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Tuesday, April 16, 2002

ASP.NET: Setting custom properties of User Controls

8:40:19 PM

Tim Berners-Lee speaks at Stanford tonight about the Semantic Web. BTW, I think I finally got the vision. It goes like this. There's data in this blog post. It relates at least three things. 1. Tim Berners-Lee. 2. Stanford. 3. Semantic Web. 1 will be at 2. Link to Semantic Web from the arc between them. Link to www.stanford.edu from 2. With this information properly stored in a relation, you could query it. Now, I gotta figure out why this is different from Google, which probably already does a pretty good job of extracting all that meaning from this post. [Scripting News] Dave - if your reading this - I recommend a good book on the Semantic Web
5:02:16 PM

Need a vacation? How's about a restored mill in France for about $600/wk . Hmmm - geek vacations in Normandie..... hmmm it worked for the Geek Cruises. Maybe this could work as well?
4:40:38 PM

I'm so flattered. According to Userland this blog had 45 page hits today. It actually made it into the daily rankings. Perhaps I don't have a life????
4:28:59 PM

Russian coffee cake, Java, .NET and almost forgotten actors - this truly is Los Angeles

I had lunch with Dan today. He is presently very involved with Java. Not bad for a former MS Program Manager! On the way back from lunch I stopped at my favorite Russian bakery and picked up some goodies. Whenever I want to complain about LA smog and traffic I think of this wonderful 40 year old place. There are some advantages to living here. Ahead of me in line I recognized Lawrence Hilton Jacobs. We had met during a movie shoot some time ago, but I was pretty sure he wouldn't remember. Met him along with Dan Haggerty (aka Grizzly Adams) . Haggerty looks a bit more like this picture when last I saw him. Hollwood can be rough on a guy. Anyway, I digress. My buddy Dan posed one very interesting question. He stipulated that one reason why Java became so successful is because it wasn't built on the crappy Windows API. So as I was showing him some ASP.NET work I had done he pointed out that the mere fact that you could do a "switch" statement with a string expression points to someone at MS building extra stuff into the NET framework that - he fears - will in the end have similar results as COM had with the Win API. The added functionality that comes from having lots of aspects pre-built in the framework will mostly appeal to smaller IT shops. Enterprise size organizations would rather manager their own code than have to wait for MS to fix one of the screwups that invariably show up in all this "added extra functionality". Unfortunately I don't nearly have the necessary information to agree or refute this point. He did admit that it sure looked like a lot of fun to work in .NET. So there you have it. Life in Los Angeles..... russian coffee cake, good friends, celebrity sightings and a healthy sense of language paranoia - all in a day's work.

2:47:08 PM

Berlin: No Comment
10:10:09 AM

eWeek: Apache 2.o beats IIS at its own game
10:04:29 AM

Akamai, Akamai, Akamai. A subtle political statement. They're deploying .NET services. Oh. OK. Now can we call them with Radio? Can we emulate them with Radio? Why hop in the bathtub with Microsoft? Don't you like your air supply? Why not implement Web services so everyone gets the message that it's for them too, even if they don't use Microsoft software? Hmmmm. The other day I suggested that those of us who don't use any MS software should fly their colors (I'm not one of those people, btw). Now another related idea. Perhaps we should target for annihilation any developer who promotes their open services as being Microsoft-compliant. Just to prove that in this layer of technology, there is no such thing. See how Google's across-the-board interop changed things? Now any idiot who says they're MS-compliant actually looks like an idiot. [Scripting News]
9:08:56 AM

Jeff Prosise talks about ASP.NET. Nice overview for newbies.
9:06:57 AM

George Shepherd (another one of the Developmentor Gang) : Microsoft has done a great job making sure ASP.NET is extensible. One of the easiest ways to add pre- and post-processing to each request is by chaining an HttpModule into your application. In fact, ASP.NET implements such features as forms authentication and output caching through the HttpModule mechanism. They're easy to write�just create a class derived from IHttpModule, write event handlers for the events you want to intercept, and create an entry into your web.config file to let ASP.NET know about the HttpModule. In future columns I'll explore some of ASP.NET's features, such as output caching and forms authentication, which have been implemented through HTTP modules.

9:00:29 AM

Kevin McFarlane: .NET Event Handling using the Template Method Design Pattern (thanks to Sam Gentile for pointing this out)
8:56:56 AM

NY Times: Tax treaties with Luxembourg and Barbados allow companies to turn profits generated in the US into non-taxed money that can be used anywhere in the world. I thought I would mention this, since yesterday was 4-15 and most of us ponied up the $$$. I wish I could better crystallize the thought that occurred to me as I read this article. The relationship between consumer behavior in the US being manipulated via mass media, corps sheltering their income offshore and public schools completely going to hell is what came to mind. Have you ever heard the saying : " We have seen the enemy and he is us " . So as long as we happily pile on the debt via credit cards and shop till we drop that's how long this cycle will continue. And usually I'm the first at the mall on weekends, so I'm mainly talking about myself here. By the way, I can recommend former Labor Secretary Robert Reich's book " The Future of Success" as a very readable explanation why we seem to have more debt, less time and more stress on our hands these days. Really! Go check it out, you'd like it.
8:29:26 AM