March 2009 - Blog Watch

Lauren wins. Lauren’s a PC who got just what she wanted this week with her new $699 HP Pavilion, but the way she stirred the geek masses makes her Everyman’s Top Link of the Week. I read through several lengthy comment threads, most of which were dominated by the same tired Mac-vs-PC arguments over mouse buttons, viruses and pre-loaded software. Yet it was a momentous happening as writers opined on a new Red-State-Blue-State alignment, the “Apple Tax,” and the dawn of new recessionary marketing sensibilities...

It’s here, first time in the OC - http://digitalla.net/oc_red.htm Send me a message and I’ll give you the ‘get-in-free-at-the-door’ code. See ya’ there! Read More...

Maybe these new FREE Hands on Labs will help.  Let me know if they do.  Also my colleague, Mithun Dhar, has been blogging about IE8 for developers . MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Web Slices with Internet Explorer 8 Developer http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9655888 MSDN Virtual Lab: Preparing for Internet Explorer 8- Application Compatibility Developer http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9655889 MSDN Virtual Lab: Using Accelerators and Web Slices in the Enterprise with Internet Explorer 8 Developer...

Working hard is the new red white and blue. A reaffirming article from Scott H. Young titled “Execution is more important than planning” where he reminds us that success often comes down to how hard we’re willing to work to achieve our goals. “J.D. Roth, the founder of the wildly successful blog Get Rich Slowly , worked on his website at full-time levels for two years, building to its success. He did this while having another job to pay the bills.” That reminded me of how novelist Scott Turow spent...

[Repost from Dave Burke’s blog] I took advantage of being between client projects this week to move Sueetie to a v.Next demarcation point where I could write some new code.  How Sueetie updates work is that I build something and put it online at http://sueetie.org .  Then I do the Sueetie Wiki documentation, update Gummy Bear, then create the DIFFs and package them along with the new Sueetie source code to CodePlex. Then I’m done. The most recent Sueetie update was User Avatars, but to...

I spent so much time describing the new Sueetie.Core framework elements created to support User Avatars that I forgot to document avatars. Today’s Sueetie Patterns and Origins Wiki document: Sueetie User Avatars. ___________________ This page explains how Avatars are created in Sueetie as well as how they are (or are not) integrated with the member applications of Sueetie. Sueetie User Avatars – Patterns Because Sueetie is a tightly member-centric, loosely application-coupled Online Community framework...

[Repost from Dave Burke's Blog] Below is the final of our three new Sueetie Wiki docs for today. Patterns and Origins: The Sueetie Data Provider Model. ____________________   The data provider model is common throughout the applications that comprise Sueetie. Here we'll cover the Sueetie Framework's particular flavor of that provider model. Sueetie Data Provider - Patterns Each of the applications in Sueetie uses a Data Provider, and in most cases several providers to support multiple...

[Repost from Dave Burke's Blog] Below is the first of three new Sueetie Wiki documents describing the contents of the Sueetie.Core class library.  The first for you is Patterns and Origins: SueetieContext. ____________________ The SueetieContext class enhances the HttpContext.Current object to access application objects like CurrentSueetieUser. SueetieContext - Patterns SueetieContext is an extension of the HttpContext.Current object handling the current HTTP Request. Below is an screenshot...

The second of three new Sueetie Wiki Document for today follows.  Patterns and Origins: SueetieCache Class. ____________________ The SueetieCache class contains enhancements to HttpContext server caching, making it easier to use caching to optimize Sueetie performance. SueetieCache - Patterns The SueetieCache Class is a helper function to make working with the HttpContext.Current.Cache object more efficient. A sample use of caching would be in obtaining a User object, where SueetieCache is checked...

Great blog post from fellow evangelist Chris Koenig – enjoy it here ! Read More...

The world mourns Natasha. The entire world is mourning Natasha Richardson tonight. Maybe it seems like the entire world because in Twitter everyone is emoting at the same time. I opened the “Natasha Richardson” Twitter Trend while on the Nordic Track today, went to another tab, and within 1 minute there were 638 updates. Another stunning loss this week (who received far fewer tweets) was Ron Silver, best known to me as Bruno, the savvy political consultant on the West Wing. Age 62 of cancer. If you...

Below is the first in a series of “Patterns and Origins” documents on Sueetie.Core now available on the Sueetie Wiki. As a reminder, “Patterns” focuses on the source code while “Origins” describes the code’s Open Source points of origin, or otherwise the thinking that went into the code’s creation. Tonight’s Patterns and Origins Installment: The SueetieConfiguration Class __________________ SueetieConfiguration.cs is one of the classes located in Sueetie.Core Business folder. It enables us to share...

[Repost from Dave Burke’s Blog.] Below is the newest page in the Sueetie Wiki documenting the Sueetie.Core Class Library.  As a reminder, the Sueetie.Core source will be available on Codeplex when I complete the docs and apply the updates to Gummy Bear.   Probably a week or so out on that.  Will let you know when that's available, at which point we'll be moving right along to the next cool thing. ___________________ As its name suggests, the Sueetie.Core Class Library contains...