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# Thursday, November 08, 2007
Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:41:40 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) ( .Net Web )

DevConnections - The ASP.NET MVC Framework

ASP .Net MVC != Web Forms 4.0

"One important point I kept stressing in the talk was that this is designed to be compatible with the ASP.NET subsystems you already use. That means Session, Cache, Personalization, Roles, Membership, etc, still work and are there to be used and abused. This framework, in the namespace System.Web.Mvc, is an alternate architecture, but not "an entirely new parallel ASP.NET," no more than any of the other home-grown or open source MVC/MVP frameworks that are out there"

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# Thursday, October 11, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:32:51 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) ( Pocket PC | Windows Mobile )

I bought a HTC Touch pocket PC a month back. It's quite a nice and compact phone with Windows Mobile 6. It's not a great touch phone,the WM6 interface is not touch very touch friendly. The stylus is needed most of the time.

I got the phone mostly to have an organizer, access the Internet at times and to try my hand at writing some code for the Pocket PC. The phone came with a Motorola S9 Bluetooth headset (for free !!), and now the phone is my default music player. I connect the phone through ActiveSync to my work desktop, and use  media player on the phone to play streaming music.  I can now code and walk around the office with no wires to mess about with :).

A major downside to the phone is that typing text messages requires the use of the stylus. There are rumors that HTC will release a full screen soft key board that is touch friendly. I found a soft keyboard last night, called  TouchPal . It is a nice interface but takes some getting used to. Typing with two fingers  blackberry style does not work well. One fingered typing works ok so far.

The stereo earphones that come with the phone are not great for listening to music, but fine for phone calls. On the other hand the S9 headset is great for cutting out external  noise and playing music but when on calls the audio sounds muted.

The phone does not come with Windows Live Messenger installed, but a download can be found using Google.

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# Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:52:52 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) ( .Net Web )

Going through my RSS reader today and catching up ..

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2007/05/07/iis-vs-apache.aspx

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:49:36 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) ( .Net Web )

Nikhil K has released a development framework for creating Facebook applications with ASP .Net.

http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=167

There is also this

http://www.codeplex.com/FacebookToolkit

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# Friday, July 20, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007 5:57:31 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) ( Odds & Sods )

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I'm on the ground floor, but we still had to evacuate when one of the windows burst. This section is all Macs though :)

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# Sunday, July 15, 2007
Sunday, July 15, 2007 1:12:58 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) ( .Net General )

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000771.html

"The certification alphabet is no substitute for a solid portfolio; you should be spending your time building stuff, not studying for multiple choice tests. But that doesn't mean they're worthless, either. I don't think certifications get in the way, as long as you can demonstrate an impressive body of work along with them."

I couldn't agree more. I find that there is a misconception MS certifications are software development qualifications. Many budding developers think of this as a must have and expect to get programming skills through the certification program. They fail to realize that the MCP/MCSD/MCPD certifications are product certifications rather than programming certifications.

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# Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Wednesday, July 04, 2007 4:40:48 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) ( Odds & Sods | Vista )

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# Monday, July 02, 2007
Monday, July 02, 2007 10:11:09 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) ( Secondlife )

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Inside the Intel tower at Second Fest :)

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