October 2008 Entries
Watching the live stream of the PDC keynote yesterday, there were bits of Windows 7 that appealed to me. Libraries and Home Groups seems good, as does the Device Center (I notice they didn’t have a Zune connected in the demo). I like the easy switch to projects, useful for those of us who present, and the improved multi-monitor support, although they didn’t demo a smarter taskbar for the additional monitors (why don’t they just buy UltraMon?). UAC improvements, good; touch, nice but useless for most people; support for user created themes, yay – I’ve long hated the fact that...
For years I’ve been recommending Jeff’s SqlSiteMapprovider from his MSDN Magazine column, which allows you to have your site map in a database. I had a request this morning on the forums for a copy in VB, so I used the convertor at the excellent DeveloperFusion site and tweaked it a little. So now you can download a copy in VB. Technorati Tags: ASP.NET, SiteMap, SQL
As I blogged earlier, DDD7, the free one day Saturday geek fest, opened for registration this morning. Less than 4 hours later it was full, with plenty of people of the waiting list. I suspect it’s the power of several blogs and tweets, rather than just mine, but it does show the power of the community. There’s no advertising for this, nor is there any need; in fact it would be a waste given the time it took to fill up. Is this a sign of the economic times? Free events fill up quick. For those who haven’t yet...
Go register; you know you want to. Technorati Tags: DDD
A product I’m working on requires colours for certain items, to make them more easily identifiable and these items are often a selection in a list. This makes a great deal of sense as we are visual creatures; it’s much easier to pick out a red item from a list than having to read the text. In UI terms it may not look great, the colours glaring with the overall design, but that’s a point for another day. So it seems sensible to have the list display those colours, but herein lies the problem. Or problems. The ListBox doesn’t...
I’m a Google search user, have been since it was first released. I like the simplicity and the format. I have nothing against other search providers, but I’m comfortable with Google and until something more compelling comes along, I’ll stick with it. I’m a middle aged Englishman, so by nature change doesn’t come easily. This morning I received an email (which Outlook identified as junk mail – oh how I laughed) from the Live Search Team, offering perks if I use Live Search; ooh, swag I though. Just a small download and it’ll track my searches. Wait, a download?...
Disclaimer: I’m not a member of the Church of MVC. But there are bits I really like and there is a huge amount of confusion over, well, just about everything really; what it is, why it’s here', when it should be used, and so on. There is a trend, good or bad, towards REST based architectures and certainly URL rewriting is common, especially in content management systems and anywhere ID values are used in URLs. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could use the cool URL Routing features of MVC in WebForm applications? Well, you can, and it’s actually pretty...
In case you hadn’t noticed, the videos for ReMix UK are now up on the agenda page. Slides are available for most sessions and you can watch the slide/audio presentation inline. You might have to turn up the volume for some of them as the audio is a little quiet. We’re planning to get the 20/20 session split into the individual talks, to make linking to each one easier. Technorati Tags: ReMix, remixuk08