Posts in category ”Development”
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Farewell to the guys from Rolla
Do you remember a decade-old site called 4 Guys From Rolla? I used to visit it a lot in the early days of ASP.NET.
Father of fractals
The mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot died today of pancreatic cancer at the age of 85. Most people probably have no idea who he was.
One year with Stack Overflow
Almost a year ago, I noticed that two of my favorite coding bloggers, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, had joined forces to create something with the wonderfully nerdy name Stack Overflow.
Obama inauguration in PhotoSynth
45 years ago, a man named Martin Luther King stood in front of the Lincoln memorial and spoke to 250 000 people. His voice carried the words “I have a dream” across the National Mall.
Relocated VPP folders in EPiServer R2
One of the new features in EPiServer R2 version is the relocation of the system folders. In previous versions they lived alongside the rest of the site files, where you could find them, understand them and occasionally swear at them. With the new Installation Manager, they’ve been moved into Program Files.
ASP.NET and standards compliance
ASP.NET has always been taking a lot of hard words from web standards advocates. Many of the complaints are well deserved, but there are some ways to make things slightly better.
Microsoft reveals .NET code
Today Microsoft announced that they will release the source code for parts of the .NET Framework, probably around the arrival of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
MIX07 in Las Vegas
The MIX07 conference is currently underway in Las Vegas, because apparently there is no better place to unveil the future of the web than a city built on neon, gambling and the firm belief that subtlety is for losers.
Creating CSS Control Adapters
ASP.NET comes with a generous collection of pre-built controls designed to make web development faster and easier. And they do. Unfortunately, some of them also produce markup with all the grace and subtlety of a drunken rhinoceros rearranging your living room.
The legacy of software
When I go to old cities such as Rome, I love to visit the ancient buildings. Some were built over two thousand years ago and still stand before my eyes. But when future historians and archaeologists will rediscover the year of 2007, it is unclear if they will find much of use.