Between preparing for and attending CodeMash last week and catching up on work that was waiting for me when I got back from CodeMash I haven’t had a lot of time to work on WhatIWantMost. Yeah, I know, woe is me. You don’t want to hear about my…
”… we may have more in common than we think” from the leader of a Python user group to the rest of the virtual CodeMash Google Group audience. I tried to avoid the philosophical “we are the world” mumbo-jumbo that surrounded the CodeMash conference…
After updating to ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 you may get the following Javascript Error (especially for pages making use of animation): “Sys.Debug.IsDebug is null or not an object” or something else about Sys.Debug, depending on your browser of choice. The…
As a web application developer I tend to spend most my time writing code to make web sites do stuff. I spend a lot of time working with databases and various n-tier layers except for one. I choose to keep my nose (as much as possible) out of the UI…
As I sit down to write this post, ” codemash ” is the number #1 searched term on Technorati . To say our little grassroots, non-denominational, cross-platform/language conference was a success would be an understatement. I wrote “our conference…
Scott Gu ’s keynote presentation on LINQ was great! As was his ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks presentation. Next for me was Dave Donaldson ’s NHibernate presentation. Dave’s presentations are always a pleasure to attend and learning something about…
Bruce Eckel ’s after lunch keynote speech was great, too. It was all about thinking outside the box, experimenting, and kind of like applying principles from the design world into development. It was very motivating. After that I attended Ben Carey…
Neal Ford ’s keynote presentation on Domain Specific Languages and Language Oriented Programming was great. Neal is a great speaker and a very smart guy! In fact, I’m sitting beside him in the speaker’s room right now listening to him shoot the…
Joe Wirtley and I will be giving our Real World Continuous Integration with CC.NET, NAnt, NUnit, etc. presentation tomorrow evening at the Cinncinnati .NET Users Group . Yes, it is the same presentation that we will be giving 3 days later at…
Friday my daughter relayed something she overheard in the school nurse’s office that day. She went to the nurse because she had scraped her knee a little at recess and needed to get a Band-Aid. While she was getting “treated” a boy came in who she…
