Joe Stagner - Frustrated by Design !

It's getting close!!!!!! The nature of software development is radically changing. At PDC2008 Ray Ozzie will lay out Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing and building applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web and mobile devices...

Rob Bagby is in the midst of a blog series on REST in WCF and been building a series of screencasts on the same subject (in conjunction with Ron Jacobs). Since it's such an interesting topic, especially to AJAX developers I thought I'd share them here...

Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets: Andrew King: Books ISBN : 0596515081 ISBN-13 : 9780596515089 The folks at O'Reilly recently published this gem ! From the book description: This book is a comprehensive guide...

I'm working on my demos for ZendCon and updating a PHP Chat application built on the Microsoft Ajax Client Libraries and the PHPMSAJAX codeplex project. Since I want to use a JSON serializer and PHP 5.2 has one built in, I wanted to upgrade the default...

So there is this very smart guy on the ASP.NET team named David Hunter who is one of the guys working on Dynamic Data ! He has just added a sample of using Dynamic Data with Stored Procedures to the Dynamic Data Samples on CodePlex. Click [ HERE ] for...

The Deep Fried Bytes guys caught  up with me at DevLink and we had a talk about developer security needs, mistakes, activities, etc ! Listen Here http://deepfriedbytes.com/

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Christian Wenz has pushed a new release of he PHP libraries for the Microsoft AJAX libraries with support version 3.5. Get it here on Codeplex http://www.codeplex.com/phpmsajax

Note that the IIS component list of items to install is EMPTY !!! And, I WAS running as Admin ! The real problem was that a CGI process that I was playing with stopped IIS. Sometimes we gotta laugh at ourselves :)

Murach's ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with VB 2008: Anne Boehm: Books ISBN : 1890774472 ISBN-13 : 9781890774479 I love this book. If I were going to teach a course on ASP.NET Development with VB - THIS is the book I would teach it from ! Get a a copy...

Meet my friend Armin He's the handsome your Iranian dude wearing the MSDN Event Would Tour Tee-Shirt shown here at Kandovan in a city called Trabriz. Armin and I have been pen-pals for a couple of years now. We met when Armin emailed me to ask a programming...

I go to ALOT of developer events. Usually, they are work - meaning I probably wouldn't go if I were a retired Millionaire. DevLink was AWESOME. It was kind of link that perfect summer back in school when all the right people were in the right place and...

Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples This book written by Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo is part of an effort to provide all developers with a core understanding of algorithms that operate on various common, and uncommon...

I was chatting with Billy Hollis about how we often use new technology to do the same old thing and how I was seeing lots of folks doing this with WPF and Silverlight. He mentioned that he had done a video in UI Design with WPF. Check it out, its great...

Kentico CMS Free Edition Since the free license for .NET User Groups was very successful, we decided to release a Free Edition of Kentico CMS for everyone! It can be used for both personal and commercial projects. It’s intended for smaller corporate...

A couple of folks have emailed me because that haven't been able to reconstitute the Video Database I've been using in the Data Access video tutorials. Here is a .zip file.  http://www.misfitgeek.com/downloads/SQLDATA_VideoDirectory.zip It contains...

The Slackers have been busy ! Check out the Open Source project on CodePlex. http://www.codeplex.com/AjaxDataControls/ Not only is there a controls library and all the source code for the controls but a RICH set of demos that illustrate utilization. I...

There is a reason they call me the Misfit Geek :) I've been doing PHP work for almost 10 years and I've worked at Microsoft for 7 of them. When I talk about Open Source, it's not form a "religions" perspective. I'm interested in the applications...

  Yesterday my wife and my children left the house and my 6 year old asked where they were going. When Jill told Mia they were going to the mall, Mia said "Good, I wanna get my ears pierced." She went through with it with no crying and...

60 Free controls are available from DevExpress. Some for ASP.NET and some for Windows Forms. Check them out at ...... http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Free/WebRegistration60/

The first three videos are live. #1 | Data Access Layers in ASP.NET Applications #2 | How to Manually Bind a Dataset to a Datagrid #3 | How to Work with Datasets and Filters from an ASP Application More coming soon. [ Get them here. ]

#8 | Changing Membership Settings in the Default Membership Schema #9 | Configuring SQL To Work with Membership Schemas #10 | Understanding ASP.NET Memberships [ Get them here ]

Lots, even MOST PHP applications are Open Souce but what if you want to distribute your application but don't want to distribute your PHP Source Code ? Check out Nu-Coder from NuSphere. Nu-Coder converts the source code of PHP Script into compiled PHP...

Mike Taulty recently uploaded and amazing collection of Silverlight 2.0 screencasts on how Silverlight works, controls, File IO, networking, UI design,  data-binding, interacting with HTML pages, and more. If you want to learn about Silverlight,...