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Show #5 of the Community Megaphone Podcast is now available! In this episode, Dane and I chat with Steve Michelotti. We discuss ASP.NET MVC 2, the software craftsmanship movement, and more. Want to keep up with all the latest episodes? You can subscribe to our RSS feed, follow the show on Twitter, or become a fan on Facebook. Enjoy the podcast? ...

ASP.NET MVC 2 is out. This means, it's released. It's final. Use it. Love it. You can download it directly, or install it (and whatever else you like) with the Web Platform Installer: ScottGu has many details in his post. There's lots of resources to check out: What's new in ASP.NET MVC Whitepaper ASP.NET MVC 2 adds a bunch ...

I often do development, testing or troubleshooting where I want to see all server variables available to a site.  For example, when using a reverse proxy for load balancing, SERVER_ADDR, HTTP_HOST and other variables can change. Whenever I run into that situation, I write out a simple script that displays all server variables.  I ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar, and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar: PGHDOTNET March Meeting - PGHDOTNET and Pgh ...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I’ll be presenting in Glasgow, Scotland on March 25th I’m doing a free 5 hour presentation in Glasgow on March 25th. I’ll be covering VS ...

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 ...

You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series, "The Weekly Source Code." You can certainly become a better programmer by writing code but I think good writers become better by reading as much as they can. I was poking around in the WebFormsMVP project's code and noticed an interesting ...

Follow along as I learn all about Windows Azure. Part 0 – Where do I go to get started? Part 1 - Setting up your development environment Part 2 - Creating a Windows Azure Hello World Application <<<< YOU ARE HERE Below are the steps to create a simple Windows Azure Hello World application.  These steps assume that you ...

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. ...

Just saw the following over at Marc Schweigert’s blog: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/webapptoolkits/ “These FREE Web App Toolkits help you complete common web development tasks and quickly add new features to your apps. Whether it’s Bing Maps integration or adding social capabilities to your site, there’s a toolkit for you. Download ...