Community blog feed on 12 Jun 2009

• How to get a value from a text box into the database

  12 Jun 2009 at 22:39 from Stuff that's in my head

  This question was asked on a forum and I took some time to construct a reasonably lengthy reply so I’m copying it to my blog for a bit of permanence. ...

• In how many ways can the Microsoft Ajax 4 syntax break XHTML?

  12 Jun 2009 at 19:02 from Sebastien Lambla

  [Update: Added example pages from aria] For the answer, see the points below. I was going to email the comments below to some people at Microsoft that...

• Fighting for ReST, or the tale of the ice-cream maker

  12 Jun 2009 at 14:26 from Sebastien Lambla

  I keep on reading things like the following quote from wikipedia’s talk page on the ReST article (a poorly written page at that): Decide on an unambi...

• Silverlight 3 Session at NxtGen Fest 09, Microsoft Research Cambridge

  12 Jun 2009 at 13:33 from Mike Taulty

  I was at the NxtGen Fest 09 event in Cambrdige today talking about Silverlight 3. A truly fantastic day with a cracking start from Professor Chris Bis...

• Bradford on the up

  12 Jun 2009 at 11:59 from Neil Turner

  Between 2004 and 2006 I took a series of photos around Bradford, showing its run-down and dilapidated side. Spurned on by the news that Bradford has b...

• 29109 error when installing the quiescence GDR patch for TFS 2005

  12 Jun 2009 at 11:03 from BM Bloggers

  Whilst upgrading a single server TFS 2005 to a dual server 2008 install I hit a problem. I had installed the new 2005 Data Tier (DT) and patched it wi...

• Bosch and Völter announced as PPL2009 keynotes

  12 Jun 2009 at 10:01 from The Variation Point

  The first keynote speakers for October’s Practical Product Lines 2009 conference in Amsterdam have been announced as Jan Bosch (Intuit) and Markus Völ...

• Another pet drawing: a cat

  12 Jun 2009 at 09:35 from Neil Dixon

  ---- All rights reserved. nd.com Read on... I had forgotten the challenge of rendering short, fluffy cat fur in pencil! addthis_url ...

• The Morning Brew #367

  12 Jun 2009 at 09:34 from Reflective Perspective - Development

  Software XNA Game Studio 3.1 - Coding4Fun announces the release of XNA GameStudio 3.1, the latest version of the SDK for building XBox games ...

• New App for Writing Documents Online

  12 Jun 2009 at 02:03 from Tobin Harris

  <p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href='; &#8211; an online project management tool. BaseCamp also gives you <a href=';, which ...

• Microsoft unbundles Internet Explorer from Windows 7 – in Europe, that is

  12 Jun 2009 at 00:35 from Tim Anderson

  Microsoft is to offer a special version of Windows in Europe. Called Windows 7 E, it will be identical to Windows 7 elsewhere except for one thing: T...

• Scot ALT.NET: An Evening of O/RM

  12 Jun 2009 at 00:28 from Stuff that's in my head

  O/RMs help us bridge the gap between the database and the code base we love to write. On the night we will be looking at two O/RMs, NHibernate the mos...