Last night, I gave a 90 minute presentation on how to use ExtJS with ASP.NET serving up the data at the Bay.Net locally lead by Kim Greenlee for sponsoring the event, Thanks to ExtJS for giving a free developer license.

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  Last week, we had our 5th Meetup of the

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  For the past couple years, I’ve had the Android G1.  they come with a 30 day return policy so I figured I could see if I would fall in love with it.  After all, it’s made by HTC who makes great phones, has a full keyboard, a nice form factor, 3G, wifi, GPS, [...]

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  At tonight’s meet up, we will be having several short presentations on the new features in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa478947.aspx My plan is to do a progression where I start with a trivial GridPanel, then work myself in 5 steps to a full working membership editor that looks like this:   [...]

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In this article, it is shown how important it can be to use the CompileQuery class when using LINQ to SQL. Doing a simple query in LINQ to SQL verses ADO.NET is shown to run 37 times slower without taking advantage of the Compile feature in LINQ to SQL. If you are doing the same query over and over in LINQ to SQL, this is a no brainer. I’m surprised I did not know this myself previously.

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  Programmatically setting ExtJS project that requires me to show some details on a page that I want to show with

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