Found lots of interesting stuff this week, just no chance to post it until now... so here you go:
The Beantowndotnet user group meeting was on Thursday (as Sam mentions we went on without him ;)) The talk was Advanced Control Development in ASP.Net by Steve Seymour (founder of ThoughtShapes). I think the content was fantastic. Steve walked us through the http application pipeline lifecycle and then on to server controls lifecycle. The detail made my head spin and again reminded me of how much I love ASP.net and need to get back to working with it (one of my top 5 .Net books to date is Developing Micorosoft ASP.Net Server Controls and Components). Kevin (Hegg) and I spoke a little about the .Net patterns study group that we (Robert and I) have been talking about the past month or two. We discussed maybe a slightly different study group, maybe a little like Bill Evjen's Code Brew groups. (Which Aaron Junod is looking in to doing in the CT area). Anyways there will be more to come on that topic later this month and next month....
Brad Abrams and Steve Maine both pointed to this: Northeastern University has implemented a Scheme compiler that emits MSIL, check it out!
The topic of how to handle parameters and versioning of web services is being discussed in several places. Brendan Tompkins, Dare Obasanjo, Don Smith
Darrell Norton points to Robert Boque's article Unserstanding the Differing Goals of Software Development. I could have used that article about a year ago when I was weight the differences between an IT shop vs a software development shop. Good article for programmers to look at if they are thinking of some career planning or changes.
Dino Esposito discusses some interesting DHTML Behavior and ASP.Net controls stuff (I love that stuff!). He also points to IconLover, which looks to be a great icon editor.
DonXml has a better XmlTextReader example than the MSDN example
Ever here of MSCONFIG? (via Jim Blizzard
Matt Hawley was at the Heartland Developers Conference. I'm currently waiting for Sam and Robert to post their overviews of the week. I would have loved to hear Sam talk about VB.Net with Rocky, I bet that was entertaining as well as educational;)
Michael Giagnocavo has another interesting entry - Replacing a strong name. Kinda makes you think...
Page Brooks is working on optical number recognition using perceptrons, inspired by Casey Chesnut. Casey is going to be the guest lecture in a couple of weeks in my class, have to ask him how his geek dinner on Dec 7 went ;)
Reminder to self - Creating localized msi files under Wix toolset and wxl files to download Wix
Stan Lippman - The Type of a String Literal revisited ...
Tim Anderson - Why C++ makes faster .Net apps
Found some other stuff that I have marked for review for my Think and Motivate week in January. Scoble's mention of BillG's reading list for his think week, Tom Peters - Survival Skills 2005 and 100 Ways to Succeed #32