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Monthly Archives: April 2005

VISUAL STUDIO 2005 B2 IS HERE

Though I’m sure this is not the first post on the subject, the VS 2005 Developer Center has launched the go-live licenses for Visual Studio 2005 B2. MSDN Subscribers can download the full version of Visual Studio 2005. For those who may not have an MSDN subscription, Beta 2 versions of all the VS 2005 Express Editions are also available for download.

Having been involved in some work with VS 2005 since the pre-Beta 1 days, I for one am excited about the new features. My focus has been mainly on the ASP.NET side so some of the most intriguing and interesting features for me have been Master Pages, Web Parts and some of the fancy new pre-built controls for the 2005 edition.

Now that Beta 2 has shipped there’s only one more hurdle to go: RTM Launch!

To all those who have worked on this release of Visual Studio, Keep up the outstanding work!

EPIC 2014 – The reign of Googlezon

This presentation was put together by a couple of university students at Georgia Tech. It tells an orwellian tale about the demise of what we would call “modern media”. The clip is narrated and runs 8 minutes. It packs a lot of thinking into those 8 short minutes.

This project has caused me to do a lot of thinking since I saw it. It is based partly in reality, and partly in conjecture. The presentation shows us a world that could be, some say it is the world that will be.

The first link below contains a written version with some added details that aren’t in the flash movie. The second link is the flash movie itself. This was originally published several months ago, so it may be old news for some of you, but this is something that really made me think, and its worth another look.

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/11/29/summary_of_the_world_googlezon.htm

http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/

“In feeble protest to Googlezon’s hegemony, the Times has become a print-only newsletter for the elderly…” go figure…

Security vs. Functionality

I’ve been trying to decide whether or not to implement some “security” measures in Chromium Blog Project. The three that are causing me the most grief in terms of a decision are:

  • Allowing HTML in Posts
  • Allowing Anonymous comments/responses
  • Putting some sort of image in to restrict automated account creation & logins

Right now, I’m coming down on the side of putting in place an HTML editing tool like FCKEditor for the Post/Comment editor. This would allow full formatting, and I could strip out

script tags and the like… If anyone has any thoughts on the Security v. Functionality debate, I’d love to hear them…

…back to the vortex…

Chromium Plan Posted

The initial plan for Chromium has been posted on the SourceForge page. It’s pretty high-level at this point, but it lays out what I plan to do, and what components I want to implement in the initial releases. I’ve included the basics of that post here, but the SourceForge post has more detail, and also outlines what I would like to include in future releases.

The SF.net page for the project is located at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crblog/

FEATURES (initial versions)

  • Easy Install
  • Easy DB Configuration
  • Web-Based admin console
  • Comments for Blog Posts
  • Multiple Blogs on one installation (a la .Text)
  • Use of .NET master pages as templates/skins (easy for anyone to make more!)
  • Basic BBCode tags (Bold/Italic/Underline)
  • Source Engine Safe (SES) URLs to all Blog posts

Comments are welcome!

Yet another developer’s Blog

Well here it is, yet another blog by yet another .NET developer.  I’m not quite sure what to do with this opening post.  I’m working on a blog project of my own.  It’s being hosted on SourceForge, and I hope to post more details of that project soon.

Enjoy the Blog!