mhinze.com archive

• Provider Toolkit
• MIX University : MIX Online
• The Model-View-Presenter Pattern in ASP.NET
  dino
• CoDe Magazine - Article: Layered Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Dependency Inversion
• Old-Versions.net
• Visual Studio 2005: Create Reusable Project And Item Templates For Your Development Team — MSDN Magazine, January 2006
• Infragistics Vs Telerik - ASP.NET Forums
• Implementing a jQuery-Calendar ASP.NET Control
• Certificates
  a technical introduction to digital certificates
• Interview of Eli from Blue Hat SEO.com : SEO Book.com
  I am an eli fanboy
• Colin's monorail screencasts
• ScottGu MVC Presentation and ScottHa Screencast from ALT.NET Conference
  the scotts put on a great show
• b# - ALT.NET Goodness
• source code for the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management, Site Navigation, Session State, Profile, Web Events, and Web Part Personalization providers
• Getting Started with the Healthvault sdk
• SQLBits - Dave McMahon’s Top Ten SQL Keywords at The Social Programmer
• Microsoft HealthVault Developer Tools

• SharePoint 2007 for .NET Developers | Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com
• Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA)
• Rails Code Review video - Confreaks: MountainWest Ruby Conference 2007
  quite interesting
• Ten CSS tricks you may not know | evolt.org
• Inconsolata
  monspace like consolas
• Flickr: altnetconf pool
• altnetconf : Alt.Net Conference Yahoo Group
• Flickr: Photos tagged with altnetconf
• altnetconf: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati

• SharePoint Environments - when developing as a team
• Fit
  Framework for Integrated Test
• BOO - Home
• ANTLR Parser Generator
• Domain-Specific Language Tools

• Firebug in IE for *any* web site
• SSMS Tools PACK
• Los Techies
• Followup: SEO Empire Part 1

Here are some other posts about the ALT.NET Conference here in Austin:

• ALT.NET Conf: Day 1
• Jeffrey Palermo on the ASP.NET MVC Framework
• Alt.Net first impressions
• ALT.NET Conference Austin - Day 1
• ALT.NET Conference - Opening Day…Opening Thoughts
• ALT.NET Day 1
• Alt.Net kicks off with "What is Alt.Net"

I have been twittercasting the conference so far.

We started with opening remarks and an introduction to the open spaces concept.

At an Open Spaces conference, the attendees set the agenda.  So that's what happened: interested people walked to the center of the room and explained their idea or topic.  Then they took a sticky note (on which they had written the idea) and placed in on a big schedule.  Votes and negotiations follow. 

A couple things stood out.  First - there are natural leaders.  It's quick and easy to identify them when they stand up and convene sessions that seem to resonate.

Also, the freedom to personally shape a large group's agenda is very powerful and empowering.  Open spaces really encourages an interesting, critical, thought provoking dynamic.

We were also treated to an example of a fishbowl discussion, during which attendees attempted to define ALT.NET.

I'll try now:  ALT.NET is, first, a set of ideas about programming.  These ideas led programmers to develop specific tools.  And now ALT.NET has grown to include educating the mainstream about these ideas and encouraging the mainstream to adopt of these tools.  But it's all a critical thinking process.  ALT.NET is never satisfied with the status quo.

Scotts Guthrie and Hanselman are here, lending their internet fame.  They are both going to show off some new Microsoft stuff that sort of gels with the ALT.NET way of thinking.

I'll post a detailed session list as soon as I see one.

• Microsoft HealthVault Developer Center
• HealthVault dev blog
• Argotic Syndication Framework - View Release
  web content syndication framework

just a reminder that i will be blogging from the ALT.NET conference starting tomorrow afternoon. and twittering then as well. subscribe to my feed for updates.

• Oracle Providers for ASP.NET
• WebRunner - MozillaWiki
• Implementing Front Controller in ASP.NET Using HTTPHandler
• WCF and JSON Services
• Easy incremental status updates for long requests | Encosia
• ASP .NET FAQ
• Download details: Sandcastle - September 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP)
• Best Practice Resources For ASP.NET
• ObjectDataSource In Depth - The Code Project - ASP.NET
• Inheritance is evil, and must be destroyed: part 1
• Main Page - MixesDB
  the collector's database of Club + Radio Mixes and Tracklistings
• wafful.org - Web Security Blog - HTML 2.0 - Browser detection [3]
  wow!
• Simple Silverlight SEO with ASP.Net and XSLT
• SEO for Ajax and Silverlight Applications
• ZIP Code Database Created from the 2000 Census Data
  sql to import from csv included
• 30 free HTML email templates
  becuase clients always, always want this
• Watermarking PDF documents using HttpHandlers
• Video: Turbocharge Your ASP.NET site with Amazon S3
• SubSonic: Migrate Me
  more rails flavoring
• Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries - ScottGu's Blog

• Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen
• Random C# Snippets
• An improvement to RegisterClientScriptBlock
• Integrating jQuery with ASP.NET
• ModalPopup with Multiple Cancel Buttons
• Html Agility Pack
  they codeplexed it!
• Coding4Fun : MultiWall - Wallpaper Tool for Multiple Monitors
• [ASP.NET] Setting the DefaultButton for a Login control
  DefaultButton="Login$LoginButton"
• SharePoint Workflow Basics, Part 1
• SharePoint AJAX Toolkit - Home
• code to implement remember password functionality
  javascript cookie reading
• Utilities.NET - Home
• patterns & practices: Repository Factory - Home
• Using jQuery for AJAX in ASP.NET
• 15 Seconds : A Step-by-Step Guide To Using MySQL with ASP.NET - Part 1

• LINQ To SQL - Lazy Loading Properties and Specifying PreFetch When Needed - Sweet Query and Performance Control
• Gravatar 201: Advanced Gravatars in ASP.NET
• Using Subversion with TortoiseSVN
• Custom ASP.NET ASPX form, InfoPath and Sharepoint Integration Programmatically - Tommy Segoro
• FriendFeed
  im a sucker for this kind of stuff
• Dave's ASP.NET SEO Friendly CMS
• Jayrock
• Getting to Workflow Information
• Killing Software Projects with Modal Verbs
  this is so important in a broader sense also
• Tip/Trick: Building a ToJSON() Extension Method using .NET 3.5
• DogstarRadio
• It's On Sirius!
  everything playing on sirius