definitely not something that you just drop in and start working on.
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Dwight Schrute(of the Office) Bobblehead doll - I Have Got To Get Me Some of This
My buddy David Silverlight, at www.community-credit.com, has started a petition to get the Dwight Schrute Bobblehead Doll. The url is http://www.community-credit.com/BobbleHead.aspx.
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Mix06 - I'll be there
Thanks to some clever re-arranging and some help from some friends, I'll be at Mix06. If you are there, look me up. I'll be hanging around anything to do with Atlas.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #37 - January CTP of Atlas
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Web.Profile
It looks like there is a namespace called Web.Profile. This namespace appears to be for managing profiles through Atlas, though don't quote me on the specifics. It appears to be similar to the Web.Services.Authentication class that I found earlier.
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Web.Services.AuthenticationService
It looks like I finally found how to do Authentication in Atlas. There appears to be a static class called Web.Servcies.AuthenticationService. It has two methods. These are
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Listen to the show to find out how to get one!
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Special Button in Atlas - "abortButton"
I was just reading thru Nikhil's posts about the new build of Atlas and I cam across this interesting little nugget of information. You can stop an async operation through the <ProgressTemplate> by creating a special button with the id of "abortButton." I like the idea, however, I just hate magic numbers, or buttons in this case. Perhaps the team could put in some type of special attribute on a regular button or something like that....................
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New Build of Atlas (yeah, I'm a day late on this)
Many Thanks to the ASP.NET team for putting out another update of Atlas. The ever-awesome Nikhil Kothari has some information on the goodness contained within.
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My thoughts on the MVP Program "Deterioration" Post
A post was made last week regarding the perceived deterioration of the MVP program at http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2006/02/01/the-deterioration-of-the-mvp-program/. Now that I am back home and have gotten a chapter out, I wanted to throw my two cents worth in on the subject, and reserve the right to make it four cents at a later time.
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ASP.NET Podcast #36 - Personal Web Site Starter Kit
Ok, so Paul has actually gotten busy and managed to do a podcast. The main content on this one is about some good and bad points on the personal web site starter kit that is available for .Net 2.0. Paul has recently used it to create my new site at http://www.theglavs.com and thought he would share some impressions of it, its internals, and how it held up for him.
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Super Bowl Oddity
It seems that there is an interesting TV oddity that I have noticed over the last couple of years during the Super Bowl. I get bored relatively quickly, so I tend to change channels a lot. It seems that the movie "Independence Day" has been on the last several years during the Super Bowl. Kinda weird...................
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Coach Wally is now 9-1
Today we had a split. My son's team won, but my daughter's team lost.
