From the most excellent blog of the most excellent Scott Guthrie comes news that Microsoft will incorporate and ship the outstanding JQuery Javascript/AJAX library in a future version of ASP.NET Ajax.
This is a tremendous win for JQuery, which already has the momentum of a runaway freight train in a space that has been profoundly fragmented [...]
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ASP.NET Ajax Will Incorporate JQuery
September 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · .NET, Web/Tech
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.NET Developers: Recommend Your Favorite Open-Source Projects Here
April 10th, 2008 · 40 Comments · .NET, Open Source
After literally years of trying, I’ve finally succeeded in getting the VSLive folks to let me do a pure open-source talk at the conference. The talk is called Codeplex’s Greatest Hits. The idea is to take a bunch of different cool open-source projects and provide descriptions of them as well as working code demos. The [...]
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Slides and Code for Data-Driven ASP.NET Ajax Talk
April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · .NET
Even though I was frazzled and exhausted after battling airlines and airports trying to get home yesterday and today, I arrived for VSLive exactly eighteen minutes before my first scheduled talk, which was on using .NET to build Facebook applications. The talk went pretty well and was decently attended but it was challenging to cover [...]
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Death to Developer Contests
March 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · .NET, Microsoft, Platforms
Over on his blog Microsoft’s Dan Fernandez courageously decries the frequent use of developer contests to engage developers and increase momentum for platform adoption. He counted up the number of contests Microsoft is running at the moment: it’s 18. Eighteen different ways to win cash and prizes for doing stuff with various Microsoft products.
Dan thinks [...]
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Creating Facebook Apps Using ASP.NET at VSLive San Francisco
March 13th, 2008 · No Comments · .NET, Microsoft
The VSLive conference is an excellent place to become familiar with the latest and greatest technologies for Microsoft platform development. I started speaking at VSLive in 1996 which makes it one of the oldest things I do on a regular basis besides eating/breathing/excreting. VSLive takes place in San Francisco March 30 through April 3.
I am [...]
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Database Queries with Windows Powershell
October 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · .NET, Microsoft, MySQL, Web/Tech
I haven’t done a serious learning project for a while so this week I decided to play around with Windows Server 2008 and PowerShell. I’ll post some thoughts about Server 2008 soon (at first glance it looks terrific once you get past the fact that IIS is now a "role" instead of something you install). [...]
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Data-Driven ASP.NET Ajax
September 20th, 2007 · No Comments · .NET, Microsoft, Web/Tech
This week I presented two talks at VSLive in New York. I love speaking at this conference because of its technical focus and because I’ve done it so long — eleven years — there are always a bunch of people I run into at this conference that I only see when I’m there.
I’ve posted here [...]
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Apache At 56%
May 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments · .NET, Open Source
Very interesting thread on Digg this morning called "Apache at 56% – what is wrong?" Apparently a number of factors are converging to erode the dominance of the Apache web server (which, as of two years ago, used to run 70% of web sites by some measures). Lots of interesting pro-IIS and .NET comments in [...]
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Cgen: Simplest .NET/MySQL Relational Wrapper That Could Possibly Work
May 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment · .NET, MySQL, Open Source, Platforms, Web/Tech
Last week I attended and spoke at the MySQL conference. Some of the talks, particularly the ones that targeted system administrators rather than developers were over my head, but that’s useful information in itself — it serves as a reminder that sometime soon I’ll need to either learn the finer points of big-time MySQL system [...]
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New Version of MySQL .NET Connector
March 7th, 2007 · No Comments · .NET, MySQL
A while back I posted that the 5.x line of MySQL connectors was a bit too garden-fresh for production use. Fortunately Reggie and team have quickly released a new version: here are the details.
From the release notes it looks like they might have resolved the problem that I was having. I’m still using the [...]
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