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What is best, redux
OK, now that a few of you (OK, probably everyone that reads this) have stepped into the parlour, a followup question. As a more practical question, which of these articles on GridView would you say is the best?GridView (in online help)The GridView control (in Quickstarts)Move Over DataGrid, There's a New Grid in Town!GridView Examples for ASP.NET 2.0
(OK, technically not one article, but foo)Using the New GridView Control in ASP.NET 2.0In-Depth look at the GridView ControlIntroducing the GridView ControlSomething else entirely?All of the above
I guess that technically #1 should be the "desert island" choice. However, like my choice of...
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What is 'best'?
How would you define 'best' for a piece of technical content? Is the 'best' piece on the GridView an introductory article that looked briefly at all the features? An in-depth piece on one or more features? The one that answered your question? How would you pick the top 'n' articles for each feature of ASP.NET? (or even, for ASP.NET itself?)
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I'm sorry, but...
I must post on this.
The joke has always been that Canadians apologize too much. However, I think it's just contrast to those near us. Still, a new bill will make BC (the province I live in) even more apologetic.
(However, this post does not incriminate me in any way)
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Cool Ajax app
Yes, I know, I never thought I'd be writing this either, but I've finally used a non-trivial Ajax app, and I liked it. (Well, it might not be *really* Ajax, let's just call it a nice DHTML app, shall we?) I had to fill out my US tax return for the last time (I think), and I used Intuit's TurboTax Online. It actually worked out quite well -- felt like I was just using a slow desktop app. I guess that's what Ajax is like ;)
Oh, and as it is tax season, allow me to share Rick Mercer's sentiments. (MSFW -...
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My 2 cents on REST
I enjoy it.
Oh, wait, *that* REST. Well, I have no rights to dare to comment on what either Don or Dare have to say. So, here goes.
REST, like that other acroynym that has become trendy right about now is more attitude than architecture. I babbled for about 30 pages to create a chapter in a book I'm trying to drag myself through about it. Sure the samples I created were probably uber lame, but I'd like to think I stepped a bit into that mindset. I went in opinion from "huhn?" to "OK, I can see how this could work...
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He's finally blogging
Neat -- Karl's finally blogging. Good start (b*tching about documentation is always a good start). Karl wrote one of my favourite pieces (I will admit that I had more than a few favourite pieces) while I was still with MSDN, and shares a mislike for DataSet driven dev. Keep it up, at least better than I have been lately.
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Gigglicious language comparison
As yet another entry in the "which language is best" meme, I provide this quote-ful diatribe by an ex-Amazonian.
"C++ is the dumbest language on earth, in the very real sense of being the least sentient."
"Java is simultaneously the best and the worst thing that has happened to computing in the past 10 years."
"There are "better" languages than Perl — hell, there are lots of them, if you define "better" as "not being insane"."
"If languages are bicycles, then Awk is a pink kiddie bike with a white basket and streamers coming off the handlebars, Perl is a beach cruiser (remember how...
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on10
Congrats to Duncan, Erik, Adam, Jeff et al for the launch of On10, their latest site. Looks great, seems to be running great, might even make me like Ajax.
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'How to become an expert' and Viral Whorosity
http://haacked.com/archive/2006/03/06/BeyondChannel9.aspxGreat slide from Mark Pilgrim's ETech Presentation:
How to Become an Expert:
Write code
Make mistakes
Get yelled at
Fix your code
Write about what you learned in step 4
I've been intentionally silent (including one stealth public-ish thing I do daily) on Microsoft's latest forays into viral marketing. Personally, I saw too many episodes of it internally ("Hey - we're launching this great new site, could you blog about it?") to really care, or search around to find out what Origami is/was/will be. Still, I recognize it as a valuable tool to market a product, and despite the bad taste people have for marketing, advertising and...