Archive for December, 2006
Opera Mobile is 100% wholesome goodness
If you have a Windows Mobile device, please do yourself a favor and throw away the piece of junk that Pocket IE is and get a real mobile browser instead.
Here it is – Opera Mobile
I have been using it for a couple of weeks now and cannot be happier. In my before-Opera-Mobile days, I didn’t see much point in mobile browsing because the experience was pretty bad. But everything is different now with OM. Even the sites that were not designed for mobile browsing, still look great. I can read my blog and my friends’ Live Spaces as well; none of this was possible with Pocket PC IE.
On a somewhat related note – Mobile Live (http://mobile.live.com) is awesome. Mobile Live Local is my favorite.
If you have a Windows Mobile device, please get a copy of Opera Mobile and you will not regret it.
No commentsNew Year’s Resolutions
New Year is coming and it is time to make new plans. Here is the list of the things I would like to learn more about in 2007.
1. 70-528: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0—Web-Based Client Development
2. Ruby On Rails
3. ASP.NET AJAX
4. JavaScript
5. Scrum
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is out, but what is new?
Here is a really good write up of the changes in SP1 for a web developer - Visual Studio 2005 SP1 released - details about changes in “web tools” area.
No commentsVitamin - Cross Browser Vector Graphics
Here is a really good article on creating cross browser graphics with dojo.gfx.
I really like how they do charting; something like this might be quite helpful sometime.
No commentsGeneric types and Type.IsSubclassOf
Type.IsSubclassOf does not work with generic types because the generics are not inheritence.
Here is what worked for me:
genericMonkey.GetType().GetGenericTypeDefinition()
Here is more info on this topic:
No commentsMike Gunderloy and Microsoft
Well, it looks like the journey is over.
Mike Gunderloy of Larkware fame is trying to remove Microsoft and everything Microsoft related from his life.
Choosing to use Microsoft software as the basis for my work, whatever else it may do, contributes to the growth and health of Microsoft. It supplies funds for Microsoft’s continued initiatives in the area of intellectual property and DRM. And it seems to me that the ultimate consequence of these initiatives will be to limit my own freedom of action, both as a software user and a software developer.
This is taken from A Fresh Cup - Mike’s new blog that details his exploration of non-Microsoft technologies as a way to earn a living. So far it looks very intriguing and I am already subscribed to the feed. Currently Mike is evaluating Ubuntu and Ruby on Rails.
This reminds me somewhat of Softies On Rails. The guys from Softies On Rails were originally ASP.NET developers that later completely switched to Ruby On Rails and never looked back. Here is the post - Rails is (officially) life-changing. And here is some more - Why Rails? Part 1: Microsoft pisses me off, Why Rails? Part 2: All the Cool Kids Are Doing It, Why Rails? Part 3: Ruby, Why Rails? Part 4: Because It’s Free and Why Rails? Part 5: Because I Can Test It.
A Fresh Cup looks like it is going to be a great blog and I can’t wait for more posts. Good luck Mike on your journey and make sure you blog the details.
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What is wrong with Typo?
No wonder people are switching from Typo. For at least a month I have been getting the following message:
Bad Gateway
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) Server at www.typosphere.org Port 80
What the hell is going on? Is this the end of Typo? I hope they get their stuff together.
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