Saturday, January 2, 2010

ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe

ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe


ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 01:05 PM PST

[ In addition to blogging, I'm also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Hope you all had a great holiday – welcome to 2010! Last month I did a blog post about some of the presentations I did in Europe...( read more )...(read more)

ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 01:05 PM PST

[ In addition to blogging, I'm also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Hope you all had a great holiday – welcome to 2010! Last month I did a blog post about some of the presentations I did in Europe and posted the slides+demo files from them.  High-quality videos of the talks I did in Sweden were posted two weeks ago on the Channel9 site, so you can also now watch videos of the talks online as well.  The videos use a nice format where you can watch me talking as well as the screen at the same time.  The code is readable when running in full-screen mode. Below are links to the different talks along with the slides+sample files: ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Web Development This...(read more)

Death to confirmation dialogs with jquery.undoable

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 10:09 PM PST

Confirmation dialogs were designed by masochists intent on making users of the web miserable. At least that's how I feel when I run into too many of them. And yes, if you take a look at Subtext, you can see I'm a perpetrator. Well no longer! I was managing my Netflix queue recently when I accidentally added a movie I did not intend to add (click on the image for a larger view). Naturally, I clicked on the blue "x" to remove it from the queue and saw this. Notice that there's no confirmation dialog that I'm most likely to ignore questioning my intent requiring me to take yet one more action to remove the movie. No, the movie is removed immediately from my queue just as I requested. I love it when software does what I tell it to do and doesn't...(read more)

Microsoft Silverlight MVP += 1

Posted: 01 Jan 2010 07:11 PM PST

The very first email of the year in my inbox is still a sweet one, announcing that I've got re-awarded Silverlight MVP by Microsoft. This is the 4th year in a row and I am still very honored and excited! In 2009 I had the pleasure to be involved in many...( read more )...(read more)

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