In about five minutes, I’m out of here - heading home early, then on a plane bound for Austin. Happy holidays, everyone!
Archive for November, 2003
I’m out
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003Fantastic exposition
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003Take that, opponents of church-state separation!
About time
Tuesday, November 25th, 2003Not that anyone cares, but one of my major pains behind moving to ASP.NET has been its inability to generate standards-compliant code out-of-the-box. I noticed it at the first class I took on .NET well over a year ago, I’ve heard people moan about it online since the technology arrived, and I’ve experienced it firsthand now that I’m finally starting to use the darn stuff.
Well, I’m tweaked a little less now - ScottGu is one of the developers on Whidbey, and he’s just announced in a blog post that ASP.NET Whidbey will in fact let you spit out good markup. Woohoo!
ISO
Tuesday, November 25th, 2003I’m looking for something, and I just can’t seem to find it.
I’m trying to get my head around object-oriented programming in the web world (more precisely, using C# in ASP.NET), and I’m having a bit of trouble with it. What I need is an explicit example of an object-oriented design process for a web application - what the appropriate levels of description are, whether the user gets encoded as an object, etc. I’ve seen numerous books on OOP in general and web development & design in general, but I have yet to find a good one for this particular topic. The closest I’ve come so far is Real World ASP.NET: Building a Content Management System, but to my dismay it was nowhere near the reference I require… Suggestions are welcome!
Marriage
Monday, November 24th, 2003I’ve been really excited for the past … gosh, almost a year now, over the prospect of marrying Lacie. The day she said yes was one of the happiest of my life, and I fully anticipate the big day itself to be the same. Nevertheless, with the current debate raging over gay marriage, I’m starting to think about things that I hadn’t really considered before.
There was a chat today on washingtonpost.com that raised several of the issues that’ve been bugging me, though because of the chat format they were only superficially explored.
More when I figure out what I’m thinking…
EDIT: Incidentally, the subject of the chat mentioned above is an editor at Legal Affairs magazine, which looks interesting - especially the Nov/Dec 2002 feature article.
