Speaker Three: John Lam

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A Conversation We Just Had In IRC jmullan: chris: who is this dude? ckdake: some guy The third speaker is actually pretty interesting in that he is talking about Iron Ruby and has a charismatic and energetic delivery. Oh, it's John Lam. I figured it out because he referenced an article by Jon Udell. Ooh, Boo! ...

Microsoft Web Development Summit Speaker Two: Electric Boogaloo

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Scott Guthrie is telling us about IIS. Not to be a wiseacre, but snooooooze. There is a tangential mention of an actually interesting thing, the MS SQL Server driver for PHP. We will get a whole session about that tomorrow. "Free visual web developer express edition" Strange that got mentioned, when it is "An ideal environment ...

Microsoft Web Development Summit

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This is my first real conference, and yet it isn't a regular conference by any means. For one thing there are only about 25 developers here (and a handful of Microsoft evangelists. Of the developers, most seem pretty much like rockstars, which makes my involvement seem perhaps a little dubious. We started with a dinner and ...

Fear of Tables in HTML

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For this blog I decided to try out Habari because that's what h0bbel is using and I wanted to use something that uses PHP5. After a week or so of fighting to get it to actually install and an hour fixing every E_STRICT complaint that PHP made, I was pretty happy. It looks all right and ...

Why another blog?

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My regular blog is certainly not a secret, but some people find it too personal (or vulgar) to read on a regular basis. Plus, most of my friends probably don't want to see code samples or Big O analysis of algorithms, so it makes to spin off a slice of my nerdity. I'm attending a web ...