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Are you a digital pack rat?
With the recent acquisition of my new Mac Pro, I knew it was time to face the music and clean-up years of accumulated digital files. I have procrastinated the task for years, and now I fear further delay could lead to tragedy, with old, loud hard drives just daring me to let them guard my data until their platters spin no more. It is time to stare my digital pack rat behavior in the face and do some house cleaning. -
The definitive UI component metaphor
One thing you learn quickly when you leave a Fortune 200, well recognized Enterprise and join a smaller, much more exciting software company is that it is a lot harder to answer the inevitable "what do you do?" question. That is no more true than during the holidays, when you're visiting with distant relatives, many of whom still think of AOL as the Internet and think software is written by geeks in basements. Plagued by this problem, I have constantly sought the "perfect" metaphor for "what I do" so that anyone can understand software UI components. And at last I have the answer. -
Developer's Journal: It can happen to you
I am generally one of those people that hear people complain about a bad experience with a product and disregard it as one person's bad luck. When people lecture "it could happen to you", I think "Yeah right. I guess it could happen to me. But it never will." You can call me an optimistic skeptic. And for most of my life (thankfully) my skepticism has won out. My iPhone activated fine, my computers never get viruses, and I've never even seen a tornado in Texas. All that started to change this weekend, though, when I met face-to-face one problem I thought would never happen to me: the RRoD. -
Welcome to the Code Campground
Howdy! And welcome to the Code Campground. Many of you may already be readers of my Telerik focused blog, TelerikWatch.com, and if so, extra thanks and welcome to you. For everyone else, my name is Todd Anglin and I'm a Telerik Technical Evangelist and very active member of the .NET community. I have been a passionate ASP developer for years (back to the days of classic ASP) and a huge proponent of .NET since its introduction. I am honored to have been given the opportunity to blog on the official ASP.NET blogs and I am committed to making this a valuable feed to add to your readers.