On Tuesday night of this week I had the opportunity to present to the San Luis Obispo .NET User Group. This is a new .NET focused group in the central coast of California an aria I have only driven through at break neck speeds to get to San Francisco or back home so I was looking forward to seeing a little of the place.

The group is run by Robert Hope who has done a great job of building a community of people who are interested in .NET. The people at the meeting were quite interesting and had some great questions. I presented on the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions and ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. This was the first time I presented anything about ajax and I was impressed how well received it was received. For the demo pillaged the great content that Steve Marx did in blog post Bad AJAX jokes, good AJAX sample I also had a slide deck but it was not much if you want to see it you can get a pdf of it here.

As an aside after the meeting some of us when out for a drink and they suggested a place downtown called Mothers Tavern but a Linsey Lohan movie was being shot downtown and Mothers was rented out for crew catering. But it was quite surreal seeing how many people were just trying to get a look at Linsey Lohan... If you don't offend easily then checkout what Foamy has to say about celebrates. Yes I feel the same way he dose!


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Posted on: 2/16/2007 at 6:00 AM
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I am huge fan of RSS feeds this is my main way to read blogs and some news but the best readers have never met all of my needs. At this time I use Google Reader and love the experience except when I am not online. I saw a blog post about FeedGhost witch I will be trying next but I am interested to know about other readers as well...

 

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Posted on: 2/9/2007 at 7:03 AM
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I am at a internal Microsoft training event all this week in Seattle and I just got out of a WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere) talk and all I can say is wow! For as much as I don't like thin clients WPF/E applications will be incredibly rich. you can check out a lot of different examples on link to channel9 below.

http://channel9.msdn.com/go/wpfe/quickstarts/

MSDN WFP/E center: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/bb187358.aspx

Get the current CTP at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E63992D3-CCF5-40B9-B98A-D16BCA57467C&displaylang=en

 

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Posted on: 2/7/2007 at 7:59 AM
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I am quite late for this announcement but it is still big.

ScottGu's Blog : ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

If you have not looked in to Ajax yet I would suggest you do! It can make your web pages so much more "rich" for the end user.

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Posted on: 2/7/2007 at 7:52 AM
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Is there a question? I know that even in Microsoft there is debate with the quality of search results between Live.com and Google.com well there a is a cool site that will help you decide dual search will show you a side by side results from a search. I would be interested to hear your results with this.

 

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Posted on: 2/5/2007 at 2:26 AM
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In SoCal Microsoft will be doing two VSTS seminars if you are interested go register.

Los Angeles

Irvine

For more info see all the details here.

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Posted on: 2/4/2007 at 2:30 PM
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I saw the press around Windows Home server but I took some time to look in to it more and wow! I can't wait to get this type of product out there. This will be what I buy all of my family for Xmas next year!

Indepth look at Windows Home Server (video)

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If you use the reports in Visual Studio Team System the team wants to hear from you!

Fill out the survey at http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB22632EPHHNS

I don't know how log it will be open so do it soon so you can be heard!

 

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