Bob On Development

I could no longer put off some work on an ASP.NET 1.1 application so I fired up Visual Studio 2003 and immediately got the “specified web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1″ error. This, despite the fact that ASP.NET 1.1 was set in IIS as the framework version for that app.
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How do you find the time to drink from the fire hose that is the Latest and Greatest in the .NET world?

It’s an interesting challenge to juggle multiple source control systems in Visual Studio.

The other day I decided to finally bite the bullet and clean up the Page From Hell on a client’s web site. It’s a page that sees a lot of content churn, and I had been asked to insert a video feed near the bottom that would span two columns. But this [...]

Here’s a great post by Tim Heur showing a few nifty PowerShell basics. I’ve taken my own advice and purchased the authoritative PowerShell Book, Windows PowerShell in Action which I will be reading in my “spare time” …

I’ve discussed more than once in this space the fact that you’ll never reduce software development to some kind of mechanical exercise. I’ve even gone so far as to question software gods like Charles Simonyi, who seeks to systemetize software specification to the point that producing actual software becomes a push-button operation.
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Once in awhile, for entertainment, I visit online freelance software development exchanges. It’s a fascinating study of the endless human capacity for witless self-deception.

If you need to do non-trivial scripting under Windows 2003 Server or Windows XP, you should probably take the time to install and learn Windows PowerShell 1.0.

I’ve tried Microsoft OneNote, and have looked at some open source options, but for me at least EverNote strikes the sweet spot.