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July 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:12 AM

How to Program Visual Basic 2008 - a master text.

Deitel books are great learning tools and often used as course text or soup to nuts learning guides. Also the physical quality of the book (printing, paper choice, color, etc) make it a collectors item if your a book lover) I had the pleasure of being
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:46 PM

Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails

Not really "new" news but I stumbled across this while trying to figure out why Twitter seems to be down every day these days. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/ “We’re hearing this
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:33 AM

Version 1.0 RTM of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is live!

Version 1.0 of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is available for download on the MSDN download site. The possibilities are endless !!!
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Monday, July 28, 2008 11:09 AM

www.ASP.net - What's Missing ?

Next week I have a week full of meetings on things like. The Next Version of Web Forms Dynamic Data v.now and v.next ASP.NET 4.0 But the BIG part of the week will be spent on strategic planning for www.ASP.net web sites in the coming year. We want to
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:36 PM

ReactOS - What's the point ?

The GPL dudes have invented a new Operating System. WINDOWS :) - http://www.reactos.org/ I especially get a kick out of how it's a complete rip-off of Windows, but their web site has a bunch of dialog protecting their Trademark ! I know that a small but
Posted by JoeStagner | 3 Comments
Monday, July 21, 2008 4:03 PM

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 available

We're very happy to announce that the first preview for the new Ajax features in ASP.NET just went live. For more information check out the Roadmap . This preview contains preview implementations for the following features: Client-side template rendering
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Monday, July 21, 2008 10:34 AM

Risks with Cloud Computing.

Dolores Labs posted recently " Amazon’s S3 Web Service, our #1 cause of failure " [ Click HERE to READ ] Amazon.com is a great company and a early innovator in the Web Services Community. (God knows I send them ALOT of money.) So this
Posted by JoeStagner | 2 Comments
Friday, July 18, 2008 11:19 AM

Tweak UAC

Dies UAC give you a rash ? It does me !!! It's not that it isn't a good idea - it is. But I really wish I could train it or over ride it. Maybe in a future Windows version - in the mean time, I'm trying Tweak UAC which provides a "Quiet Mode"
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Friday, July 18, 2008 11:09 AM

Will ASP.NET MVC will be the main web platform for ASP.NET?

Microsoft folks are very enthusiastic ! We love to dig in to new technology and show off the cool work that we do and this has been VERY true of ASP.NET MVC. Unfortunately, sometimes our zeal get's misinterpreted. I'm getting lots of questions about the
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Friday, July 18, 2008 8:37 AM

New Security Video Series Launched

Please checkout the first videos in my new Web Developer's Security Video Series. http://www.asp.net/learn/security-videos/ I'm hoping to do 100 Videos this year ! PLEASE SEND YOUR REQUESTS !!!
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Friday, July 18, 2008 8:30 AM

Announcing SecureDeveloper.com

  For many years I've had an interest in and a focus on Application Security. Now, I'll be ramping up and doing a bunch of security related work in my role here at Microsoft. I hope you will add www.SecureDeveloper.com to your blog reader. I expect
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:19 PM

Summer ASP.NET Missions

Spring is ugly in my job. From early March until late June I'm on the road. Conferences, Meetings, etc. Then when I finally get done my spring traveling.... There is "make up" work to do. I have to "make it up" to my two little princess
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:54 AM

LifeCycleSecurity conference - Aug 8 & 9 - Las Vegas, Nevada

T Check out this 2 day security brain fest. It happens to be right after Black Hat in Vegas. See you there ? The LifeCycleSecurity conference was started to provide a venue where professionals in the Application Security industry can learn from each other's
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Friday, July 11, 2008 8:40 AM

Who's Watching What You're Watching?

From - http://www.vistanews.com/ According to the Broadband Report, as of last March 57% of U.S. households had broadband Internet. These high speed connections make it possible to enjoy multi-media applications, something that doesn't work well - if
Posted by JoeStagner | 3 Comments
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:39 PM

Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls

It's finally hitting the street - " Advanced ASP.NET Ajax Server Controls " I had the pleasure to be a technical reviewer on this book during the writing process and am really excited about it's release. This book if one of the few that dive
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Monday, July 07, 2008 9:59 AM

BlogEngine.NET 1.4 released

Check out the New features in BlogEngine.NET 1.4 New database provider BlogEngine.NET now works with most commercial and open source databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, VistaDB and many others. This allow you to use practically any database supported
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:59 AM

How I got started in programming.

Well, Dave Ward tagged me in Michael Eaton’s software development meme that’s been going around. As far as blog-chain-letters go, this is a great one. It’s interesting to see how many diverse backgrounds lead us in the same direction.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 8:21 AM

Aggiorno - Improving the web one tag at a time.

That's there motto anyway. It's actually a very interesting product from my friends at ArtinSoft. Add Alternate Text To Image Assign Tab Index Convert Text To XHTML List Convert Text To XHTML Paragraphs Extract And Merge Inline Style Fix Deprecated Elements
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