Random Technology Ramblings

Microsoft, O’Reilly & Dr. Drbb’s are sponsoring a set of webcasts for JSP, PHP and ColdFusion developers that will give resources to use existing web development knowledge with ASP.NET and then you get a free copy Visual Studio Standard Edition and five chapters of Programming ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference, by Dino Esposito. Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 […]

Cool set of add-ins for the Class Designer at the ClassDesigner’s WebLog

I got to present to the to the ASP.NET Users Group in San Diego last night on the ASP.NET HTTP life cycle. I hope all in attendance enjoyed the topic I know that each time i work with HttpModules and HttpHandlers I get a whole new appreciation for what ASP.NET dose for us! Here is […]

Back to the theme of supporting family members computers, beta 2 of the Windows Defender is now in beta 2.

OK this is only for the hard core geeks but some great go getters in the LA area are putting together a BarCamp… don’t know what a BarCamp is? Check out the BarCamp Los Angeles wed site where there are several links to find-out more information. I will be there and hope to give some talks […]

I have been asked of late some questions on how to do distribution of Smart Client applications with Visual Studio 2005. To use the traditional installer you will need to get to know the Windows Installer SDK with this SDK you can do anything you may want. Make sure you checkout the ClickOnce information so you […]

I can’t take credit for this graphic but I was such a good depiction of the capabilities of Windows Mobile 5 and the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) that I had to post it. What this means is that most of Microsoft biggest customers and a lot of small customers have all they need today […]

Do you want to protect your home, fiends and families systems? Try Windows OneCare Live and let Microsoft know what you think.

I am doing some research on implementing Themes and Master pages and I found a great resource… The ASP.NET for Designers has some great resources for developers wanting to learn how to make there sites work the best for designers.

Public beta of the MSBuild Extras – Toolkit for .NET 1.1 has been posted. This is great for customers who are using the VS 2003 plug-in for TFS and want to use MSBuild.