Great JavaScript Meetup In San Francsico Last Night!
Thursday 30 April 2009 @ 10:48 am
  My guess is 75 people showed up at Douglas Crockford kicked it off with a discussion on upcoming security models around new versions of JavaScript followed by several other presentations that included a Google engineer showing cool Google Labs projects, several JavaScript frameworks and other very cool things.  Dolores Labs is down a [...]

Speaking Wednesday May 20th, 6:30PM, Microsoft Office San Francisco on ExtJS and ASP.NET Membership!
Monday 20 April 2009 @ 9:59 pm
  Come hear about how to see Microsoft Office at a meeting of ExtJS JavaScript Interface When:  Wednesday, 5/20/2009 at 6:30 PM Where:  Microsoft Office, 835 Market Street, Suite 700, San Francisco Event Description In this session, we will demonstrate building a super rich JavaScript interface [...]

Load Balancing IIS Web Farm with EC2
Monday 20 April 2009 @ 9:08 pm
  We’ve been looking to find the best Sql Server 2008 as it’s database. We have lots of wants (like Service Broker, Replication, etc.) but primarily we want the web tier to scale easily.  After doing research and testing, we got frustrated with our options at http://serktools.com/2009/04/20/load-balancing-iis-web-farm-on-amazon-ec2/ Good luck and feel free to [...]

How To Set Which Folders Get Synchronized With Outlook 2007 and IMAP
Saturday 18 April 2009 @ 2:37 pm
  If you are using an IMAP client and you want to set certain folders to be synchronized when you are offline, you need to simply do the following while you are running outlook. First, Press Ctrl-Alt-S (you’ll get the screen below) Then, Press the Edit button (second from [...]
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Come See Me at VSLive in Las Vegas, June 9th (2 Sessions)
Friday 17 April 2009 @ 5:27 pm
  I’m doing two sessions at Peter Kellner Intermediate Need a web application that has the responsiveness and interactivity of a forms app but still looks and feels like a web? One of the best kept secrets (at least to the Microsoft community) is ExtJS. It’s a different paradigm then we [...]

Come to Portland Code Camp and see me Present ExtJS with ASP.NET Membership (May 30th)
Friday 17 April 2009 @ 5:18 pm
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Just Noticed some Great Tutorials by the Author of Learning ExtJS
Friday 17 April 2009 @ 9:03 am
  Over the past week, I met lots of people I know from the Release Candidate 1 for ExtJS 3.0 is now out, very awesome new features) (Steve Blades at ExtJS Conference in Orlando)   (The rest of the folks in Orlando at the [...]
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Day 0 of the ExtJS Conference in Orlando Florida
Monday 13 April 2009 @ 9:20 pm
 
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Using Method.Invoke to avoid a lengthy Case Statement in C# (Using Reflection)
Thursday 9 April 2009 @ 3:02 pm
  So, I asked the following question in at
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First Blood Using the New Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Saturday 4 April 2009 @ 9:57 am
  At http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/523/web-platform-installer-walkthrough/ ) Step 2:  Click Install now  (Can’t find PHP, starting searching the web now)  {Note: 4/14/2009. Turns out I missed an easy step.  See bottom of article for that step} Found this link:  php on the web server choice, but I do see WordPress so I chose to install [...]
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Not Using Session in ASP.NET means Session Affinity/Sticky Sessions Not Necessary in Web Farms!
Friday 3 April 2009 @ 9:51 pm
  So, I’ve always incorrectly thought that somehow, the cookie stored in Stefan Schackow, a Microsoft employee who is an expert on all things secure around

A Great Telerik Training Coming Up in Capitola, CA 4/13-4/15
Friday 3 April 2009 @ 9:41 pm
  Telerik’s best partners.  I hope you can make it! For more information, check out the link here: