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Another California social network goes down.
I received this email from Pownce , another social network, microblogger engine: “We are sad to announce that P ownce is shutting down on December 15, 2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new pro accounts. To help with your...
Posted: Dec 02 2008, 11:42 PM by albert | with 1 comment(s)
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Links of the Month. November 2008.
In my absence many things has happened in the blog world, that I need to catch up. Those post were interesting enough for me to want to share them with you. ASP.NET Scott Gu "released" the new "free" charting control for ASP.NET Very...
My first article on ASP.NET Pro thanks to INETA.
On the December issue of the ASP.NET Pro magazine you’ll find my article about maps I wrote for them, a great tutorial to report your data in a geographic matter. I really hope that will help many people start using that kind of analysis and reporting...
Posted: Nov 09 2008, 07:41 PM by albert | with no comments
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Moving Community Server to the Cloud
Next pet project is to move my blog on Community Server to the Cloud. I spend too long making sure my database size does not go over 500 MB, the size limit on my hoster. So once every 3 months I have to do some clean up of the database: DELETE FROM cs_statistics_Site...
GeoTwitter.NET Editor for GeoRSS updated
Finally this weekend I updated the Editor on the GeoTwitter as promised on the previous post . The GeoTwitter Editor is a GeoRSS creator on the web. Allows users to share geographic information fast and easy. You can find the source code for GeoTwitter...
Creating a SharePoint Web Part Step by Step
This is the first time I develop for SharePoint, something that I wanted for a while, yet never got a project to do so. I have been a SharePoint user for many years, normally because all companies I have worked they use it as their document repository...
Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session without changing your code using a Session provider.
Scott Hanselman had a post last week to zip your Session state. a great idea I thought to be able to save memory on the computer. Yet I didn’t want to change all my source code to use another class to do so, a nightmare to track all the Sessions in every...
Using GeoTwitter to track the fires in LA
Every year before Halloween, the fires begin here in Southern California. Tonight I was using GeoTwitter GeoRSS Editor to track the fire to share it with my family and friends. The steps to create your georss feed is pretty simple, add as many lines,...
Being a software engineer in a bad economy
My friends and family are a little worried about “these bad economy”, many articles are coming out or even books about how to deal with a recession. One good book that just came out is; Bulletproof your job , the message is clear, be visible, easy and...
Scott Guthrie will be on the PDC keynotes would he be at the PDC Underground?
Gu will be at the PCD talking about Silverlight 2 and jQuery . I’m guessing that a few news will come out on that presentation. Mr Guthrie likes to release the news. I would be missing the PDC this year. $2000 is an expense that I can’t find a justification...
Limitations in Flex 3 and Silverlight 2
Lately I find myself playing with both technologies in the same day. Normally I have open by default Flex Builder 3 and Visual Studio 2008 . Great if you thinking to slow down your computer. Both technologies have become pretty popular to enriched the...
Going to the California Central Coast Code Camp September 27th
The second Central Coast Code Camp will be held September 27th and 28th, 2008, at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo, CA. Register for free here I’ll be presenting Saturday 27th at 3:45 pm follow by a Geek Dinner. On Sunday I won’t miss Woody Pewitt...
I am in the Tech-Ed Blogger highlight
This is great news for me.I personally love seen my ugly face on the Tech-Ed main page, that reminds me the day I declined the offer to get my picture professionally done. http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/teched...
Posted: Sep 22 2008, 08:36 PM by albert | with no comments
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Factorial computation in ASP.NET
Zichuan Ye, a coworker wrote for fun a factorial calculator. It does both, multiplication and factorials providing a postback and callback implementation in ASP.NET and VB.NET. A great tool to download and learn from it. He was kind enough to provide...
Posted: Sep 17 2008, 11:10 PM by albert | with no comments
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Cross domain request in Silverlight 2.0 beta 2
So you started using Silverlight and you wanted to download a RSS feed, talk to a web service or download a few images from a website to realize that many of the requests you made come back to you empty or you get the 404 error. How do I get the error...
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