Enjoyable Blog of Possibilities

Also see: Spring Web Flow features and feedback request I’ve been putting off writing this blog, not just because I’m on vacation in Maui and have far more tempting things to do.  It’s because one of my blogs has already been used on Slashdot as evidence that Windows cannot scale and won’t support distributed transactions [...]

The ASP.NET validators have this nice property called “SetFocusOnError” that is supposed to set the focus to the first control that failed validation. This all works great until your validator control is inside a naming container. I ran into this recently when using validators in a DetailsView. Take this simple example: Also see: Finalization <%@ [...]

Also see: Load(AssemblyName) Also see: Startup, Shutdown and related matters Also see: Microformats are like RFID tags for the Web If you’ve yet to be sold on the Internet, grab a seat and your favorite pointing device. My good man Ryan sent me a link to what is undoubtedly the Internet’s Killer App: The Beer [...]

Also see: YouTube Tries to Get Legal Wired : At least i’m  not the only one that sees arena of video game fans as an interesting thing to write about. As a side note – is it arrogant to link to your own blog? http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/74

Also see: A first stab at BaseN encoding with a focus on general alphabet encoding. Also see: A Couple of My Rules for Startups Also see: Interested in Artificial Intelligence? What about Wiki’s? Well, now you can have both. Just a note to myself to do a braindump on all this Service Broker shiznit I [...]

Also see: Quick attempt at a validating roman numeral parser… Lots of gotchas. Also see: Claimspace: Against a Well-designed Reputation System Also see: Java perfomance talk Unfortunately I’m not talking about a Wiki that actually is artificially intelligent, summarily filling itself out and saving me gobs of time by learning off of the Google-Sphere. What [...]

Also see: Merry Christmas Indeed! Also see: Life Calculus Also see: Aggregators rock! Since Doug mentioned me doing lots of GUI stuff, I thought I’d mention an interesting UI design book – About Face. It’s worth a read, although I think that Cooper goes a little bit far in saying that the “File” menu should [...]

Also see: Merry Christmas Indeed! Also see: Microformats are like RFID tags for the Web Also see: Load(AssemblyName) While doing my first ASP.NET 2.0 “publish” tonight I was presented with the following dialog box: Assuming that apps delete as few items as possible, I assumed that “existing files” meant files that matched those that were [...]

I’m going to the Rose Bowl. I am a University of Illinois alum and an avid fan of college sports.  The Illini football team had a great season this year and will play USC in Pasadena on January 1st.  In fact, this is the just the second time in my lifetime that Illinois has made [...]

Also see: AppDomains (“application domains”) I’ve uploaded a minor update to Snippet Compiler. I also put up an Add-Ins page with the following samples: Web References Folder Browser Settings ToolBar Snippet Repository http://weblogs.asp.net/jkey/archive/2006/01/29/436800.aspx