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Part 2 of 2 on SubSonic
I see that my second (and for now at least final) article on SubSonic is up on DotNetSlackers. Hopefully someone will find it useful and informative. This one is intended to be more practical than the overview I did last time. It builds out some of the functions of a blog engine using SubSonic queries and controls.
Thanks again to Sonu, Karl and the rest of the DNS team.
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Victoria Code Camp retrospective
[modified] Almost forgot. Here are the slides if you want to see them.
We're back from Victoria, where I did another version of my "A quick look at SubSonic" talk (it was a shorter version of the talk I gave in Winnipeg). What did I learn?
People don't stay all day at a Code Camp. During the kickoff, there looked to be around 100 people in attendance. There were all of 8 or so people in my talk (and a big 'Thank you!' to all of you), and the other two speakers (I would have gladly been in...
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10 goto 20: 20 goto 10
I know I'm just a caveman, but at the moment this world confuses me.
M forgot her Hotmail password. So, I decide to go through the wizard to help her get it back. They will kindly mail out a new password. To her Hotmail account. Who came up with that one?
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Bearable lightness of bandwidth
I decided to work off-site on Friday -- partly (I admit) to get away from the usual distractions at work (Miss Simon, and the three cats), but also to get off a network for the day.
The network gives me a "convenient" distraction most days: waiting for a Web project to start up? Check a few blogs. Need to grab a few graphics? Well, I'll just go to this Web site.... Ooo, shiny, I should look at this article. Finish a task? Well, I'll just check the Auction House to see how things are selling. Etc, etc. Just disconnecting for a...
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Misc links: reading and (losing) lunch
WikiSource seems to be another great source for "old tyme" reading (along with Project Gutenberg, of course). I was looking around the intarwebs for some Lovecraft works, and they seem to have pretty much everything he wrote (including his will, it seems). Dang, now I'll never get anything done...
And now, after filling your eyes with wonder, I'll empty your stomach. My mind quakes with the terrible knowledge there is such a product as this. I fear I may go mad...
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Review: The Canon
I just finished The Canon last night, and ... whoa. Great book.
The premise of The Canon is simple: most people have very limited knowledge or interest in science. That frightens and saddens me (and the author, Natalie Angier). To solve it, she has written a book to provide the basics of science and scientific thought. It's not anything that you wouldn't get from a decent high school or college education in the sciences, but many people don't have even that. However, her explanations are phenomenal -- she helped me understand a few concepts that I never did get throughout university....
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Victoria Code Camp coming
Nolan (et al) has created a blog for information on the upcoming Victoria CodeCamp. Head on over there to read the writing on the wall, and hopefully I'll see you there (I'm taking the train down to the big city for the event)