Kicking tires, sniffing hydrants- February 22, 2005 As many of you know, I'm often looking around at how "others" write their code. As such, this site is a candy store. OpenSourceCMS gathers together a large number of CMS-ish apps (classic CMS, Wikis, Blogs, Forums and more) into one testable site. The server gets rebuilt every two hours, but in that time, you can try out a number of apps, including such fan favourites as phpBB, WordPress, php-Nuke and many others. Neat to explore to see what you feel works, and doesn't work in an app. Then...http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/02/21/377845.aspx Learn ASP.NET 2.0 with Jeff Prosise- February 15, 2005 Wintellect has some of the smartest .NET people on the planet these days, and Jeff Prosise is definitely one of them. Thomas (yes, the Spider King) has sent me a set of training videos featuring Jeff Prosise, showing you the ins and outs (and betweens) of many of the new ASP.NET 2.0 features. Check them out on this page (110KB and 300KB streams only right now, I'm working on getting 500KB downloads for those who'd rather watch them that way).http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/02/14/372762.aspx Torremolinos!- February 5, 2005 I didn't mention it a while back, but I recently changed Site Managers (from Christina to Chris -- we're not that imaginative when it comes to names around MSDN). Now, Chris brings our first communal effort to bear (OK, he did it all, but I'll share some of the credit) Presenting -- our new ToC. We've tried to organize things, especially the technical articles in a more task-oriented way. Gone is the "Using-Understanding-Building-Web Applications" that used to irk me. Now, I hope it's...http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/02/04/367621.aspx |