Patrick Steele's .NET Blog

CodeMash v2.0.0.8 is almost here.  I plan on spending tomorrow tweaking my slides and sample code (I'm doing "An Introduction to MonoRail" in the Friday vendor session -- Room D).  I've only got 30 minutes and I'd like to include time for questions so if you're really interested in MonoRail, don't forget to check out Jay Wren's "Introducing Castle".  He'll be discussing the entire Castle Project (of which MonoRail is just one part) in more detail.

I was helping a client out with a problem yesterday.  They had a spot in their web application where an Ajax request was made and the browser would hang.  They could not do anything in the browser until the request had completed -- despite the fact that it was an asynchronous request.

I had a problem this past holiday weekend with a small website I was working on.  I was doing some Forms Authentication (custom Forms Authentication in Monorail) and couldn't get part of the code to work unless my website was the "root" website (i.e. http://localhost).  Currently, the project is sitting in a virtual directory (http://localhost/virt1).

What a great way to start the new year.  Tuesday morning (well, afternoon really) I checked my email and saw the following subject:

SRT (the company I work for) is making the news!  First off, we were awarded a "FastTrack" 2007 award by the Ann Arbor Business Review.  Dianne posted details about this.

This Saturday's Day of .NET is quite the hot item.  In fact, it's so hot, we've hit our maximum of 250 attendees (we have to place a cap somewhere since we're providing a free lunch and a t-shirt).  We currently are not accepting any new registrations, which is kind of a bummer.  So I need your help.

I meant to blog about this earlier but have been so busy (especially this time of year -- I'm one of those wierdos that likes to dress up the front yard for Halloween).

After our open house, a few of SRT's consultants stayed to have a little Coding Sprint with Castle -- specifically, ActiveRecord.