ASP.NET Resources

February 2006

Is Ajax Licensing Upon Us?

Yesterday, February 27th, I noticed this article at Information Week: Patent Threatens Rich-Media Apps With License Fees. Some obscure chop shop out of San Francisco obtained a patent that “covers all rich-media technology implementations, including those that employ tools such as Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed by any device over the Internet.”

2/28/2006 |

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Jeeves Departs

If I’m not mistaken, today (Sunday) Jeeves, the butler at Ask Jeeves, has finally departed. Ask.com has been weeding him out over several months to see how people take it. I enjoyed the “personality” Jeeves was giving this search engine, which went beyond mere drawing of funky variations of the corporate logo (*cough* Google). I see Ask.com even took down the link to Jeeve’s retirement apology by the end of the day.

2/26/2006 |

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Session Q&A

Session storage has been around for so long that we take it for granted. However, working with the Session object has some nuances you don’t see documented in books. In this Q&A post I’d like to go over some issues you need to be aware of when relying on Session for short-term storage.

2/26/2006 |

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Con 2.0

It was fun to read Jeffrey Zeldman’s recent rant against the “Web 2.0” hype (picked up via Roger). In fact, Web 2.0 is, perhaps, one of the favorite jokes in the Microsoft camp. According to my calculations the Web is in version 10.0 or so by now. Hmm… some folks have been asleep for too long.

2/22/2006 |

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Don't Let Your Site Get Framed

Looking at my referral logs, I can’t help feeling disgust for all those social networks out there whose members appear to be the most illiterate computer users and the worst offenders on the bandwidth leeching front. Ironically, one of their most popular accomplices is Google Images where those freeloaders tend to harvest links.

2/21/2006 |

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Cast Your Vote for "Fruit Mix" Design

The Mix06 web site is hosting a contest for “remixed” home pages. I’ve spent a couple of days building a submission of my own, called Fruit Mix. Please cast your vote whether you love it or hate it.

2/10/2006 |

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