Untitled-4 Blog Mar 13, 2006 Morning Chuckle Need a quick laugh to start the day? Check out this little gem from Google Videos: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2899771876757809023 Look for enrollment to suddenly increase in journalism schools.
Untitled-4 Blog Mar 04, 2006 LIVE! As you can see, our new Web site is finally live. It has been in the works for many months, and a lot of people put in a lot of time to make it happen. The look was designed by...
Untitled-4 Blog Feb 11, 2006 Atlas Cometh I've been away from the blog for a while because I've been immersing myself in Atlas, the code name for the forthcoming product from Microsoft that is, for lack of a better term, AJAX for ASP.NET. AJAX is the hottest...
Untitled-4 Blog Jan 14, 2006 AMA Insider I recently wrote an article for my local flying club's newsletter and it got picked up by the national organization (the Academy of Model Aeronautics, or AMA). Titled “The Three Deadly Sins of RC Flying,” you can read it here:...
Untitled-4 Blog Dec 20, 2005 Yes, Santa, There is an East Virginia True story from Sara Faatz, Wintellect's director of marketing and communications, who recently moved from Virginia to Georgia: I went to UPS today to ship out some packages. As part of UPS’s shipping regulations, they have to look at your...
Untitled-4 Blog Dec 14, 2005 Francesco Gets a Facelift Francesco Balena is at it again: his .NET-to-the-Max Web site is looking really spiffy after a facelift, and Francesco tells me that in the future, most of his writing will be published in his blog rather than in magazines (U.S....
Untitled-4 Blog Dec 13, 2005 XslCompiledTransform Performance I've been meaning to write some benchmark code to compare the performance of .NET 2.0's new XslCompiledTransform class and 1.1's deprecated XslTransform. I finally got around to it this morning, and the results were a little disappointing. In my tests,...
Untitled-4 Blog Dec 13, 2005 Spice Up Your Web Pages Want to add a cool (albeit IE-only) effect to your ASP.NET 2.0 Web pages? If so, add the following statement to the <head> element of the site's master page: <meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Fade(duration=.5)" /> Then watch what happens as you navigate...
Untitled-4 Blog Dec 09, 2005 Comment My Code I saw a neat T-shirt the other day that said something like this: Comment my code? Why do you think they call it code? I think I'll buy one for every developer I know.
Untitled-4 Blog Dec 07, 2005 SqlCacheDependency Hell I just emerged from SqlCacheDependency hell--actually, SQL Server 2005 hell. I thought I'd document the problem (and the solution) so others won't have to waste as much time as I did. First, I've been using SqlCacheDependency with great success since...
Untitled-4 Blog Dec 07, 2005 Jerky Heaven I love beef jerky. It's a great snack when you're hiking, scuba diving, or spending a long day at the flying field. Lately I've been in jerky heaven since a friend taught me how to make my own. It's not...
Untitled-4 Blog Dec 06, 2005 Session State Partitioning ASP.NET 2.0 is so chock full of new features that it's hardly surprising some of those features are barely documented (or not documented at all). I love sifting through the dirt and uncovering hidden gems that few people know about....