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Posted by on 30th June, 2005

AJAX in ASP.NET 2.0 or not?

AJAX in ASP.NET 2.0 or not?

No, not Ajax, Amsterdam football team. The other Ajax… the Asynchroneous Javascript and XML kind. A recent article by CNet hints that Microsoft is building software, code-named Atlas, that provides developers with tools designed to ease creation of AJAX-style applications. "Developers can use the Atlas software through Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 development tools and the Web development framework ASP.Net 2.0, both of which are expected to ship in November." But….then there is this comment from the folks at MSDN product feedback in reply to a suggestion of officially adding AJAX support to Whidbey/ASP.NET 2.0: "Thank you for your suggestion. AJAX is definitively gaining attention and is something that the team has given thought to. Considering where we are in the product cycle, I hope you'll understand that it wouldn't be possible to do this in Whidbey but we'll evaluate the suggestion for a future release" So, what is it? Will the AJAX support be a separate piece that somehow will still work with Visual Studio 2005 to create ASP.NET...

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Posted by on 19th June, 2005

Free Tech Books

Free Tech Books

This site lists free online computer science books and lecture notes, all of which are freely and legally available over the Internet. All the books listed on this site are available for free, as they are hosted on websites that belong to the authors or the publishers. These authors publish their books for free to give you a chance to review their books, to get as much good information distributed as possible. So, if you like what you read online, you can always support the authors by buying the paperback at your local or online bookstores. [button link=”http://www.FreeTechBooks.com” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 15th June, 2005

The Ultimate Google Guide

The Ultimate Google Guide

On occasions I have to look for a particular filetype or need to filter out search results from my searches with Google and end up probably missing what I was looking for. I may not be writing my search query specific enough. Of course I know there are some more operators besides the common ones, but didn't know exactly which. Nancy Blachman from The Google Guide has written a cheatsheet with the advanced operators to improve accuracy and speed in your searches with Google. A nice site overall with many other Google features… [button link=”http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 7th June, 2005

Aviation oops

Aviation oops

I came across this large image gallery of general transportation mishaps. Mostly military and commercial aviation. Some impressive, some very dumb…many painful. Like popcorn, I am sure you you won't be able to see just one image and won't stop till you've seen them all, but well worth. [button link=”http://www.micom.net/oops” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 3rd June, 2005

Personalized Google has competition

Personalized Google has competition

Personalized Google, a page with the same ol' search box, but with the addition of your personal selection of news stories (XML feeds). Although Microsoft is light years ahead with its implementation of my.msn.comwhich offers similar, but more complex features, it seems that they may want to go toe-to-toe with Google on this one. I don't recall exactly how, but I stumbled upon this experimental search/XML feed news aggregator by Microsoft that uses Asynchroneous Javascript to refresh, collapse, expand and move the headline around. It is the same technology used by Google in maps.google.com that has proven quite efficient and robust and the site sure does look like it will do the same as Personalized Google…search and aggregate news feeds. You can fully customize the page with your own feeds. Try it and I think you'll be impressed. Again, it is sort of in an experimental phase and I do not know what Microsoft is planning for it, but it certainly looks promising…and so does the fight that is...

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