Jeff Makes Software
The software musings of Jeff Putz
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Community development and getting questions answered
Josh Ledgard made a brilliant post where he took inventory of the issues surrounding the Microsoft community. I'm glad to see this because I think we're at a critical point in the .NET world where we're hitting critical mass and we need more qualified people to work. People get qualified by working in community, in my opinion. Josh's observations need to be looked at, so that we don't end up with another “look at me” Channel9 thing (days later, I'm still not impressed, but they also had a save the world hype to live up to).
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The coding models in Whidbey
I'm loving all of the discussion about how we “should” write code in our ASP.NET apps in v2.0. I guess the shocker is that a ton of people are open to the inline code and partial class/code-beside model (Andy Smith got me thinking about this).
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Reboots suck
When is Microsoft going to figure out how to roll-out patches that don't require reboots? It's hard to pitch the reliability of Win 2k3 Server when you have to reboot every couple of months. It gives the Linux nuts a reason to kick sand in your face too. Granted, it pulls my sites off the air for all of two minutes, but that's two minutes too long.
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Back off Liz... let the consumers decide on Gmail
A California senator (will I ever be able to see that name without thinking “cal-ee-fown-ia” again?) wants to legislate blockage against Google to prevent them from launching Gmail.
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System.Web.Mail in v2: Ditching CDO?
I haven't had a reason to use it yet, so I have to ask... Is System.Web.Mail actual .NET code in v2 of the framework or will it still be a wrapper around CDO?
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Writing the book
Got the contract to a place I'm happy with it, and it's time to get beyond the three chapters I have so far and write an ASP.NET book! I'm looking forward to the entire process.
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No more Leo on TechTV
Leo Laporte, of TechTV fame, said last Friday in his blog that he no longer works there. That's a real bummer. Sounds like the former owners (they were just bought by Comcast) tried to hold his earned shares hostage if he didn't agree to a better contract.
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Tampons, Google and privacy
So I'm reading all of this stuff on ABCnews.com (from AP) about how Google will be “reading” e-mail to serve ads and that it's bad, immoral and will lead to the spread of Ebola or something. Wow do people need to get a grip.
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Fanboys, a better Microsoft and Channel9 revisited
I got exactly what I expected when I called Channel9 stupid. Heck, it even got Scoble to notice. So now that someone is listening, let me go deeper. (Also... a shout to G. Andrew Duthie for mistakingly identifying him a 'Softie. My bad! For some reason I thought you were part of the team, but then I get a lot of people confused because a lot of authors, ASPInsiders and such have pretty good access to what's going on.)
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Why Channel 9 is stupid
Yeah, that's right, I'm not going to fit in with all of the “me too” crowd. Channel 9 is stupid.