Kindle Session at Cloud Expo
Barnes and Noble just recently unveiled their upcoming eReader, the Nook.
On the blog of my non-techy alter-ego I've posted a comparison of the two
readers that is entirely based on my own personal feelings of what is cool
and what isn't, so take it as opinion and certainly not as a technical
review.
So far I've remained relatively aloof from the whole "eBook" craze.
Ordinarily, given my geeky background and borderline insane craving for
technology, one would think that I'd be all over these things. The problem
is, my love for the written word also extends to a love for the experience of
reading a book.
Click here to check out the blog post.
Call me crazy, but I love the smudged thumbs I get from a 3-hour reading
session where the real world ceased to exist and it was just me and my
alternate reality, lovingly prepared for me by my fav... (more)
Azure Cloud on Ulitzer
If you've been working with Azure for a while then you've probably spent some
time using the StorageClient sample that came with previous versions of the
SDK. With the November 2009 release of the SDK (the one they'll be using at
PDC 2009), they have wrapped that sample up into the SDK and refactored it to
fit more in line with the conventions and quality standards of a Microsoft
API. As a result, some of your code will break (but not much). Queue storage
and Blob storage (discussed in upcoming posts) actually have more breaking
changes than table storage.... (more)
I was recently working on a project where I had five or six different pages,
each of which was going to have a full CRUD-enabled jqGrid complete with form
editing, date pickers, fields that show up in the form and not on the grid,
etc. The problem is after I got finished doing the first one I realized that
there was a truckload of really redundant jqGrid code that I didn't want to
have to re-type over and over again. Worse, the code is really fragile and if
you misplace a comma, bracket, brace, or paren - the debugging of it will
give you migraines.
So this is when I decided to ... (more)
If you're like me, you've probably been spending every waking moment you have
eating, living, and breathing the iPhone SDK. Since March 6th, that's pretty
much all I can think about once I get home. So, what do you do if you want to
learn how to write iPhone apps, but you want to become a pro at iPhone SDK
programming? Its one thing to read the SDK, page-by-page until your eyes
bleed (what I do for fun), but most people like to hang out with other
developers, get hands on, do labs, see demos, and generally get their hands
dirty.
Lucky for us, there is such an iPhone boot camp co... (more)
Recently I installed the Beta 2 version of "Geneva", or ADFS 2.0. All of my
machines are now Windows 7 machines, including just about all of my VHDs and
virtual machines. The only time I use Win2k8 R2 is when the product I'm
installing specifically requires me to do that. So when I installed Geneva on
my Win7 box, I thought everything would be fine.
Then I rebooted. The "Modify STS Reference..." and "Update federation
metadata" menu items that are supposed to be added to the list of available
options on an ASP.NET web application were gone. They were there before I
rebooted but ... (more)