Jim Zimmerman - ASP.NET, MVC, Ajax and ORM

For those of you who like to learn more about .NET and like to participate in the community, then you need to go to community-credit.com. Their motto is that they gie "Stupid Prizes to Smart People". Its pretty cool. You basically get points for participating in the .NET community. Blog entries, speaking, going to user group meetings, posting to forums, etc.

Have fun!

Here is a link to a nice podcast on some design patterns for ajax and some good architecting practices. It is done by Polymorphic Podcast.

http://www.polymorphicpodcast.com/shows/architectajax/


Podcast are a great way to get up to speed. Listen in your car or while you are working. I find it better in the car because I can really listen. Kind of distracting while working if you ask me. I just tried it and I think I will wait until i have a half hour drive accross town.

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http://www.axosoft.com/Products/ontime.aspx?cn=otm_stepromo

Does anyone know of a way to turn off the feature in visual studio where it insists on creating stupid style tags everytime i resize a table? It is driving me crazy. I found a simple program that removes them here: http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/archive/2004/06/17/2248.aspx but I really would just like to turn this feature off. It is very annoying and I have gone to writing my html by hand and no longer using the design gui for anything. If anybody has a clue on how to turn this off, please comment below.

Here are the links to download the libraries I showed in the demos today.

My Ajax 12

Anthem.net

Atlas

Ajax.net


Have fun building ajax applications! Its easier than you think.