Wednesday, February 07, 2007

I think a some what misunderstood definition of AJAX.  Though Leads 360 makes a really good point that I never really thought about, AJAX can save you a significant amount of bandwith. 

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posted by Aaron Fischer on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:10:38 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]

James Comtois describes some of the new Point features we have worked on.

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posted by Aaron Fischer on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:00:38 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Tuesday, February 06, 2007

After reading about these major Security holes in Vista, I am going to start the process of rolling back to my previous version of windows, sigh maybe its time to give FreeBSD a try.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 6:57:12 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]

Charlie Brooker wrote a nice article yesterday detailing how he hates Macs and how the choice of actors for the UK version of "Hello, I'm a Mac" are stingingly accurate.  I have to agree

Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

Now I personally feel dirty every time I have to use a Mac, dirty and homicidal. And I won't even get started about the one mouse button!  Nor do I buy this argument that hey are easy to use or more fun.  I mean Mac's don't come with Free Cell and they don't play any real games(until the game is ready for retirement, then they go visit mac users).

I am not even very impressed by the Mac's eye candy.  I have also found that if you have a problem on a Mac, they ostracize you, pretend you don't exist it seems like no one can have problems with the blessed Mac let alone find a solution to the problem.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 6:48:00 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Monday, February 05, 2007

In one of my greater moments of stupidity, I lost track of time and got ready to serve my juror summons the week after I was supposed to.  Which leads me to the need to write an apology letter and ask for a postponement of the summons.  So I start my letter with "I deeply regret to inform you that I missed my juror summons"  I know many apology letters start this way.  But what exactly do I regret? the the fact I have bad information that I need to tell you? Or the fact I have to tell you at all?  English WTF

posted by Aaron Fischer on Monday, February 05, 2007 2:05:38 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]

I see from time to time a Google search for MicroFisch, now this is most likely some one unable to spell microfiche.  What boggles my mind (and no I cannot spell) Is that there are companies that sell microfisch and not microfiche(5600 ish).  Now does any one know what a MicroFisch is?  Other then my domain name.  If your not sure of the spelling and your spell check is no help type it in Google and see what you get, typically Google will tell you what you ment to search for better then any spell checker I have used.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Monday, February 05, 2007 1:03:26 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Friday, February 02, 2007
Mark and the code rush gang have added a nice little screen cast of Refractor! asp.net refractoring

This is very neat.  The best part is that for those of you that don't have Code Rush/Refractor! Microsoft's ASP.NET team is picking up that tab for this set of refractors much the same way the VB team did.  I hear they will announce a download shortly.


posted by Aaron Fischer on Friday, February 02, 2007 7:45:46 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Thursday, February 01, 2007
After Reading Ricks troubles with OFX code generation I left a couple comments I thought would be useful for generating classes from xml/xsd.
XSDObjectGen from Microsoft. (vb or c#)
XSD.exe from Microsoft. (vb or c#)
XMLSPY from Altova. (Java, c++, c#)
CodeXS from Business Architects. ( c#) This is what i used for my MISMO mortgage application exporter. (follow the tools link.)


posted by Aaron Fischer on Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:09:09 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
 Wednesday, January 31, 2007
It's funny this idea that word and excel are good for things such as LOS or Closing/Servicing systems.
Take a look at Financial Services OBA

At the very least the diagrams are interesting.

posted by Aaron Fischer on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:04:50 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]
Add AJAX to ASP.NET
posted by Aaron Fischer on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:17:24 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)   #    Comments [0]