Console.WriteLine("Hello World");A Weblog by Sascha P. CortiTame Internet TV with Miro!- November 30, 2007 This is one of the hottest applications I have downloaded in a while - Miro. Think of iTunes RSS reader for Internet TV. It offers a wonderful channel guide, allows subscribing to feeds, plays most any video formats, does bit-torrent if the internet-video-site offers it, and most importantly, manages the lifetime of your downloaded videos. By default, watched videos expire after five days after which they get deleted automatically. You can tell Miro to automatically download newall videos..http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/permalink.aspx/04f11d3d-8d1c-4c6b-bd85-43d614c64040 ASP.NET MVC is coming- November 30, 2007 Metablogging. Call me a "fanboy" but these two articles by Scott Guthrie on the coming ASP.NET Model-View-Controller are too good not to mention... ASP.NET MVC Overview and ASP.NET MVC Framework drilldown 1 (this is more of a whitepaper than a blog post. Amazing.)http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/permalink.aspx/c92af9c6-809f-4d87-bc61-4d22c3c8c1b8 Scott Guthrie's great Update for ASP.NET Developers- November 30, 2007 Metablogging: Scott Guthrie posted a very informative article on the upcoming changes to the Microsoft world of web apps and RIAs here. It outlines the soon-to-release source-code for the .NET framework libraries, enabling developers to debug into the .NET framework source, hosted on a Microsoft server the announcement of "ASP.NET 3.5 extensions", an advance to the current "ASP.NET futures CTP" The planned Silverlight 2.0 roadmap, replacing and greatly enhancing the current Silverlight 1.1...http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/permalink.aspx/2bcf536e-1fcf-436d-be41-55e27f17d5be SQL Server 2008 - Working with Geographical Data- November 6, 2007 I just learned that in SQL Server 2008, you will be able to work with geographical- and geometrical data as well as integrate with the Virtual Earth SDK. So it will be very simple to write a query that for example finds points of interest stored in a database that are within a certain range of a route - expressed as a multiline object and visualize the result in real-time on Virtual Earth.http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/permalink.aspx/b41df840-f14f-49e4-b697-81c20e3b7ea2 Welcome to World of TechEd Craft!- November 5, 2007 Hehe, arriving at TechEd Developers EMEA in Barcelona, I walked by the delegates laptop work area and I see WoW everywhere. Everybody is doing their daily quests. Then, in the keynote, a demo is shown of a project that takes Visual Studio 2008 Shell and creates an integrated IDE experience for LUAAdd-on writers for World of Warcraft. Amazing. Some other, interesting topics announced include the availability of Visual Studio 2008 already in November this year and todays availability of...http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/permalink.aspx/6d7f3da1-7781-43d5-8aea-9fad93c11a84 |