The ASPSmith's BlogSome rants about ASP.NET by Steven SmithTouchgraph GoogleBrowser- October 31, 2003 Check out this cool tool to map out where your website is in the Internet space, according to Google. TouchGraph GoogleBrowserhttp://weblogs.asp.net/ssmith/archive/2003/10/30/34798.aspx PDC 2003: Caching Birds of a Feather : Summary of Tips- October 30, 2003 I hosted a Birds of a Feather Tuesday night at PDC 2003 and we had about 25 or 30 people attend, including Rob Howard of the ASP.NET team (responsible for the caching featureset). I've published a summary of the tips along with some resource links we discussed at the meeting on AspAlliance.com: Caching Tips from PDC 2003http://weblogs.asp.net/ssmith/archive/2003/10/30/34768.aspx PDC ASP.NET Panel Discussion - Non-Postback Callbacks to Pages- October 30, 2003 A new feature in Whidbey will allow controls to make calls directly back to page methods without making full postbacks. This features uses XMLHTTP behind the scenes and allows controls to talk to the server in an optimized fashion without requiring a full postback. In the 1.x timeframe, a solution for this which you can use today (and which actually may be simpler to implement based on what I've seen), is remote scripting. Remote scripting was available in ASP 3.x but wasn't...http://weblogs.asp.net/ssmith/archive/2003/10/30/34761.aspx ASP.NET Whidbey Discussion Lists Launched- October 29, 2003 AspAdvice.com now has about a dozen lists set up for the discussion of ASP.NET Whidbey. If you've got the PDC bits, this is a great place to look for help if you get stuck with something. Many of the members of these lists will be folks who have had access to the bits for some time and of course Microsoft employees themselves. You'll find the full list of signups here: AspAdvice Whidbey Lists (http:aspadvice.comcategory.aspxc=30)http://weblogs.asp.net/ssmith/archive/2003/10/29/34425.aspx Tuesday at PDC- October 28, 2003 Managed to get to some sessions today, including the morning's keynote, which was lucky since I was out pretty late with a bunch of Codewise community members and Microsofties. The keynote was pretty cool, and included an excellent demo by Scott Guthrie as well as a fun demo of mobile control support by Batman. I spent most of the middle of the day in the expo hall talking to various vendors about what they're doing in the .NET space and how ASPAlliance and AspAdvice can help them...http://weblogs.asp.net/ssmith/archive/2003/10/28/34292.aspx |