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Free Education!
Aug 25th
You know, every day I become more and more impressed about the amount of information that is freely available on the internet. Recently, I came across two online learning sites that may help you brush up on some of those old college or high school courses and it was amazing how a little refresher will get your brain going again. The Khan Academy and MIT’s Open Courseware.
As you know, MIT is one of the best technology institution in the nation and anything they can offer for free is invaluable. The Khan Academy on the other hand is not affiliated with any college or university; but the individual that provides the free resources is a MIT graduate and a Harvard Business School MBA graduate. I have enjoyed many of his math courses and he does a far better job explaining things than the majority of my undergraduate professors.
I do intend to go back to school someday; however I have not decided on any program as yet and no doubt I would have to brush up on a few things. So these resources will come in very handy for me. I hope you find some use for these as well. There is that saying that “knowledge is power”. Until next time…
Happy Learning! 
Introduction to MSBUILD on dnrTV
Aug 8th
Earlier this week I watch the latest episode of dnrTV on MSBUILD and I must say I can’t wait for part two. MSBUILD is one of this hidden gems in .NET and this tool can be a real timesaver if you know how and when to use it. If you got a hour or so to spare I would encourage you to watch this episode and maybe you will have the same reaction that I did. Until next time…
Happy Programming!
A little late to the game
Aug 8th
There have been two recent releases that I have been playing around with. First, Windows 7 was just released for MSDN subscribed members and being one, I was able to download and install within 48 hours. The download took almost 12 hrs since I had to compete with everyone else. However, take my word, it’s worth the wait. I’ve been using Windows Vista for about 2 yrs now and even though it was a nice improvement over Windows XP, it wasn’t ready when it was released and I pretty much considered it to be a BETA product. That has all changed with Windows 7 and this is what we should have gotten in the first release.
Secondly, ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview was recently relapsed for us to play around with and provided our feedback to the Microsoft developer team. I consider myself to be more of a web developer and I think this is the framework I’ve been waiting for. Don’t get me wrong, I still prefer ASP.NET Web Forms for certain projects; but if you are looking to build a Web 2.0 centric application that has SEO friendly URL’s and clean markup, then you should be using ASP.NET MVC. You can find out more information about this new release by checking out the following blogs:
I would also recommend you subscribing each of their blogs if you want to keep up to date with ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET in general. Until next time…
Happy Programming!
I’m still alive
Jul 28th
Yes, I know, I haven’t blogged in a while. Been a little busy…been a little lazy; but I’ll try to do a better job starting next month. However, I do occasionally Twitter. Follow me @tampacoder. I also follow a lot of good people in the industry, so you should probably follow them as well. Until next time…
Happy Programming!
Forgotten AJAX Extenders
Jun 3rd
Today, I started a project on CodePlex called Forgotten AJAX Extenders. The purpose was to create my own Ajax control based on the ASP.Net Ajax Control Toolkit. The toolkit comes with a nice set of pre-built controls; but I think a few controls were left out and that was the reasoning behind the Forgotten AJAX Extenders project name. The first control under development is the Textbox Character Count Extender. I posted a lengthy explanation about what this extender control does on my project home page. Please let me know what you think and if there is a feature that you fell is missing, please use the Discussions tab to provide me with your comments. Well, that’s all for now. Until next time…
Happy Programming!
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 released for MSDN Subscribers
May 18th
Soma announced it today. I’ve got it downloaded and installed in my Windows 7 RC1 that boots from a .vhd file, a new feature with Windows 7. Here is what it looks like:
Well, as you can see, I’ve already starting play around with it and if there is any gotchas I’ll be sure to blog about it. Anyways, if you don’t have a MSDN Subscription, then they are planning on releasing the bits on Wed for non-subscribers. Until next time…
Happy Programming!
MIX09 Sessions are now online!
Mar 20th
I’m not going to MIX09 but…
Mar 16th
I will surely be watching the sessions online. I will also be following the conference update from attendees via Twitter via the #mix09 hashtag. The big event to watch is the Keynote by none other than Scott Gu himself, which will be steamed online on 3/18 @ 12pm EST. I expect a lot of big announcements. I will also post any links to session that I find very interesting. Anyways, that is all I have. Until next time..
Happy Programming!!
Free ASP.NET Security Screencast Series
Feb 21st
Pluralsight is a .NET training company that use to only offer on-site instructor lead courses. However, beginning late last year they launch a new version of their website with the main feature being On-Demand video training. Even though this on-demand training feature isn’t free, they have provided some free training for you to sample. Last week I sat and watch their entire ASP.NET Security training series and I really learned a lot. If I had the money, I would pay for their entire online training courses. These guys are good. Anyways, I just thought I should share that with you. Until next time…
Happy Programming!
Microsoft lands another big client
Jan 20th
Check out WhiteHouse.gov. It’s running on the ASP.NET platform. I also noted that the Presidential Inaugural Committee streamed live video of the swearing in ceremony. I would say, Microsoft landed a big, very big client. Until next time…
Happy Coding!
