Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX version 1.0 Beta Released Friday, October 20, 2006 The first public Beta release of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 (code-named “Atlas”) is now available for download. ASP.NET AJAX is a free framework for creating client-centric, interactive Web applications that work across many popular browsers and on any server platform. This Beta release is a preview of the fully-supported version of ASP.NET AJAX scheduled for release by the end of this year. Get the new bits and check out the new docs at www.asp.net ! Read More... Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...(read more)

It's frank. It's honest. It's scary. And, above all, it's likely to be more accurate than most technical communication managers are willing to admit. Read:

Lot's of others have already posted on this and I'm late to the party, so I'll be a pointer for those of you who may not have seen the hundreds of blog posts or news articles :) It has been a long journey working with the IE team and getting this amazing browser into the hands of customers. It is just a first step and there is so much more we will be doing. For developers, Pete LePage on my team is driving a ton of new content, improved developer center, some fun contests and more - I'll keep you posted. Links to read more details: IE Blog Pete LePage's Blog Somasegar's Blog I've been a bad blog delinquent and lot's of stuff in my queue, hoping to get better over the next few weeks, expect a bunch of fun and I plan to be more diligent! Thanks...(read more)

The IBM Home page (in the US) is featuring blogging, and even highlighting Notes/Domino.

Flash version , ?HTML version , PDF version



Two of my favourite parts of the article are:

"blogs are a fact of life today and a leading source of information and entertainment for an increasing number of people -- as well as an opportunity to collaborate and share ideas."

"on October 11, IBM announced new productivity features in its most recent release of Lotus Notes and Domino that allow users to design, create and update blog entries. Even offline or while traveling, bloggers can update their blog using Lotus Notes and then transfer their updates the next time they connect to the network."

My friend and colleague Ed Brill is featured in the article.

So what are you waiting for? ?You can use IBM's Domino Blog template, or OpenNTFs BlogSphere, and start blogging today!

A week and a half ago, we finally got moved up to Atlanta. Thank goodness that's over. Moving sucks, but I sure am glad we did it.

Still lots of boxes (my office isn't nearly as clean as Devin's), but we're getting there.

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Version 1.7 of VTD-XML, the next generation XML parser that goes beyond DOM and SAX, is released under GPL. VTD-XML is getting faster, leaner, more

Dear theserverside community,

Stylus Studio was reviewed in CRN Magazine. You can read the article entitled "Create Powerful XML Solutions

Have you ever wanted to create a sub-list inside a list? (shown below on left) Mix list types? (shown below on right) ?You can! ?This is not limited to just two levels deep you can create as many sub-levels as you would like.


When you create your main list, press Enter on your keyboard to go to the next line, and then indent (F8, or ) the following line. ? This separates the sub-list from the main list. ?You can change the list type of this indented list to whatever you would like.

The animation below demonstrates the steps.

Earlier today CTP6 of the Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals was made available for free download. VS for Database Professionals has been getting rave reviews, and includes support for database refactorings, schema and data comparisons, database unit testing, and automated data generation. You can learn more about it on its MSDN dev-center and Community page. You can also watch a nice Channel9 video with the team here. Two other data management tools that I've seen posted on http://weblogs.asp.net recently that look very cool and areworth spending timeto check out include: MassDataHandler - A free CodePlex project that provides a utility library to help automate data generation for unit testing (it can be used within any unit...(read more)

?Lotus® Notes® Developer’s Toolbox: Tips for Rapid and Successful Deployment, by Mark Elliott

Lotus® Notes® Developer’s Toolbox will help you streamline and improve every phase of Notes development. Leading IBM Lotus Notes developer Mark Elliott systematically identifies solutions for the key challenges Notes developers face, offering powerful advice drawn from his extensive enterprise experience. This book presents best practices and step-by-step case studies for building the five most common types of Notes applications: collaboration, calendar, workflow, reference library, and Web site.

This book is for Notes developers at all levels of experience, using recent versions from V5.0 through V7.0, and beyond. Like all IBM developerWorks® Series books, it is fully integrated with comprehensive Web resources, including working examples of each project, enhanced versions that go beyond the book, sample graphics, and tools for addressing real-world business scenarios.

Coverage includes:

• Getting started with Domino Designer®, and using the design elements it provides
• Developing Notes databases, step-by-step: considerations, code instructions, design tips, and project plans
• Mastering and customizing Lotus Formula and LotusScript
• Customizing forms, views, agent behavior, application interfaces, and more
• Building calendar applications with simple and complex recurrent events
• Developing applications that distribute information via email, response documents, and other methods
• Creating reference library applications, and generating Excel® spreadsheets for analysis
• Constructing sophisticated workflow and Web-based Notes applications
• Securing, deploying, and maintaining Notes applications, and managing their data
• Enhancing database functionality: more than 95 ready-to-use code modules and customizations
• Exclusive Web resources available only to book registrants

When multiple employees are using a Lotus Notes agent, it can be difficult to gather debugging information. This agent from SearchDomino.com member Dennis Lowe assigns each user session a random ID to simplify analysis of your Lotus Notes agent log database when errors occur.

A few months ago I had the opportunity to review Elements of C# Style and I really enjoyed it. It is a concise little book, great for a quick reference on everything for C# syntax basics to designing an inheritance hierarchy. Last week I ran into Andy Grey (one of the authors) and he gave me a copy.. I just love the form factor… small, 150 pages… easy to drop into your laptop bag! Enjoy! Read More... Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...(read more)

Steve has a great post (with Video and slides) for building offline apps… Worth a look! My guess is lots of client apps need "occasionally connected" features, it has just been prohibitively hard to build in the past… Has anyone tried this out? We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts. Read More... Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...(read more)

Last week, a new set of videos comparing Visual Studio 2005 with Macromedia Dreamweaver8 became available. You can view these videoshere. This series shows how you can use Visual Studio 2005 to build and deploy web sites more effortlessly than Dreamweaver8. The free Visual Web Developer Express features most of the functionality outlined in these videos. In case you haven't tried out the Express edition yet, go tothe download site and get your copy today. It's only a 40MB download and comes with its own development web server, so you don't need IIS to create and debug your site. Check it out! Read More... Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...(read more)

Lotus Notes 7.0.2 introduced a new feature with enables users to carry their Lotus Notes experience with them on a USB memory device. ?(Nomad was the unoffical name that has been adopted around this feature, hence the title of this entry)

Here is a 4 minute video interview that aired on the New England Cable News where this new featured is discussed.



Jeff Eisen did a great job in the interview, and IBM developer Jeff Mitchell and his teammates did a great job in implementing this new feature. ? Congratulations to everyone involved.

If you want to read more about this feature, Ed Brill has a complied a list of articles written by other bloggers including : Paul Rigby, Chris Miller, Chris Whisonant (extensive), Jack Dausman, Susan Bulloch, Colin Williams and more Colin Williams , DominoPoint.IT, Chris Linfoot, Declan Lynch , ?Declan Lynch, Matt Holthe , and growing...

For a fun, addictive peek inside the global photo-blogging phenomenon, you’ll want to check out The Daily F’log, a new blog launching this week from the folks at Fotolog. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Vertus today announced the launch of its live free daily training for its pioneering Photoshop plug-in Fluid Mask. (posted by Jennifer Apple)