Archives
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My 11th Wedding Anniversary
Today (April 29th) is my 11th wedding anniversary. Its hard to believe that Ronda could put up with me for that long. Not only that, but Ronda was with me off and on for 6 years before that.
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ASP.NET Podcast #49 - Paul talks about the Secure Text Box
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OT - Chernobyl 20 years ago
It was 20 years ago (April 25-26, 1986) that the world's largest man made accident occurred. Even today, we don't know the full extent of the damage.
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Atlanta Code Camp Registration is now open
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Author Review of Chapter 11 of "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET"
I am currently working through my chapters in our Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET book. I have just completed Author Review on Chapter 11. I am through with Author Review, but there are a few last questions. I think the heavy lifting is over now, just some tiddying up.
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Pictures from the Alabama Code Camp on April 22, 2006
Here are some of the pictures that I took at the Alabama/Huntsville CodeCamp on April 22, 2006. A great time was had by all.
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"I Did NOT Sign the VB6 Petition" and other good tshirts at the Alabama Code Camp
Here, Wally is modeling the latest tshirt brought to you by DevFish.NET.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #48 - Jim Minatel
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Appendix for "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET"
I got my Appendix on XML turned in. I've got one chapter to go. Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET.
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Author Review of Chapter 10 of "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET"
I am currently working through my chapters in our Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET book. I have just completed Author Review on Chapter 10. (Atlas and ASP.NET Services) Only one more chapter, and just a few more pages of text to write..................
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ArcCast with Ron Jacobs (Channel9 Architectual Podcast)
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=181352
While I was out in Las Vegas, I sat down with Ron Jacobs of Channel9's ArcCast (Architecture Podcast). We had entirely way too much fun during this. Ron sent me the whole audio file which I plan on putting up as a special "Behind the Scenes" download for the ASP.NET Podcast once I get a little bit more done with our "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET Book." Thanks again to Ron.
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Author Review of Chapter 12 of "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET"
I am currently working through my chapters in our Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET book. I have just completed Author Review on Chapter 12. (Atlas and ASP.NET Services) Only two more chapters, and about 12-15 more pages of text to write..................
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Speaker Registration is open for the Atlanta Code Camp on May 13
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Registration is open for the Alabama Code Camp in Huntsville on April 22
Registration is now open for the Code Camp in Huntsville. It is at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032294527&Culture=en-US
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #46 & #47 - Shaun Walker, Rob Howard, and ScottW
Yes, this is a double post about two new shows being available for the price of one. What a deal. How could anyone want more? And it comes with a money back guarantee. If you don't like the shows, we will give you a 100% refund on what you have paid us for this show. How can you go wrong with that?
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Sys.Profile.set_autoSave method in Atlas
If you are using the ASP.NET 2.0 profiles in Atlas, you want to pay attention to the Sys.Profile.set_autoSave(boolean). If you pass a true in, changing any value in a Profile results in the updating of the profile on the server. Setting it to false gives you much more control. Also, if you are seeing the updates being performed on your server multiple times, you might want to look into this. I had some example code that had the udpates being made multiple times. When I set the value to false on a page load, the problem of mutliple calls went away.
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What's wrong with Weblogs.Asp.Net?
Is anyone else seeing problems? I've been getting all kinds of errors starting last night. Seems kinda strange. There is no rhyme or reason associated with the errors. The most common error seems to be a Null Reference error. I'm wondering if the problem is load, DOS, code update, general tweaking, or just what is going on. BTW, I'm not complaining, just wondering what's happening.
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Work out regime continues
After working out every day during the whole month of February, I finally took a day off on Friday March 3. After that, it was solid for two more weeks. While I was in Las Vegas, I was really slack. I only worked out for 2 out of the 5 days we were there. We got back on March 22nd. Since then, I have been a good camper. I took a day off on Monday March 27th and then again on Friday April 7th. Otherwise, I have spent a solid 30-45 minutes on the eliptical trainer machine each day.
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XML Schemas, not for the faint of heart
I've been trying to get a fairly simple XML Schema example to work with validation. I've been at this off and on for about 8 hours over 3 days. While I am not an expert in all phases of XML, trying to write a Schema by hand doesn't seem to be very simple. I asked a couple of friends (Rob Chartier and David Silverlight) to help, but they couldn't get it to work either. Finally, I downloaded an XML editor on Saturday. Within about 10 minutes of installing it, I had everything working that I need to have. Why does it have to be so hard?
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Author Review of Chapter 5 of "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET"
I am currently working through my chapters in our Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET book. I have just completed Author Review on Chapter 5. (Data Communications with XML and JSON) Only three more chapters, and about 12-15 more pages of text to write..................
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Master's Sunday
Its Master's Sunday. As the final round will be going off later this afternoon, its interesting to look back at two of the most interesting final rounds I saw.
1986. Jack Nicklaus, at the age of 46, shot a 65 to beat Greg Norman by 1 stroke.
1996. Nick Faldo had the greast final round comeback in Master's history as he rallied from a 7 shot deficit to overcome Greg Norman.
Its too bad that Norman was the loser in both of these tournaments. Greg is a great player that seems to have been snake-bitten through out his career. I watched as Greg was beaten out by miraculous shots. In 1986, he was beaten by Bob Tway in the PGA championship when Bob holed out a bunker shot. 1990, Robert Gamez holed out a 175 yard shot to beat him in another tournament. Greg Norman is a great player who won two major championships in his career. That ought to be enough for a great player.
The 2006 final round will be interesting. Phil Mickelson (-4) and Fred Couples are playing in the final group. I'm looking forward to this.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #45 - Thomas Lewis and Keith Smith
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Tennessee Storms, Tornados, Thunder, and Lightening on Friday April 7, 2006
Here's the archived weather radar from TN on April 7, 2006. It was pretty bad here. The worst part of the weather seemed to be east of Nashville and west of Knoxville.
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Greg Young MVP
Congrats to Greg Young for being awarded MVP in the area of Visual C#.
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Podcasting - More Blip than Boom
http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6058398.html
Podcasts are to bloggers what MySpace sites are to teens: All the cool kids have one. So Forrester probably expected a big reaction with a new report that claims podcasts are not exactly taking the wired world by storm.
As a podcast host, I tend to believe that there will be a slow uptake in listeners as opossed to there being a blip. The reaction I get from people is "Podcast? WTF is that." Now, the tech savy crowd gets what podcasts are, but the vast majority of people don't. -
Author Review of Chapter 1 of "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET"
I am currently working through my chapters in our Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET book. I have just completed Author Review on Chapter 1. Only four more chapters, and about 12-15 more pages of text to write..................
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #44 - Rob Scoble
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Targetting different versions of the Framework
I have a situation where I need to target specific versions of the .NET Framework with the same code base. Look at what I found in #Develop 2.0 Beta product. It looks like I can target different versions of the framework through a property of the project.
