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Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:00 AM

The Secret of the Starter Kits

I couldn't resist. I've been trying to showcase the ASP.NET Starter Kits for a while now, especially since their "1.0" release. However, I don't think I've ever managed to express it as well as Darren did: http://weblogs.asp.net/dneimke/posts/9253.aspx
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Friday, June 20, 2003 1:39 PM

A solution to the VB .NOT crowd

Step 1: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=213 Build Your Own .NET Language and Compiler takes the mystery out of compiler and language development and makes it accessible to every programmer. Ruthlessly practical, this book teaches fundamental
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Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:09 AM

Got COBOL?

Had a brief discussion with Bob Lair today of Intensity Software. They're the folk that work with Fujitsu on NetCobol. They have a version of IBuySpy Store written in COBOL. Worth looking at if you think VB is verbose. Another neat beast they've written
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Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:29 AM

Viewing source, and writer's block

Use the Quickstart Source Code Viewer when making your application source available. Why bother rewriting the wheel?
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:39 PM

Unicode doesn't work when you don't have the fonts...

Graphical version of my previous punchline: TTFN - Kent [Listening to: A Drug Against War - KMFDM]
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:30 PM

Your mileage must vary

I'm sure many of you have heard about the meeting , and perhaps two of you care. Indeed, I've even seen some people worry that we may fall off the web. Well, let me assure you... Oh, wait, I have to add the Legal Disclaimer to this blog entry first (per
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Friday, June 13, 2003 3:34 PM

Sorry about no RSS, it's on the way.

Well, the ASP.NET Developer Center is one day old. I've already received two requests for RSS feeds, so someone must have read my blog entry. The RSS feeds are on the way, they should be in place early next week. I'll post here when they are available.
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Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:33 PM

ASP.NET Developer Center has gone live!

After a 75 day gestation, and a moderately difficult labour, I'm pleased to tell everyone that the new ASP.NET Developer Center has now launched on MSDN at 3:00pm on June 12, 2003 -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/ I'm hoping that people will find
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Friday, June 06, 2003 12:55 AM

That "other" dev center

My other major activity at TechEd was bug-hunting to make certain the Visual J# Developer Center could launch on time. So, now there are nine developer centers. People have asked about the missing one . All I can say is watch the URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net
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Friday, June 06, 2003 12:15 AM

Memories of TechEd, part II

Overall, I feel good-ish about TechEd. There were a lot of people there. D said it was a record attendance. Could this mean the recession/depression/slowdown is over? Dev Connections also seemed to have a larger attendance this year, compared to last.
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Friday, June 06, 2003 12:06 AM

Memories of TechEd, part I

I'm sitting in the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, waiting for 4:30am (for the whole sordid tale, see my other blog ). Time to start reminiscing about TechEd 2003. As is often the case at these things -- I didn't see many talks. They often hit me as overly
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Thursday, June 05, 2003 6:17 PM

News for three of you

I haven't scanned too deeply into old posts, so I'm assuming no one has noticed/cares, so I'll post. For the three or four of you that care, the Visual J# Developer Center has launched! Here's your one stop center for all the VJ# information you need
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