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232 days ago
I decided I wasn’t quite busy enough ;-) With VS 2010 set to launch in beta in May, and given that this blog barely covered VS 2005, let alone VS 2008, I figured it would be good for me to return and see what I can come up with. Perhaps I can find a way to integrate ASP.NET with social networking and ethics :-D As an interesting aside, my childhood kitty cat, Smokey, was born on April 11, 1975. (Why I can remember that, but not remember whether I’ve answered an email from the last few days I’ll never know…)
434 days ago
I'm getting too many spamming comments, so, sadly, the only way to prevent that is to completely turn off comments. Sorry about that!
434 days ago
My days are spent with my eternal companion, Blackboard. I'll occasionally point students to this blog, sadly outdated. In my vast amounts of spare time I could start making posts again...
1203 days ago
Microsoft has just released a nifty little blogging tool as beta: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/ I'm using it here for the first time, so I can't report much, but the download, installation and configuration experience was pleasant, as was composing this post. I'm using it here with my Spaces account, but I could have used it with any of my numerous Blogger.com accounts, as well. In fact, I can wire it up to *all* of my blogs. Very cool!
1354 days ago
I love the designation "Mystery Meat Navigation" from the folks at Web Pages That Suck. Part of my loathing of Flash sites is from MMN. (Mainly it's because Flash takes away my beloved right-click.) One of the worst offenders I've seen is Chipotle. Try making your relatives in their 70s navigate through that site. I was writing up a post about MMN and Web Pages That Suck in an online ASP.NET class I'm teaching and thought I'd see if Chipotle uses ASP.NET. I tested this by typing http://www.chipotle.com/default.aspx into the browser. Yep, they use it. Well, the server they are on has it installed (the 1.1.4322.2300 version). Even if they aren't using ASP.NET functionality, they really should do something about the default ugly ASP.NET 404 screen (yes, I know most web developers don't anticipate folks randomly typing wrong addresses into the browser, but default 404 - any error, really - pages are a pet peeve of mine): Server Error in '/' ...
