Almost a year ago I noticed that two of my favorite coding bloggers, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, were founding a company together with the amusing name Stack Overflow. Their aim was to create a site with useful information for fellow coders, generated by user content.
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One of the new features in EPiServer R2 version is the relocation of system folders. In previous versions they were stored in the same folder as the other site related files, but now they seem to be installed in Program Files by the new Installation Manager. I fail to see the benefits of this.
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JavaScript has gone from hot to dinosaur to hot again. The revival of latter days is mostly due to the Ajax technique, but another important factor is the emergence of competent, lightweight framework libraries.
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Many people know the classic Easter eggs where Excel97 was turned into a flight simulator and Word97 into a pinball game. But that was ten years ago and surely the modern versions can do much more?
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It has only been seven months since the last roadshow but the MSDN Live team is on the road again. Just as last time, a lot was said about ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight and rich clients.
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You may be familiar with the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern. Scott Guthrie recently held a presentation at the ALT.NET Conference in Austin.
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ASP.NET has been taking a lot of hard words since its inception. Most of the complaints are well deserved, but there are some ways to make things slightly better.
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Today it was revealed that Microsoft will release the sourcecode to parts of the .NET Framework. It will likely occur during the shipment of VS2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
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The very popular content management system EPiServer is about to get a major upgrade to version 5. The first release candidate version was released during spring and I’ve been working a lot with the RC3 version during the summer.
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The gates of Microsoft continue to pour new applications into the world. One of the most awaited is the next version of Visual Studio, previously code named Orcas.
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