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I've been travelling some, and I have a few more trips at Microsoft WebCamps before I take a much needed break and stop travelling until 2011. I went to Munich, Cairo, and Egypt a few weeks back and presented on ASP.NET MVC (both Beginner and Advanced), .NET 4 in general, Making Your Blog Suck Less, and Information Overload. I presented at Mix ...

This last week over a 7 day period, I went to Munich, Cairo and Dubai. I presented in three keynotes and did a total of 10 sessions. I crossed 12 time zones and missed my kids. I talked to/with/at about 3000 people. I'm utterly shattered. I took some video while I was travelling with my Creative Vado HD and slapped it into Windows Live ...

I noticed a post over at a blog called "The other side of the moon" where the author suggests that we put pictures and details of missing children on on 404 pages. It's a simple and brilliant idea. Millions of 404s are delivered every day. We are reporting on missing pages, but not on missing children. He includes a simple PHP solution. ...

In October of 2008 I took an informal survey on Twitter. I wanted to get an idea of what features of the .NET Framework people were using. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101%. That said, the results feel intuitively right to me, personally. I put the poll out again last week, ...

First, let me start this post by thanking Tatham Oddie. He helped my buddy John Batdorf and I debug our issue remotely from Australia. He's patient, kind, opinionated and Tatham's got a darn fine blog that you should subscribe to now. I also found great inspiration from Stephen Naughton's excellent blog. He's continually pushing ASP.NET and ...

Who loves you? Not only is Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 now available for everyone to download (not just subscribers) but I've got 11 short video interviews with the ASP.NET 4 team up on Channel 9. I was up in Redmond just last week and made sure to stop by the offices of as many ASP.NET developers and program managers as I could. I chatted with a ...

My one-hundred-and-eighty-forth podcast is up. Scott's in Seattle this week and catches Microsoft Program Manager (and one of 1000 Scott's) Scott Hunter who shares insights in the history and future of ASP.NET 4. What's coming in VS2010? Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have ...

My ASP.NET v4 New Features overview presentation that I delivered at Sydney Deep .Net User Group (http://sdnug.org ) is available for download here (http://sdnug.org/presentations/200910.zip). Note: If the above link returns a 404 error, please try here instead. It covers almost every single new feature that will be covered in ASP.NET v4 in the ...

In this blog post I’m going to show you how you can use the new Converter feature during data binding, to make this post more special I have used the new Microsoft AJAX CDN (Content Delivery Network), so I don’t need to have the AJAX 4.0 script on my server. The example code I use in this post, will use the ASP.NET AJAX DataView and also Microsoft ...

All of the talks at this year's Norwegian Developer's Conference were recorded, which is always a treat. I did four talks as well as a live .NET Rocks show. It was a crazy week. I also recorded a half-dozen great podcasts. Three are already live on Hanselminutes and I've got more in the hopper coming soon. The HaaHa Show - Hacking with ...