OK social network, do your stuff. I am going to be traveling in Italy next week and need some restaurant recommendations for anything pretty much with a 3 hour drive of Turin. If you have anything else that is not to be missed, please pass it on.
#1 Italian translation on 5.16.2010 at 11:39 AM
La Bocca in Milan is an excellent restaurant that serves traditional Tuscan food. I have eaten there four times and can strongly recommend it.
These are the places I am going to start
Build Your Own WordPress Themes the Easy Way
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Frameworks
then go to
http://webgambit.com/blog/converting-a-wordpress-theme-to-grafffiti/
I think I should be able to get something functional and good looking pretty quickly.
Now I just have to start.
Scott Hanselman calls it “paving” I think of it as “repaving” because this machine has been rebuilt so many times. This is a preliminary list – I will add more as I need more – but this is the bare minimum.
Virtual Clone Drive freeware for mounting .iso images
Visual Studio 2008 Pro
Visual Studio/Development additions needed
Notepad2 & Notepad++ (I haven’t picked a favorite)
Fiddler2 beta 2.x – great HTTP snooper and invaluable REST spelunker
Kaspersky AV (Tech preview for win7) – I had been a fan of the free version of AVG, but it has become to intrusive – too many geegaws – I want something stripped down.
Windows Home Server Client (HP MediaSmart)
Office 2007
Beyond Compare Pro from Scootersoft – this program rocks – will change your life!
Zune Client (yeah, that’s right – I love the subscription)
VLC Video Player
Prish Image Resizer – I need one and Scott says that this is the one to have. So I am getting it
At work we use AIM – but I am trying out Pidgin to reduce the amount of advertising I have to contend with.
Pretty sweet – I completely repaved my Asus R1F tablet with Windows 7 RC build 7100 just now. Total time from rebooting the machine with the install DVD in it to writing this with Live Writer – 50 minutes.
I may be a few drivers shy, like the screen rotate hardware button, but the pen is working and everything seems copacetic. It downladed a couple of drivers (fingerprint reader, update for the network card), then off to windows live to grab messenger, live writer, photo gallery and movie maker.
Set up live writer and here I am now – total of 55 minutes – 5 minutes to write the post.
Tomorrow, get the dev tool in – so far so good 😉
OK – I have posted enough stuff tonight – but I just came across this and it seem pretty interesting and relates to a project I am working on… the title says it all – thanks.
Vibro.NET : Enhance your ASP.NET Membership-based website by adding Identity Provider capabilities
I don’t always agree with the content or tenor of 37signals, but Ryan Singer is dead on here. While haven’t every step-by-step used his original approach which he outlines here in his intro to patterns, the spirit of it is what I have advocated for now on 20 years.
That it draws its inspiration from Christopher Alexander – the source of all this pattern chatter – the inspiration for the GoF – is in my opinion, right on. I think this really hits at the real spirit of patterns in the way that Alexander was formulating a process for architects and their clients to converse about bricks and mortar/light and shade/real world architecture.
This gets beyond the current technical fad of calling every coding tactic a pattern – because it is not about the pattern – it is about facilitating the conversation between the client and the practitioner.
Secondly, Ryan is relies on sketching – quick – not polished – iterative – sketches – pen on paper – this is Bill Buxton’s whole mantra which I completely and totally believe in and his presentation at Mix 2009 was excellent lecture on the power of sketching.
I am not a fan of the wireframe, though I have been dealing with wireframes for about 10 years. For the record, I don’t like the functional specs that proceeded them – however, serious and rigorous business analysis is often a must – and that seems to be a lost art.
Finally, is the call to build working software – not polished wireframes – something that you can click on – and yeah – I am all about that iterative builds – working software!! It may seem a little slower in the first few days, but in the long run it is the road to success. Working software is something that my colleagues and I are really devoted to, because it works.
OK – so this is post is a little rough – but I think you get the idea.
OK – enough tech let’s get to the good stuff – Formula One – it has been a ridiculous season so far. One thing that is keeping me interested is whether or not Fernando Alonso will jump to Ferrari mid-season. He is rumored to have a deal to join the Scuderia next year – I would guess it is Kimi’s seat that is on the line.
In this interview Fernando is – well – so critical of slow cars – which he has suffered with at Renault – but so constructor neutral – so hopeful for the future of all the teams that are having terrible seasons this year under the new regulations.
I liked this quote from the formula1.com site
Q: How about Ferrari, are you surprised by their performance? FA: I think we expect Ferrari to perform well in every championship. When you start the season in Australia and you ask for the favourite team people always say Ferrari because they have been the top team for the last ten years. But obviously Formula One is different this year. I think Ferrari is a strong team in general, like McLaren, and also like Renault, and we will come back. We will improve our car as well and be at the level of the top teams, and Ferrari will do the same.
Friday Practice in Bahrain is over and Fernando is #2 – pretty quick – Felipe and Kimi are at the back of the pack. Such is the way in F1.
It’s just a good idea – denying that email is still a great way to get notifications and respond to them is silly. Embrace email – it has its shortcomings – but it is powerful too – and no vendor lock-in.
This just in from Tom Rizzo and Chris Capossela – MOSS is no more – the O for Office is out and MSS means Microsoft Search Server – so SharePoint is just SharePoint.
I am very interested to see what this is going to look like – what will the licensing for internet facing sites be like – how standards compliant will the output of SharePoint 2010 be? Will we still have to rely on Heather Solomon to decipher the CSS labyrinth?
Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Microsoft SharePoint “14” is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx
While I don’t need this right now – I am taking note here – in the manner Joel & Scott were laughing about on Hanselminutes last week – using a blog as a bookmark – there was plenty in that podcast that I could give Joel grief about –but I’ll save that for another day – when I decide that turning on him in public will actually benefit me 😉
But back to the topic of the post – anyone who is doing .NET dev and using OpenID/OAuth out there – I would love to here your reviews of Andrew’s work.