By jbonnie on
Sunday, January 21, 2007 6:14:51 AM
It is hard to believe that it's time for another code camp, March 31st and April 1 2007 in Waltham, MA.
I can''t wait to see what Chris Bowen has in store for us, Deer in Headlights is an appropriate theme with all of the new bits available.
See you there!
http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/01/17/save-the-dates-code-camp-7-deer-in-headlights.aspx
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By jbonnie on
Monday, November 27, 2006 6:26:35 AM
A friend asked about creating a website that he could use to build a community around an area that he has a passion for. Sounded like a perfect for Community Server! I decided to try out aspnix.com to see how hosting is there. Even though I heard from Dave Burke that they lost the wizard, one of aspnix's key support guys.
Well the site went up pretty easily, I did need to raise a help desk ticket to get the permissions set for the aspnet worker procees. So, www.pfpnetwork.org is born.
I decided to also launch a new site using DNN 4.3.6, www.intelligentsystemdesign.com, is now live also. This site was a bit more problematic. Apparently, DNN 4.3.6 was not packaged properly. There are some medium trust problems that require some changes to the web.config file. These changes were...
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By jbonnie on
Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:29:53 PM
Code Camp III in NJ on Nov 18th Registration is Open, as announced by Scott W
I was going to give a talk on Virtual Earth, but I have been actively engaged in the job search, so there has been little time. Plus MS launched Version 4 of VE this week, so the talk would be dated.
Things are looking good with the job search and I my be doing the regular commute again soon. Thank god for Dotnetrocks and other podcasts!
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By jbonnie on
Friday, November 03, 2006 11:40:12 PM
Lida and I just got back from the Subdudes concert, and it was amazing.
They played two great sets (set list attached!), and 3 encores Sugar Pie, Why Can't I Forget About You, and Social Club
They played in Fairfield CT at the Fairfield Theatre Club, ticket stub below also. This is a small venue with about 300 people or so. We were in the first two seats next to Steve and Jimmy Messa.
The first set really started cooking after Brightest Light, and then Poverty and Sarita. John had the crowd singing (or humming, or woaing) along with him, very cool, and then ended with "all the time in world".
The second set was highlighted with Rain and Known being sung from the audience. I don't know how they did it unplugged, but the crowd got a dose of them close up - it was amazing.
The dancing broke out and crowd was really into it, Tommy was trying some jokes and was in a great mood as usual.
I wish that I could go to VT, or Philli....
Don't forget to check out the podcasts!...
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By jbonnie on
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:37:25 AM
Downloaded VISTA RC2 (build 5744) the other day and loaded it onto a shuttle pc with an AMD 4000 and 1 gig of ram.
It took almost 2 hours to load.
My network card was not recognized, so I installed a USB wireless stick. Windows could not get it loaded, so I used the CD that came with it and I was able to get online.
I wanted to do some screen prints and show vista, but I could get paint.net installed. The install kept bombing, satying that the installer could not be run, halfway through the install. I tried both paint.net 2.72 and the alpha 3.0.
The interaction with all of the default security boxes and messages takes a bit to get used to, or to be turned off!! One strange message was when a dialog said that windows would help diagnose the problem. After spinning its wheels, it said that it would keep looking and tell me if it found something! I'll check my mail later...
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By jbonnie on
Friday, October 20, 2006 4:09:31 AM
Since I have a number of sites that I support using Dotnetnuke, I thought it was a good idea to try out IE7 on them now that it is officially released to the masses.
The install took about 15 minutes with the usual reboot included. I fired up the IE7 via the updated icon on the task bar (a bit of an ugly grey if you ask me) and I was taken to a site that asked that I confirm my settings.
Well, I tried to scroll and click a few things, but the system was a bit sluggish, so I checked out task manager and you guessed, IE was spinning at 100% CPU. Anyone for IE7 SP1...
So, I skipped the saving settings step as I assumed the MS site was swamped with other users installing as well. I guess MS should have bought a few more machines for this!
IE 7 looks nice with the tab interface, but the antiphishing icon looks like it is slowing site downloads down, I am sure it is the site that is slow, but I am sure MS will get flack for this.
I look forward to the serious reviews of IE7 and Firefox...
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By jbonnie on
Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:59:38 AM
I am way more out of shape then I thought. It has been one month of going to the gym every other day and I thought I was there. But, I Just did a warm up run for "Nerds on the Run", since I do not want to get overly embarrassed trying to do a short jog between speakers at this weeks code camp in Boston.
I may need oxygen....
It was a great day for a run down at cove Island - next time I'll bring the camera!
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By jbonnie on
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:16:30 AM
My brother lives in France and suggested that I get Skype connected to avoid long distance calls.
I decided to try out a USB Skype device that would allow me to use my existing house phones and not be tied to the computer. For a few extra dollars I got an upgraded version that does call forwarding to my cell phone.
Now this is cool!! My brother calls me from France on Skype, if I am not home to answer the call, it is call forwarded to my cell phone!
This is pretty cool technology and I am happy that I did not buy a dedicated Skype phone.
p.s. Only problem is that my brother wants to call for technical support for his Computer! Oh well, nothing is perfect...
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By jbonnie on
Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:18:45 AM
Code Camp 3 has been announced for New Jersey.The date is November 18th, 2006.Here is link to Scott W's post announcing the event and to see when registration information is available.I submitted an abstract to do a talk on Virtual Earth. It is similar to a code camp 1 Presentation that I did, but this will be much better, with some good code examples.Here is the Sesssion Abstract:The Virtual Earth 3.1 Javascript API has been out for a while and is driving Microsoft sites like http://local.live.com/This code walk through will show the Javascript API's and how Virtual Earth functionality can be deployed on your sites.It will show how you can integrate your location data into your own sites. Free resources for Geocoding your existing address data will be demonstrated as well.You will walk away from this session with the code to deploy Virtual Earth Maps into your ASP.NET applications....
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By jbonnie on
Saturday, October 07, 2006 1:35:06 PM
Launched a new website for Christopher's Kitchens, a custom cabinet store in West Babylon, New York.
The site uses the Solaro Crystal Skin. This was done by an excellent skin designer with a great portfolio.
The site makes heavy use of the gallery module. This may need some optimization as one large gallery takes a while to display.
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