Jeff Makes Software

I was reading a little more about the role management in ASP.NET v2.0 when I realized that, duh, the reason it's not on by default is that it checks the logged in user roles for you and adds them to the user's Principal object. I was so blinded by the idea that I had a fun little HttpModule that did this for you (back in the “dark ages” of .NET v1.1) that I overlooked that.

Anyone that published a small Web site than pulled a few hundred thousand visits a month circa 1999 knows that you could make an OK dollar producing such a site. It was a blast because if you did it, it was probably something you were really excited about, and it was a labor of love that proved to be a hobby with income.

One thing I noticed about being self-employed (er, a bum, or something), is that I've had more time to blog. I feel like I've been doing it a lot more since I quit working for The Man.

The typical e-mail or phone call I get these days from recruiters go something like this:

I may go for days writing or writing code, and it's interesting that when I take a break, I need to create something physical.

I finally finished my book chapter on Web services. Like the rest of the book, the goal is to get beginners up to mid-level code monkeys. I have to admit that I've not done a ton of work with Web services, though I've consumed those provided by Amazon and Google for little projects, and written a few in various jobs that send and receive fairly concise objects. I'm comfortable in my knowledge, but there are a lot of people that know far more than I do, especially with regards to the underlying XML SOAP structure.

And people wonder why politicians are loathed by young people...

I haven't done much to update uberasp.net because the book is taking most of my time, but I pop in to answer POP Forums questions daily. I was playing with the book section, which I use to buy books from Amazon (so I get a kick-back) when I got an error because the Amazon Web service didn't respond for whatever reason.