Jim Meeker's Web Log

Where I've been and .Net Hobbyists

I've been out to sea the last couple of weeks.  The next few months are going to be spent mostly at sea.  The good news is that it's giving me a lot of time to study for more MCP exams. I'm working on 70-306 right now. It'll also saves me some gas money.  Whew! $1.66/gallon now!

Being a .Net Hobbyist has some advantages. For one when I get home at night I haven't been coding all day.  I'm more likely to dig into code at night and learn more.

posted Saturday, March 27, 2004 8:16 PM by jimmeeker with 0 Comments

RSS Information

A tutorial on creating RSS feeds.

Feed Directories:
Feedster.com
NewsIsFree.com

posted Friday, August 22, 2003 5:59 AM by jimmeeker with 0 Comments

Southern VA .NET UG Meeting Tonight

Southern VA .NET Users Group is having a meeting tonight. 6:30 at the Old Dominion University Peninsula Campus in Hampton, VA (Directions). Tonight's Topic is the nUnit Testing Framework.

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:07 AM by jimmeeker with 0 Comments

No TV for Jim

I was curious, so I plunked down the cash for a membership at Learning Visual Studio .NET. I really like the training videos there.  Last night I found myself watching training video after training video. So much that I shut off my TV, which usually is on no matter what I'm doing. I learned a lot in that one session and I've only scratched the surface of what's available to me there.  I recommend it for people who are learning .NET and Visual Studio. Good Stuff Maynard.*

posted Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:17 AM by jimmeeker with 0 Comments

Must Subscribe

4GuysFromRolla now has an RSS feed for it's recent asp.net articles.

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/rss/rss.aspx

posted Monday, July 28, 2003 8:23 AM by jimmeeker with 0 Comments

MSDN Labs?

I wonder what this is going to turn out to be.

posted Saturday, July 19, 2003 5:53 PM by jimmeeker with 0 Comments

Application Blocks

As many have already commented it's difficult to navigate through MSDN to find the Application blocks.  Here is what I've been able to find so far.  If I've left any out, please let me know and I'll update this list.

Aggregation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/ServiceAgg.asp

Asynchronous Invocation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/PAIBlock.asp?frame=true

Caching: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/cachingblock.asp

Configuration Management: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/cmab.asp

Data Access: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/daab-rm.asp

Exception Management: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/emab-rm.asp

Updater: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/updater.asp

User Interface: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/uip.asp

posted Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:24 AM by jimmeeker with 0 Comments

70-310 exam Prep

I mentioned the other day that I was preparing to take the Web Services Exam 70-310 and presto others start talking about it.  I'm not saying I was the spark for that conversation.  But it sure was handy to have all of those links right when I need them. Tim's Exam Links looks especially promising.

posted Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:30 PM by jimmeeker with 0 Comments

Reports Starter Kit

I'm back from vacation finally.  Back to getting up at 5am for work again. UGH!

If you haven't checked them out yet the Reports Starter Kit is well worth the time.  I demo'd a site today that used a lot of the methods I learned about in the Drill Down Report from that kit.  Blew away the boss and everyone else who saw it.  Unfortunately it's on SIPRNET so if I showed it to you I'd have to kill you. Anyway thanks to everyone who had a hand in putting that and the other Starter Kits together.  Great stuff there.

Here's a little anti-spam app that I love.

posted Tuesday, June 10, 2003 7:55 PM by jimmeeker with 0 Comments