Loren Heiny talks about concerns about MathPractice and FractionPractice apps.
I have always been concerned about all of the shortcuts available, such as spell checking, which are valuable tools but should not be the replacement for learning skills.
Just as most of the best improve musicians actually have classical training in their background…
just my quick just-came-in-to-look-up-a-phone-#-and-snuck-in-a-quick-look-at-my-aggregator 2 cents on the topic
I loaded my current opml from SharpReader up to Dave Winer’s “Share your OPML” site and it is linked under BlogRoll here on my site. You do have to log in to that site to people’s OPMLs.
I’ve also been fiddling a bit with my site configuration and made just a few slight changes. No biggie.
Don’t be a dope like me and miss the “Templates and Macros” section on the dasBlog site for how to configure your site. Thanks to Erv Walter for pointing that out for me!
Kathleen has an eye-opening post on the use of XSLT for doing code generation vs. doing it via .NET code.
Sean Campbell from 3Leaf, who with his partner Scott Swigart are known as “Early & Adopter” explains why paying attention to Whidbey today is a good strategy. This does not necessarily mean ALL of your attention, but it is one of the reason that I keep telling my user group members to at least take some notice of what’s coming up.
Simon Stewart had an interesting comment in my last post on this that it looks to him as though on the conference front, Microsoft is focused on bringing on board those who have not yet jumped to .NET and then the future products, but not as much on advancing the skills of people who are already pretty deep into .NET. (I hope this is a fair summary of the comment ….but best to read it yourself…)
Thanks to a teaser from Scott Hanselman, and a helpful line of code he sent, I was able to add the archive feature to my dasBlog site.
The line of code Scott sent was
<%newtelligence.drawArchiveMonths()%>
which was all I got from him, so it was a good puzzle!
Here’s the rest.
dasBlog has a subfolder called THEMES which contains folders for each of the various skins.
In each of those folders there is a file called homeTemplate.blogtemplate
You can find in the patterns within this file, the area that builds the panel (on my site it is on the right….search, navigation, etc.) So I just copied and pasted one of those sections and replaced the title with “Archives” and the innerhtmll with the above macro.
<div class=”sidetitle”>Archives</div>
<div class=”side”><%newtelligence.drawArchiveMonths()%> </div>
I placed in between two other sections (Navigation and BlogRoll).
Once I uploaded the modified file, I had to go to config and reselect my theme so that this template file would get pulled into the main site.
Roman Rehak and his family are in Disney World and Roman is still finding things to tweak his geekness.
On WhatIsNew Lora relays important date changes to the Tablet PC Campus Tour. “Attention people planning to attend University of Washington Microsoft Tablet PC Campus Demo Tour, the event is actually Friday, May 14th NOT May 6th as the website listed. The team apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused. Microsoft is scrubbing the Campus Demo date list to confirm that all other dates listed are correct. Unless otherwise noted, events will be held in the campus bookstores. These events are an excellent way to see Tablet PCs and especially how to use them in college settings. If you are in an area where there is an event, please stop by.” Pass it along. |
Today we switched servers at my main client. The old box had win2k, IIS5 and SQL7. The new has win2003, IIS6 and SQL2000. So this meant with many vb6 apps, numerous .NET apps, many web services, a few asp websites and a few .net websites, and mostly win2000 client machines throughout the office, we had a lot of variety to deal with. I spent some time prepping and testing for this but of course, every computer is somehow different. I actually was able to solve some problems with some of the knowledge I gained prepping for the Seucrity Beta test. It was a long day and will be a long night. But it is worth it to have them finally on the newer server software.
I still plan to stay up to hear Kathleen Dollard on DotNetRocks live from 10pm EST – 12am.
Robert is doing some killer security talks at WinDev this year. I would love to attend both of these sessions!
http://weblogs.asp.net/Klaus.Aschenbrenner/archive/2004/05/06/126696.aspx
I’ll give you a hint, Klaus. It’s not me! 🙂