Notes from my .NET/ASP.NET reading back in September…
ildasm — command line tool for viewing manifest file contents
wincv — allows you to quickly look up information about a class or series of classes, based on a search pattern
All aspx pages are compiled to a subdirectory of the .NET framework folder, you can change the path to the compiled files by editing machine.config
compilers:
— csc for C#
— vbc for Visual Basic .NET
— jsc for JScript .NET
There’s a new Java Blueprint sample application out…
Multimodal Interaction Use Cases from the w3c.org (who have a new XHTML table-less CSS design of their own…)
mydomain.com is back up! yippee! Too bad I probably last an entire day of email.
mydomain.com is down.. and has been down for sometime (since 9am this morning), so no one but me can read this.. 🙁 Hopefully it’ll be up soon.
“Bumper Mentality ” by Stephanie Mencimer: read this article before you buy an SUV. Please. [via boingboing.net]
Do you like Creme Brulee? Wait… let me try again. Do you like fabulous desserts? If yes, you have to try Raspberry Creme Brulee.
Scoble posted a great analogy 2 days ago which was ignored amidst the religious context. He said this:
“Our brains are extraordinary pattern recognizers (think about it sometime — why can you look at a tree and instantly recognize it as a tree?). Our brains totally freak out when presented with something that has no pattern. Hey, look at the white noise on your TV sometime. You’ll start seeing patterns. You brain HATES not being able to see patterns.”
10 minutes ago I was trying to figure out why I’m so frustrated with the information architecture of the site I’m developing at work and the idea of the brain as a pattern recognizer helps makes perfect sense of that frustration. The client (in this case represented by anywhere from 1 to 8 people of a 1200 person company) has decided that they want a 3 column layout AND a 2 column layout and a single column layout… each with different navigation schemes, and with no apparent order. This frustrates me to no end, but there’s not much I can do or say to change their mind.
On the list of things I’d like to do someday: sit next to the guy or girl who writes the code for this project
From gizmodo: Kitchen cabinet computer. I so wanted to build one of these! And someone already has! But $2995? That seems a bit steep.