How I Paid $200 a Night for Internet Access (and Loved It)
I arrived in London this morning and made my way to the suburb of Maidenhead, where I’m working this week. I’m staying at a beautiful little hotel called Fredrick’s. There’s […]
Boys and Their Toys
I’m off to London in a few hours to spend a week over there. (I’m trying desperately to match John Robbins’ air miles this year, but he’s setting the bar awfully […]
Splashdown!
This weekend our club held its twice-annual float fly, and today we witnessed a spectacular crash which I happened to get a snapshot of just as the plane hit the […]
Coming Soon: ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Toolkit
I’m currently working on an extremely cool project for the ASP.NET team: building an ASP.NET 2.0 provider toolkit. The provider architecture is one of ASP.NET 2.0’s most important new features, […]
More on Migrating from B1 to B2
I forgot to mention one of the most obvious changes in ASP.NET 2.0 beta 2: the fact that the “special” directory names changed. The Code directory is now named App_Code, […]
“Poo” Code
Devscovery got off to a rollicking start today with Jeffrey Richter coining a new term for suboptimal code. Jeffrey compared the performance of for loops, foreach loops, and Whidbey’s new ForEach […]
Beta 1 to Beta 2
I spent a good deal of time last week updating all my ASP.NET 2.0 beta 1 code samples for beta 2. A LOT of stuff changed, so I compiled the […]
Devscovery Bound
I’m off to the airport in a few minutes for Washington, D.C. and Devscovery. I’ve enjoyed having most of the last two weeks at home, although I did make 1-day […]
F-16 Crash Video
I came across this picture of an F-16 coming out of a split-S at an airshow. The pic was taken just before the jet crashed (the pilot performed the maneuver […]