May 2005 - Posts

Don't Try This at Home

Hong Kong's old Kai Tak airport was legendary for its insane approaches, but this one takes the cake: a video of a Korean Airlines 747 landing the hard way . Gee, I wonder how the people on board felt? It's not every day your entire life flashes before Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:22 PM by jprosise | 3 Comments
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How I Paid $200 a Night for Internet Access (and Loved It)

I arrived in London this morning and made my way to the suburb of Maidenhead, where I'm working this week. I'm staying at a beautiful little hotel called Fredrick's . There's a story behind the reason I'm staying here. As you know if you've traveled in Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 22, 2005 6:27 PM by jprosise | 5 Comments
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Boys and Their Toys

I'm off to London in a few hours to spend a week over there. (I'm trying desperately to match John Robbins' air miles this year, but he's setting the bar awfully high.) But first I had to drive to Virginia go pick up my new toy. Here are some pics: F/A-18 Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 21, 2005 4:32 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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Splashdown!

This weekend our club held its twice-annual float fly, and today we witnessed a spectacular crash which I happened to get a snapshot of just as the plane hit the water. I'm not sure what kind of plane it was. Someone said it was built from a 1956 kit. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 4:02 AM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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Coming Soon: ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Toolkit

I'm currently working on an extremely cool project for the ASP.NET team: building an ASP.NET 2.0 provider toolkit. The provider architecture is one of ASP.NET 2.0's most important new features, IMHO. The team decided that if the architecture wasn't documented Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 12, 2005 7:02 PM by jprosise | 5 Comments
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More on Migrating from B1 to B2

I forgot to mention one of the most obvious changes in ASP.NET 2.0 beta 2: the fact that the “special” directory names changed. The Code directory is now named App_Code, Resources is named App_GlobalResources, LocalResources is named App_LocalResources, Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 07, 2005 12:32 PM by jprosise | 4 Comments
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"Poo" Code

Devscovery got off to a rollicking start today with Jeffrey Richter coining a new term for suboptimal code. Jeffrey compared the performance of for loops, foreach loops, and Whidbey's new ForEach loops. foreach turned in the worst performance and was Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:09 AM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Beta 1 to Beta 2

I spent a good deal of time last week updating all my ASP.NET 2.0 beta 1 code samples for beta 2. A LOT of stuff changed, so I compiled the following list to help others who are going down the same path. The list is by no means comprehensive, but it does Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:59 AM by jprosise | 4 Comments
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Devscovery Bound

I'm off to the airport in a few minutes for Washington, D.C. and Devscovery . I've enjoyed having most of the last two weeks at home, although I did make 1-day trips to New York City and Springfield, MO. This week should be fun because the caliber of Read More...
Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 3:07 PM by jprosise | 0 Comments
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