So far this seems pretty cool.

I hope I can save stuff locally because sometimes i need to stop in the middle of writing an entry.

ok… there’s a save draft button that seems to todo the trick.

btw- I had to go here :

http://dasblog.info/PostingToDasBlogWithWindowsLiveWriter.aspx

to figure out how to set LiveWriter up with DasBlog.

not too tough – just your url + /blogger.aspx

I tried a variety of letter and number combinations but never figured this out... nice.

how to generate a machine key:

1. http://www.orcsweb.com/articles/aspnetmachinekey.aspx
2. click the button
3. copy the key you just generated to <system.web> in your web.config

- thanks Scott!

Here's a great read:

The Foundation Of Programming Series Free ebook By Karl Seguin
http://codebetter.com/files/folders/codebetter_downloads/entry179694.aspx

If I understand the story correctly, Karl started writing this book as a series of online articles for his website 'Code Wiki' and it turned out so well that it made more sense to put it in an eBook format. I've come across the info in this books more than a handful of times over the past year or so while googling around for coding best practices, architectures, and coding techniques like dependency injection.

Some of what stands out about this work is Karl's ability to

I'm hoping to arrive at a Modular Framework.
The trip will likely be long, but quite interesting... and the destination useful, reusable, consistent, and ideally easy to implement the first time, and refactorable as technology needs change.
The framework will be: 
- n-tiered, where n is at least 3.
- datasets or object datasource
- ado.net 2.0 and then LINQ
- add in a ws or wcf transport
- swap out ASP.NET and WinForms with Silverlight and WPF

Basic layers:

DB - Data Model - Controller - Domain Model - UI

I was on an interview and saw a cool example of what i may be asked to produce. I think the app was done with flash... but i think it'd be easy enough to do with silverlight.

picture a 3 panel screen divided into equal sized left and right halves. On the left half there are 2 equal size panels and on the right half there is 1 taller panel. A video displays on the top left, below it a script with titles and text. On the right half, a slide presentation follows along matching the content.

The first step is to get  silverlight and tools installed (remove old stuff first)
- Expression Blend2 - December
     - remove May version, got rid of Designer too although may not have needed to.
- Expression Encoder
- ASP.NET Futures - don't know if i need this yet, but it sounds way cool!
     - had to remove 3.5 beta and install the real 3.5

Glens' project will primarilly be a winform app with a small web component.

I'm thinking about creating the winform peice as a 2.0 smart client, then redoing it with CAB UI and SCSF.
Then take both of those and put a WPF front end on them.

For the web component, again just create it as a 2.0 app, add ajax, then slap a silverlight front end on it.
somewhere along the way i want to replace the traditional DAL with a web service, and maybe wcf for kicks.
if all goes well, maybe even redo this using the asp.net MVC framework.

CodeCampRDU - spring '08 was great!

Here's my WCF Basics presentation slides and code:

Demo Slides...  WCF Basics - Demo.ppt (141 KB)

Demo Code: (the content is really from Dan' Wahlin's video / blog tutorial / code ) so grab it from there - Thanks Dan!

other Slides: (content abstracted from MSDN - wcf pages) WCF Basics - Presentation.ppt (99 KB)

What an awesome day!  (Feb 2, 2008)

The South Florida .NET Code Camp 2008 was held at DeVry University in Miramar FL - nice location.

Sessions:

1. Getting Started with the ASP.NET MVC Framework
    David Hayden

2. Creating Hyper-Text Videos for Silverlight
    David Silverlight

3. The Future of Subsonic
    Jim Zimmerman

4. Shine your Silver with AJAX
    Anthony Lombardo

5. The Perfect Pattern Storm, where TDD meets UX and MVP
    Ron Jacobs

6. Intro to LINQ to SQL in VS2008
    Chris Rock

Could have been... I suppose... But not too shabby after all ;-)

Last night was a first cut of starting up a loosely-coupled (to an agenda) gathering of .net geeks for an evening of good conversation, good food, good drink, and even some good code/tips/cool things. All in all, I'd say it turned out pretty good.
Only 5 of us showed up and that gave us a chance to get to know Mike who is an advanced computer science teacher at Wake Tech.
Josh showed us his css trick to extend columns the full length of the page - very simple and works well. He just takes the Margin-bottom and Padding-Bottom and sets their value to something unrealistically large like 30,000.

we used SharedView to see Josh's screen - very cool! works for Vista and XP all at the same time, free and easy too!
download here...
using it help here...

www.trinug.com has been re-incarnated!  (just don't tell the Chinese gov) 
- big thanks to Josh and Rob