October 2004 - Onion Blog

  • 'The end of the internet'

    Chris Anderson of the Avalon team at Microsoft gave an interesting keynote presentation this morning at Win-Dev here in Boston (well, technically Quincy, Mass.). It was entitled 'the end of the internet' and was oriented around the evolution and growing...
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  • Essential ASP.NET WebCast series starts Nov. 9

    MSDN has opened up registrations for my WebCast series 'Essential ASP.NET' - a 15 part series based on my book broadcasting once a week on Tuesdays starting November 9th. Check out the details and sign up here (btw, the picture of the guy on this page...
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  • Async Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 - some results

    I finally had a chance to get back to looking at the new asynchronous page feature coming in 2.0, and contrary to my initial impression, I'm now quite pleased with the implementation. My last post on the subject discussed what actually happens when you...
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  • Brain to bytes

    In the past, I have tended to collect research on a given technology in many different ways. I would take notes in a notebook, write slides in Powerpoint, write notes in text files using emacs, write documents in Word, etc. This lead to a scattering of...
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  • Thither Profile!

    StefanG rightly points out in a comment to my 'Whither Profile?' post that round trips are not incurred with each access to the Profile object. Instead (and I have verified this using SQL Profiler) at most two round trips are incurred per page for retrieving...
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  • Welcome Herb!

    I'd like to welcome Herb Sutter with open arms to our growing list of distinguished bloggers! His book 'Exceptional C++' still holds a special place on my shelf and I've been a fan of his work for a long time. Here's a more formal description of who Herb...
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  • .NET Rocks! show now available

    I had a blast chatting with Carl and Rory late into the night on Friday! You can download the show now from http://perseus.franklins.net//DotNetRocks_0083_Fritz_Onion.mp3 and hear our discussions ranging from the HttpPipeline to many of the new features...
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