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Monday, January 31, 2005 11:25 AM

The Outlook Web Access team is looking for web developers

Web-based mail is hot. Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook Web Access... They're all making headlines and showing off the richness of the web. The Outlook Web Access team is looking for solid ASP.NET developers to help build our next version. We're looking for people
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Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:19 AM

Pimping the pros

A number of Microsoft Regional Directors , Wintellect folk and INETA speakers have put themselves up on the auction block to help the victims of the tsunami in South East Asia. Get an hour of Jeff Richter , Joel Semeniuk , Scott Hanselman or many more.
Posted by ksharkey | 1 Comments
Saturday, January 22, 2005 11:11 PM

Ruby on Rails: neatesque

Spending Saturday night like the true loser I am -- reading articles on Ruby on Rails . This is a framework/app/whatnot for building database-driven web apps for Ruby. If you haven't heard of it yet, you're pretty much in the same boat I was before reading
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Thursday, January 20, 2005 5:21 PM

"How can I learn ASP.NET?"

Bill Evjen has a great list of resources to help developers get up to speed on ASP.NET. Even worth it for veterans as well, as there is bound to be something on there that will make you say, "Wow, I didn't know about that." Well worth bookmarking as he
Posted by ksharkey | 7 Comments
Thursday, January 20, 2005 2:42 PM

I'm not dynamic, but your apps can be

One moderately common scenario I've seen in requirement documents (or as someone likes to call them, "desirement documents") is the ability to dynamically build a UI form "on the fly" based on something - data table, user role, etc. While this has been
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 9:02 AM

What's new in 2?

I've started an attempt to get the various ASP.NET teams either blogging or (for me) ideally writing for MSDN about their favourite features in ASP.NET 2.0. There has been a lot written about the "Big features", but I think people are (or should be) also
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Monday, January 17, 2005 3:29 PM

Trust everyone, but always cut the cards

There are a lot of ASP.NET Hosters out there. So, logically you want to build ASP.NET applications and put them on the hosters. Simple, dimple? Well, for you. You can fire up Visual Notepad, Web Matrix or Visual Studio .NET and hammer one out of silicon
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Monday, January 17, 2005 11:37 AM

ASP.NET and Community Technology Previews (CTPs)

I know there is a *lot* of confusion around the Community Technology Previews that have been coming out for Visual Studio 2005 . I know because I get a *lot* of email about them. Which build is good, what's in them, etc. That's the prime reason John "The
Posted by ksharkey | 2 Comments
Monday, January 17, 2005 11:12 AM

The Greatest American...

Through a peaceful and democratic process, Canada decided who the " Greatest Canadian " was. While I'm pretty sure who wouldn't win a vote of the Greatest Hungarian or even Greatest German, it seems that the US Discovery channel (aka, the "Let's make
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Friday, January 14, 2005 8:36 AM

I admit it, I peeked

While looking at the Human Clock , I decided (seemingly like a lot of people, including the author) to look at the filenames of the graphics, with the thought of perhaps "leveraging" them. He knew we were coming. This is in the source of the page: Welcome
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:35 AM

Data controls in ASP.NET 2.0

Have I ever told you how much I enjoy 2pm? That's when the "Here are the new articles that went live today" email goes out internally. I get to see what tasty morsels I can tell you about. Of course, I frequently don't get to telling you about until the
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:11 AM

Correctly named config value

One feature of Firefox I find amusing/neat is the about:config URL. It opens a window letting you change the values for any setting for Firefox itself, or your installed extensions. While I had it open for some general spelunking and changing of network
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Friday, January 07, 2005 11:22 AM

Master Page Templates

One of the features I'm really looking forward to ASP.NET 2.0 for is Master Pages. They make creating consistent Web pages easy. However, if you're like me, you have no design skills, and really need a professional designer to "lay things out" for you.
Posted by ksharkey | 3 Comments
Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:32 PM

I blame it entirely on Michelle

Thursday afternoons: "Get Stuff Done" time. Try to clear off my bug list (ugh, only down to 30), headlines for the ASP.NET Developer Center and Visual Studio Developer Center , review articles, other duties as they come up. Instead, read blogs. Michelle
Posted by ksharkey | 5 Comments
Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:20 PM

New year, new article

Well, I *think* yesterday was an official MSFT holiday (I wasn't here, anyway), so today was really the first day of the new year for new headlines and articles. So, we start the year with an article by someone named "Kent Sharkey". He's a (relatively)
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:07 PM

The InfoPath less travelled

I've been meaning to learn InfoPath for a while, and the new(ish) Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET, plus Christmas downtime gave me a chance. See the babbling in the full post. You've been warned -- I know, hard to believe I'm supposed to write for a living.
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Monday, January 03, 2005 12:44 PM

Hello Janus

Three days into 2005, and I'm finally getting to my "Hello new year" post. <sarcasm>I'm sure you were all waiting with baited breath.</sarcasm> 2004 was a year of intense frustration and confusion for me. The frustration was due to {This section
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