March 2008
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Transmission went out in the Corolla, had to buy a new car, today I sprained my ankle playing basketball at lunch, hasn’t been my week.
3 Request for ASP.NET 4 and VS 10 - All three would be so nice.
Rackspace goes Mosso - So Mosso is a hosting that allows you to run PHP/CGI/Ruby/.NET all from the same hosting. Their management interface is really nice and their tech support is decent/good. Only gripe is their servers are slow, maybe Rackspace can improve here.
Useful Google Desktop Widgets
Dark Cloud VS Scheme from Roy O
New Features coming to LINQ to SQL
Written by Tim on March 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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StickyNotes VS 2008 Addin - A nice addon that lets you keep a Sticky Note per cs or vb file.
Ohio Day of .NET sessions released
YouTube SDK/API coming soon
Google I/O Conference Announced
Super Tables - Javascript that takes a normal html table and makes it feel like a grid.
Written by Tim on March 12th, 2008 with no comments.
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I have a dell latitude d820 and the dreaded blurry image syndrome is back with IE 8 beta. The previous fix was to add a registry key UseHR or get this fix from dell but right now neither seem to be working. More on this soon…
Written by Tim on March 6th, 2008 with 7 comments.
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I watched the MIX08 keynote yesterday live. Something’s I took away from it: Sorry Ray Ozzie is seriously boring, his keynote wasn’t inspiring, informative, or appealing. I’m glad Microsoft is catching up with the cloud, they are at least 2 years behind Google (last year they were 4 years so they are making progress). They are really pushing Silverlight hard, even selling out to Nokia to get it on their phone. IE 8 looks promising, web slices look good, CSS 2.1, and HTML 5 goodness. Scott Gu is still the man, watch out Ray 
MIX08 Download Links
ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Screen Cast Tutorials
Microsoft Yahoo! launching OnePlace for Mobile Bookmarking
Acid3 Test Released
Google Calendar Synch - Finally a supported way to synch to Outlook
Written by Tim on March 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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Until IronRuby comes out 100% I’m going to be diving into RoR. It’s obvious RoR was constructed by *nix people so I’m hoping I’m not making it even harder on myself by trying to do this on Windows but here goes anyways.
Resources I’ve Found:
Windows
RailsOnWindows - Start here…
O’Reilly ONLamp.com - Step by Step from installing Ruby to MySQL and so on.
Instant Rails - one stop Rails runtime solution, includes Ruby, Rails, Apache, MySQL all preconfigured to run
RubyStack - Another click installer that brings over Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Apache
Installing Rails on Windows, Step by Step Tutorial
IDE
RadRails - Windows IDE for Rails, Dave likes.
Mondrian Ruby IDE
Arachno Ruby IDE
Ruby In Steel - Plugin for Visual Studio
Tutorials
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Tutorial
Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials
SitePoint Tutorial - Sitepoint always does a nice job
Written by Tim on March 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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Office Live Workspaces beta - Almost a Google Docs competitor but still appears you need to have word/excel/ppt locally and this saves it up in the cloud. Does come with versioning and sharing. You can download a msi that puts a "Save to Cloud" right in Word/Excel/PPT which is much better then doing a file upload. I can see using this as a backup solution.
Six Month in the Inside - Am I evil yet? - A peek from Scott H about working at Microsoft.
Essential Software to Install on a new computer - From Roy O, a little dated but still relevant.
LinqPad Webinar posted by O’Reilly
ScrewTurn Wiki 2.0.27 Released
Links to Linq - This is a really nice list of everything LINQ
Written by Tim on March 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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So it’s official, I’m now part of the advertising network, The Lounge. James Avery has put together some great blogs in the .NET Small Publishers Room that I’m now apart of so I’ll be ramping up the quality and quantity of post here to stay up with these guys. It’s a great opportunity for advertisers to get in front of developers/IT in a cost effective and most importantly (too me anyway’s) a measurable medium. More details here, don’t wait to sign up I hear the room is filling up quickly.
Written by Tim on March 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Tag Cloud Filters wth ASP.NET 3.5. - I’ve said it before, but Matt Berseth is the man.
One Million Objects in c# - How long do you thing it takes? Answer before clicking.
Ajax Control Toolkit Update Released - A nice list of bug fixes. Good to see MS not abandoning this framework.
5 things to do if you are NOT going to Mix - Gambling at the local river boat is not one of them.
Visual Studio Gallery - One the main reasons I stay a MS Developer is because of the goodness that is VS, here a bunch of nice Add Ins to make it even better.
Written by Tim on March 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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