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Google has love for mobililty!
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
So last night I decided to see if i could find some articles giving data on task vs. place performance relative to workplace mobility. Or basically i wanted to see if there was any research done showing if a user or employee is more productive in a certain place or if location is a moot point. I searched the string “mobile work scenarios + task vs place” Below is the screenshot of what I saw:
Maybe it’s just me, but I like seeing a link for MSDN Guidelines for Mobile Development. I think Google is inadvertently showing us that they support the movement to a ubiquitous computing platform even if we are still yet to see the “Google UMPC”. Or possibly they are putting a bit more into the Android than we thought?
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You know what really grinds my gears?
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
ASP.NET AJAX and IE7!
So i’m a Microsoft Student partner. i work at a microsoft gold partner software consulting firm. i’m coding in Microsoft .NET, testing out ASP.NET AJAX code….. but i’m not an IE7 user. I use Firefox. It was testing in IE7 by default from Visual Studio 2005. For an hour it wasn’t running right. By “right” i mean stuff just was not loading where it should as determined by design view. I put the test address in Firefox and everything looked just fine and dandy.
After a bit of googling on a hunch, Javascript was turned off. So I had to be all ninja-ish and remember how to get the file, edit, tools, panels back up (F10 for those who are wondering). Then I manage to find my way through the labryinth of options to the Javascript option which I found out is disabled by default!
By enabling Javascript the page worked like a charm. That whole process to find that one little issue, that really grinds my gears!
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Go to CodeMash!
Monday, December 4th, 2006
Ok, this is the first cool conference (that isn’t MSFT technology only!) that I’ve seen come to a state around the Great Lakes region in some time! I got an email from Josh Holmes this morning telling me to check out CodeMash.
Here’s what their website says the event is all about:
“CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Held January 18-19, 2007 at the lush Kalahari resort (http://www.kalahariresort.com/) in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to attend a world-class technical conference amid Ohio’s largest indoor waterpark. So nobody will frown if you show up in shorts, sandals, and your loudest t-shirt. You might even win a prize for doing so.”
Ok, I’ll say i NEED to go. Boasting sessions like building Windows Vista Widgets, Intro to AJAX, Being a Productive Programmer, and more I need to go! The conference will have great presenters including Drew Robbins, Greg Huber, Bill Wagner, Josh Holmes and more!
Now I whine a bit and say yes, this is on January 18th and 19th. First problem I will have classes. The second semester will be kicking off about a week prior so the semester will just be getting started. Oh and I’m in college so even though they have a great early-bird rate of $99 for the conference, i’ll need to be getting a hotel too. I don’t currently see a student pricing package. But i’ll see what I can do. This is looking like a great conference that i NEED to be at.
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Where have the days gone?
Monday, September 11th, 2006
So it’s been about a week since my last post. Normally I would assume not much has gone by. Well I’d usually say that because school has started up again so I’ve got to get back into the grind of it. However despite having a full schedule of such fun classes as Accounting, and Writing in The Workplace, as well as a few others I have managed to work on a few extracurricular activites.
Last week I wrote a form application in C# that will simultaneously search all the US cities listed on the Craigslist frontpage for a given search term and criteria. That’s proved to be quite a useful application. I spent this past weekend doing a bit of freelance wordpress web design thanks to a few Craigslist posting I came across. I think maybe I should brush up the resume to reflect the wordpress stuff I’ve been getting myself into?
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