Chris Jenkins's List: .NET Programming

When you start creating Silverlight applications with some level of animation you can get yourself into a situation where performance issues are hard to track down. There are a couple of not well known flags in the Silverlight plugin that you can use to help debug them.

On this page you will find dozens of videos designed for all ASP.NET developers, from the novice to the professional. If you are new to ASP.NET, you can learn the basics of how to create dynamic web applications with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, using either Visual Basic or C#. If you have a bit of development experience, you will learn how to employ some of the great new features introduced in ASP.NET 2.0.

This is ridiculously easy -- but it works. Go to your favourite IDE, and crank the font-size up. I switched from 10pt to 14 pt. The difference is that a lot less code fits on the screen at once. The effect is: you're forced to write shorter methods. And that's a Good Thing.

As a developer, would you like to learn more about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)? MOSS is based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, which gives developers the opportunity to get more problems solved with less effort. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 takes full advantage of Microsoft ASP.NET and the Microsoft .NET runtime. The new features and added programmability support in MOSS provide a wealth of development opportunities. This course will immerse you in many of the developer-centric capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML or Ajax is not a technology or a programming language as some may think. Ajax is a combination of well known and proven web technologies that used togehter in the right way can improve the responsiveness and user experience of web applications significantly. With Ajax every user action that normally would generate an HTTP request for a new page on the server takes the form of a JavaScript call to the Ajax engine instead. Any response to a user action that doesn’t require a trip back to the server — such as simple data validation, editing data in memory, and even some navigation — the engine handles on its own. Further when information is needed the Ajax engine requests only the information needed saving the load time of a full web page.

The netbook made by Always Innovating and making its debut at the DEMO conference today, claims to offer 10 to 15 hours of battery life, weighs under 2 pounds and perhaps most importantly, starts at $299.