The first Hartford, CT Code Camp has been announced and is scheduled for Saturday August 16, 2008. Details are limited but some information is available. A code camp is a FREE, community-driven, all-day event for developers. Speakers are local or regional developers. Topics are based on community interest...
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Microsoft released the ASP.NET MVC Framework updates to CTP 2 in the middle of April and for those using it you may have noticed some changes to the way certain things are done. I am working on a project where I am using the CTP to get a web site built and learning ASP.NET MVC along the way. I started...
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I have wanted to be a Windows Vista user and developer since before it was released, but there always seemed like something didn't work or some application I used kept crashing. The pure pain of the performance of Vista alone was not worth the "upgrade" from Windows XP. I have tried both the...
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As an fan of all things MVC, today's news of the release of the ASP.NET MVC Source Code was really good news. I think it shows Microsoft's continued steps toward being open source. Scott Guthrie was the one breaking the news and he has some details on his blog to check out. The source was released as...
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I have had the extreme pleasure of working with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services lately (notice the extreme sarcasm in my tone). I am working on a project for a large client and one part of the project requires I enhance a report to support multiple languages. This post is not about localization...
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The team providing us with the ASP.NET MVC Framework made available the 2nd preview release during the MIX08 Conference March 5-7, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV. This release has many great changes as they team works toward an RTM maybe later in the year, but no promises were made. I just wanted to point out...
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Ron Conery , who recently joined Microsoft has somehow found time to release a new version of SubSonic , 2.1 in beta. I have been using SubSonic since the 2.0 release and find it is a really nice OR/M tool for .NET applications. It offers some of the things I find particularly attractive in Ruby on Rails...
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I have heard over the past year or so rumors about Microsoft buying Yahoo and it never seemed to materialize. You know how rumors get started, it is a good story against the monster Google. Strictly from a shareholder's point of view this is good news. It's good news if you are a Yahoo shareholder because...
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Rob Conery's recent post, Ramble: ASP.NET MVC Is A Geek Chisel started me thinking again about the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework. I develop software targeting the .NET framework as well as Ruby web applications using Ruby on Rails. The .NET applications I manage have clients ranging from small shops...
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The moment has finally arrived, Microsoft released their first CTP of the MVC Framework . I am very anxious to get some time to start working with the bits they are releasing today. I plan to get heavily into this framework and will post some tidbits of how it works, but in the meantime here are links...
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