September, 2008

In today’s MSDN Roadshow in Roanoke, VA, I talked about a couple of the enhancements that have been added to ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 SP1, AJAX History, and Script Combining. Given time constraints, I did not have time to demo this functionality, but...

If you haven’t yet registered for the MSDN Roadshow events taking place this week in Roanoke and Baltimore, you’re almost out of time. I’ll be storming Roanoke tomorrow with my road trip buds Zhiming Xue and Ashish Jaiman for a full day of web development...

If you’ve attended one of Frank La Vigne ’s talks on design for developers, you’ve probably heard of the Adobe Kuler website/tool. It’s a great tool for quickly finding (or building) a ‘theme’ of colors that work well together. Jonas Follesø, a Microsoft...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:00 AM: MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow - MSDN Roadshow is a series of local Microsoft MSDN events for developers, architects...

Are you an ASP.NET developer torn between the built-in support for ASP.NET AJAX, and the richness of the jQuery AJAX library? Well I have good news for you. Scott Guthrie announced today that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio moving...

[bumped and updated] For folks who attended my MSDN Event yesterday in Reston, covering WPF, Windows Vista Security, and .NET 3.5 SP1, here’s where you can get the decks and some of the code from those talks ( I’m seeing if we can get the rest of the...

[bumping to the top for the benefit of folks who attended my CapArea.net talk on this topic] Here are links to tools and tips that I mentioned in my talk this afternoon on Geocoding, RSS, and Mapping at VSLive! New York : Sign Up for a MapPoint Web Service...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Monday, September 22, 2008 7:00 PM: DC-MD-VA Microsoft Robotics Studio Group - MRDS Workshop 2. We all know there is some complexity using Microsoft...

Somehow my original post with the resources for my AJAX talk last week at VSLive! disappeared, so here’s a re-post…here are the links to resources, tools, and tips mentioned in my talk, Controlling AJAX when you’re out of control, last week at VSLive...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area…note that the MSDN Events in Reston (9/16) and Richmond (9/18) are being presented by yours truly, as is the presentation on AJAX at the Charlottesville...

I am definitely looking forward to this. Hope to see blue in the the larger sizes, too. I think it’s fair to say that the WiFi features are definitely coming into their own. More information here . Oh, and all of the new features will be available for...

OK, so I’m a day late with this, but I plead travel, as I’m on the road at VSLive! New York through Wednesday. Anyway, here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Wednesday, September 10, 2008...

Why do I have the Beastie Boys running through my head this morning? Oh yeah, it’s because I’ll be in Brooklyn, NY this week for VSLive! New York . I’m doing two sessions: Controlling AJAX when You’re Out of Control – Monday, September 8th, 1:45-3:00pm...

Hope most of you end up reading this on Tuesday, but for those of you who happen to be online on Labor Day, here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:30 PM: CMAP...