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September 22, 2006
CardSpace & WCF
Don Box, Steve Maine, and Richard Turner are presenting on identity with Card Space and also speaking on WCF. I’ll brb as we move forward in the preso.
Ok…Don is crazy. :-) He is absolutely hilarious and a pretty solid presenter. To give an idea about his energy and approach (which is, in my opinion, is “I am me…except it or not.”), one guy (the creator of Qcodo, a PHP framework) answered one of Don’s questions (regarding what MSFT can do better) by saying “Give Windows away for free.” Don’s response was “F*** YOU!” LMBO. :-) It was truly hilarious. He explained why (basically, he has kids and he gets paid from Windows sales; lol) but it shows his preso style. He’s just open and speaks his mind. Great guy, it seems. :-) Update He just apologized (again, everyone laughed) and said it’d be great if it was free but, in my words, the money is needed.
Ok…let’s move to what the preso is about.
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April 24, 2006
Paging, Paging, and more Paging!!!!
If you follow my blog you’ll remember I posted about my first ASP.Net site experience and raved about the paging feature. Either way, you can read my post here.
Well, it seems this is the year clients want paging on EVERYTHING. :-) KM has been contracted to do the following sites with paging:
(shows visual element [+ backend] + database)
- PHP + Microsoft Access
- Coldfusion + SQL 2005
- Flash + PHP + MySQL
Every one of those languages/implementations called for custom paging code. I’m so sick of writing the variables totalPages, currentPage, etc! LOL. (clients; don’t let this deter you. we’ll still code it for you) :-)
Ultimately, it goes back to how easy it was in ASP.Net to add paging to a table of data (1 parameter and I’m done). I just wish it was this easy across the board.
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April 22, 2006
Apollo Preso @ FITC
It seems Adobe is showing off Apollo at FITC and wowing some people. There is a Flickr feed up that showcases some images from the preso. All of this info I found on Ryan Stewart’s blog here.
The best part I’ve seen so far is how Apollo can create apps with HTML/JS alone. That is pretty sweet. This definitely opens up the arena for other developers who don’t care for Flash to build apps with potentially native knowledge. Also helps out the Ajax community. Most Ajax’ers I speak to live and die by it and bash Flash. Those people probably won’t touch this simply because it is related to Flash. lol. That would probably be a minority though.
One of the other slick parts is the PDF support. I’m not 100% sure how it’ll integrate and/or even be useful but I’m sure Adobe has something up there sleeve that will wow us.
Checkout Ryan’s blog and peep the Flickr feed. There are some very interesting images in there.
Good stuff Adobe!
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February 6, 2006
Zinc 2.5.0.10 Released
Multidmedia spit out a new build for Zinc. I looked through the list of fixes, etc but did not see a fix for the memory leak issue. If you aren’t familiar, Zinc fails after roughly 24 hours…why? If they knew they would fix it…don’t you think? :-) Well, some people don’t think so so they have turned to apps like Screenweaver.
Anyways, this is supposed to be a positive post. Zinc has a new version so check it out, update your current version, and run some tests. I’ve had several issues already but hopefully they are user related. :-) If I find out otherwise I’ll blog it.
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