http://www.sashasydoruk.com Building a better mousetrap with XHTML, AJAX and RSS Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:09:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just got back from the official launch event of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. It was quite amazing to see Steve Ballmer speak. Microsoft has some great plans for the launch products, and to be fair, they do look amazing. VS 2008 is an ... http://www.sashasydoruk.com/2008/02/27/heroes-happened-here-2008-is-going-to-be-great/ Just found that out recently. I had to purchase a subscription for my wife and couldn't help but notice how nice the site looked. The workflow is very well designed and is joy to use. Opened up the source and - "say hello to my little friend" - __VIEWSTATE. ... http://www.sashasydoruk.com/2007/10/30/did-you-know-that-surveymonkeycom-is-written-in-aspnet/ http://dotnetblogengine.net - is a great starter kit from Microsoft. It is a full featured blog engine written in ASP.NET. It is very interesting to see how things are implemented. Xml based membership and role providers. Http modules for compression and url rewriting. Cool stuff. http://www.sashasydoruk.com/2007/10/30/httpdotnetblogenginenet/ Someone please defend Visual SourceSafe. This is pretty funny. I have never really liked VSS myself. There is always something better out there. Some people are afraid of the cost, but with SVN the cost is not a problem. But SVN in general is quite foreign to a Windows developer, so ... http://www.sashasydoruk.com/2007/10/28/someone-please-defend-visual-sourcesafe/ My blog is back online. The last WordPress updated somewhat destroyed my installation and it took me a while to make things right. Anyways, I am back now. Stay tuned for more info. http://www.sashasydoruk.com/2007/10/25/guess-who-is-back/ I really want to like Silverlight, but it is really hard to do. The idea is great, but if you look at v1.0 it is... meh... Tafiti, Popfly and Halo3 banner at microsoft.com are supposed to look nice, but the animation is so jerky, it makes me cry. It looks like ... http://www.sashasydoruk.com/2007/09/27/silverlight-i-really-wanted-to-like-you-but/ Reflector LLBLGen http://www.sashasydoruk.com/2007/08/23/new-reflector-and-llblgen-are-out/ Scott Hanselman - Sharpen the Saw for Developers I, especially, like the part about creating a technical library at work and reserving some work time to read the books. I am a self-taught developer and without buying new books I wouldn't get to where I am now. I think it is ... http://www.sashasydoruk.com/2007/08/23/scott-hanselman-sharpen-the-saw-for-developers/ Ruby On Rails Migrations WCF Resharper 3.0 Firebug Ruby On Rails Capistrano .NET DLR WPF Silverlight Warlock's Pet at Level 20 Murloc Suite http://www.sashasydoruk.com/2007/08/22/things-that-are-awesome/ I have been a proud user of .NET framework for 6 years now and I still think it is a really awesome product and Microsoft did a wonderful job developing it. WinForms is the best way to develop Windows application (with occasional jump into Interop for extra APIs); ASP.NET ... http://www.sashasydoruk.com/2007/08/19/where-are-all-the-cool-startups-that-run-on-aspnet/