Jack of all trades; Master of one.
Internet/Web-related.
Jon Udel is a big fan of using screencasts to instruct, and I’m a big fan of watching them when I want to learn something. I’d like to start doing some of my own. However, reading his post on screencasting tips today, I was reminded of how I can’t help but think that TechSmith is really …
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When it comes to programming on the modern-day GUI (post-DOS) platform, the vast majority of my coding has been, in order of experience, using T-SQL, VBScript in ASP, and about equal parts classic VB (v3.0 to v6.0) and VB.NET. As you can see from my order of experience, I’m really a database guy, and since the …
Continue reading “On the Hunt for a New Programming Language”
David Laribee just referenced my IIS 7.0: Too Little, Too Late? post and he made an interesting comment that I hadn’t previously pondered but that is very relevent: It’s a major bummer that there’s no such thing as a virtualized “.NET Application Container” for the new scalable grid computing and provisioning services coming out (Amazon …
Continue reading “Another Missed Ball: No .NET Application Container”
Back in January 2006, I blogged about how much I wanted an IIS 7.0 that handles extensionless URL rewriting. Well this week I just got my March 2007 copy of Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine in which they ran a detailed technical preview of the features and functionality of Internet Information Server 7.0. Reading through it, I …
I needed to get a small content website up and running for a project a friend of mine and I are working on, and we started discussing what to use; i.e. raw HTML, a web framework, a CMS, or something else. I have experience on ASP, IIS, and Windows Server using my own mini ASP-based …
Over on the Well Designed URLs Initiative blog, which is my baby, I’ve started a call-to-action to get people to use delicious to tag: URLs that Suck! Check it out, and then be sure to tag any especially bad URLs with the tag “urls-that-suck” on delicious.
While I’m not in the habit of link blogging, Jason Kolb blogged a similar take to my recent themes about Microsoft entitled Five Not-So-Easy Steps to Save Microsoft. Jason starts with: Let me stick a disclaimer on the front of this post: I cut my teeth on Microsoft technology and have been a big supporter …
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Some one sent me a link to this page about REST and when I went to print it, up popped THE MOST AWESOME Print Dialog I’ve EVER seen on the web! I so hope this guy starts a trend… P.S. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me to link directly to it, or I would.
I made two posts recently discussing Microsoft’s Developer Division. Although I had strong feelings about the issues, my thoughts were still too unclear to be succinct. But writing clarifies thought and I had already waited too long to post so a-posting I went. Reading the comments it became clear I had muddled several issues: How …
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Just who are the “Weborati“[1] you ask? And where does the term come from? Well, to answer the latter question, It’s a neologism that just made up; please don’t shoot me for it. :) As for the former, they are people who either created – starting with Tim Berners-Lee – who have passionately shepherded the …