ASP.NET 2.0 Feature Conversion Completed

We officially rolled out a release of the “My” Mimeo.com web application this weekend. While we actually added some really great customer features, one of the biggest things in this release development wise was a full upgrade to use several features of ASP.NET 2.0 that were previously solved by a bunch of proprietary code that I wrote […]

Solving the back button problem in Atlas

Nikhil has posted a control which aims to fix a common problem with most AJAX frameworks where users tend to lose the all too familiar history navigation paradigm that they are used to relying on. What Nikhil has provided is an elegant solution based on the awesome UpdatePanel feature of Atlas. If you’re doing AJAX with […]

Agile Architect

Sam Gentile has an absolutely awesome post on the importance of the role of the Software Architect even in Agile based development. As Chief Software Architect here at Mimeo, this obviously touches close to home. We’ve adopted Agile, but I still make sure that we budget time for architecture tasks for each iteration. As Sam […]

Providing custom context to your WCF service operations

First off, I’d like to say that I absolutely love how extensible WCF is. So far there hasn’t been anything I can’t do. Unfortunately the documentation, examples and guidance around extensibility is still lacking a bit at this point. This is somewhat disturbing considering that RC1 just went out. Now, on to what I really want to […]

.NET 3.0 RC1 Now Available

Just found out via Rob Relyea that .NET 3.0 RC1 is now available. Here’s everyone’s last chance to file show-stopper bugs! Also note that Rob points out that EID and Orcas aren’t available yet for this build, but they should be available soon. So, if you need those tools, you might want to postpone your upgrade.

Petzold’s WPF Book Finally Available

Just found out via Rob Relyea’s blog that Charles Petzold’s WPF Book has finally arrived. I know I’ll be picking up a copy ASAP, how about you?

Paul Thurott looks at Leopard and sums up Apple’s Vista envy quite nicely

I kinda hinted at how lame the Vista bashing was in my first post about the WWDC. Well, Paul Thurott basically says everything I would have to say quite nicely here in his OSX Leopard preview. I can’t wait until certain other features are able to be talked about because it’ll be really fun to […]

WWDC Day 2: Apple playing catch-up in technology

So, I can’t talk about anything that isn’t already on the web because, unlike a PDC, everything you learn at WWDC is considered private. What I can say is that while OSX is undeniably kicking XP’s ass and probably going to still come out on top of Vista in terms of user experiece, they sure […]

WWDC Day 1: Vista Under Fire

Well, I’m back in my hotel after a big Day 1 at Apple’s WWDC. Before the keynote was even started, people gettig on line were greated by three huge banners promoting Leopard. Makes sense, this is after all the big unveiling, but what was more interesting is that the taglines for these banners, rather than […]

Miguel calls WPF the J2EE of GUI APIs

My friend Doug pointed me to Miguel’s post about WPF today where he calls it the J2EE of GUI APIs. While I’ve read some of Miguel’s previous posts about WPF, to make such a broad statement as this, you would think a person would back it up with some examples of exactly what about Avalon is so overly-complex, […]

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