DotNetJunkie XL on the 7th Floor

So a new start?

At this moment I am thinking about blooginh again on DNJ.
I am not really sure yet if I will blog here again or move to another aggregated blogservice.

So many bloggers I respect moved over to another provider because DNJ was silent, did not do anything against the spam and did not reply on complaints of those that already quit.

I am just wondering what the motivation is of those that stay and what is the motivation of DNJ. What are the plans now?

Convince me guys!

Comments are off !!

The last 6 months I've been pretty busy and posting on this blog was moved to a lower priority. But since the spamming started I skipped the blogs here. A lot of people are moving on to other sites and there won't be a lot of reasons anymore to pass by. I will see how things turn out after the update, but at this moment comments are turned off.

[update] More Gmails, so mail me

~~Maiil me at floor7<at>gmail.com~~

~~First 5 mails get an invite.~~

Sorry all gone for now.

The Express family

Downloaded Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.

Hope to check them out this week.
There are also some blogs from the guys who made those tools. Check them out!

http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlexpress
http://weblogs.asp.net/express/

I Got My GMail !

Got an invitation from Sacha.

Thanx

floor7<at>gmail.com

This made my day, and also the Dutch beat Sweden and go to the semi finals!

Go Get It: FABRIQ

FABRIQ is a high-performance, one-way, queuing-network like messaging architecture with accompanying reference implementation. FABRIQ is the result of a collaboration between Microsoft EMEA HQ and newtelligence AG. Project Lead: Arvindra Sehmi, Microsoft EMEA HQ Architect Lead: Clemens Vasters, newtelligence AG Development Lead: Eugenio Pace, Microsoft Corp.

(http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/fabriq)

The goal of this project, code-named “FABRIQ”, is to create a special-purpose, high-performance, service-oriented, one-way messaging infrastructure for queuing networks, agents and agile computing. It’s not a Microsoft product. It’s an architecture blue-print backed by code that we write so that customers don’t need to – at least that’s the plan.

I desperately want a GMail account .... and I'm gambling for it now

I've been trying 24 hrs at http://www.freegmailinvites.com/ (what a good initiative!) but so far no luck.

I got already twice 4 sixes, and twive 6 fours, but .... that does not deliver me one invite for GMail. And no one feels sorry for me and sends me an invite...

Hosting ASP.NET, just pick one

Hosting ASP.NET
ASP.NET is more than just the next generation of Active Server Pages (ASP). It provides an entirely new programming model for creating network applications that take advantage of the Internet. This section includes information on configuration, security, and deployment of ASP.NET applications. [ Read More.. ]

Application Server - Host ASP.NET apps using XSP on Windows (written in c#)
Covalent Apache 2.0 Web Server - Host ASP.NET under Apache on Windows
Casini - Host ASP.NET on Windows (written in c#)
Internet Information Server - Host ASP.NET on Windows 2000 or higher
Mod Mono - Run ASP.NET pages on Unix with Apache and Mono
Proposion - Host ASP.NET on Lotus Domino servers
XSP - Run ASP.NET pages under Mono (written in c#)

[source: dotnetpowered.com]

MonoDevelop 0.4 - .NET and Gtk# frameworks put together

MonoDevelop 0.4 has been released. MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. MonoDevelop is in the very early stages of development right now, and progressing quickly.

MonoDevelop has many features. Some of these include:

Class Management
MonoDevelop has a class viewer which allows you to list the classes in your project, their methods, and properties. Your namespaces are also kept track of to keep the classes separated. When you add something to your project, it will automatically be added to the class viewer, even if they're namespaces, classes, methods, or even variables.

Built-in Help
The .NET documentation and the Gtk# documentation are built into MonoDevelop for easy access.

Code Completion
With the .NET and Gtk# frameworks put together, it can be challenging to remember all the classes, methods, or properties that are at your disposal. MonoDevelop's intelligent code completion attempts to complete what you're typing. If it finds a match, just hit tab and MonoDevelop will do the typing for you.

Project Support
MonoDevelop comes with built in projects that help get you started with your console, Gnome# or Gtk# application.

Integrated Debugger
MonoDevelop integrates with the Mono Debugger to provide a graphical frontend to the debugger.

Looks like all companies want .NET apps now! (and good developers are rare...)

My god,

I haven't been here for a while for several reasons. First of all, I've been extremely busy with a time consuming project for the Dutch government. Second, I was fed up with the spam I got all the time in my mailbox from the dotnetjunkie blog. But that one looks solved now...

I belong to the .NET group in our company and for the first time in the last 4 years we have no developer without assignment or project. It looks like Dutch companies are back into business spending money on new applications. That's good, that's very good!! But... we actually have to turn down project because we don't have enough capacity to accept new interesting projects. What a shame! And it looks like it is difficult to find new developers with the right skills. Where are those C# gurus hiding in the Netherlands? We need at least an extra 5 to 10 people in the next months.

I guess every company is contracting extra developers right now around here and developers are most of the time going for the highest salary, though environment and team spirit are more important imho.

Is this a trend that we are all making at least 10 hours per day to please our clients because the right people can't be found?

My blog is spammed and the Dotnetjunkies administrators aren't even replying on my complaints concerning these....... Thanks a lot!

MyGeneration Code Generator, another CodeSmith?

MyGeneration Code Generator

MyGeneration is a .NET developer tool that generates code from templates by combining either JScript or VBScript with a powerful database meta-data API.

It's 100% FREE:

You can use MyGeneration free of charge! The only thing we ask in return is that you provide us with feedback, report any bugs, contribute to our site, and tell others.

Multi-Database Support:

The MyMeta API can read meta-data from Microsoft SQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, and Microsoft Access. You can then use the meta-data to programatically generate stored procedures, business objects, and even user interfaces.

Entity Aliasing:

Most code generators don't allow the user to alias the names of tables, views, columns, relationships, etc. MyGeneration supports this and more!

Interactive Template Input:

MyGeneration is probably the only Code Generator out there that allows for a dynamic Graphical User Interface script block. You can write scripts that will capture data through a Windows GUI and copy them to a data structure for use in code generation. Each Template has an optional User Interface code section.

Powerful Template Editor:

Our template editor uses the powerful and well known Scintilla source code editing control. It features syntax highlighting, search and replace, line numbering, and many other nifty features!

Looks promising this new free tool. You can generate template based business objects for C#, VB.Net and for PHP classes.

Some screenshots here of the tool! Got to check this one out the next weeks. Hope you guys share some experiences too.

Just a simple registry import and a usetype.dat file to use VS for PHP

Yesterday I talked about vs.php but you don't need extra components to edit php scripts in the VS.Net IDE....

Copy usertype.dat to your Visual Studio IDE directory (Default install should be C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2003)\Common7\IDE). usertype.dat contains PHP specific keywords.

Import php_edit***.reg (*** = your version) into the registry. All it does is create a .php extension entry, and maps that extension to the C/C++ syntax highlighter/editor.

You get:

= Syntax Highlighting
= Code Folding

Get it here

PHP.Net ?

Develop php applications from within Visual Studio.Net 2003?

Deploy your application to a Linux server with ease. Integrate your PHP web services with .Net applications and vice versa?

You should then take a look at VS.Php !

Great, no more swithching between editors and full integration of PHP and .Net

Code highlight for PHP 4 and PHP 5 syntax - Highlight keywords, identifiers, comments, string literals as well as numbers. You can customize the styles using Visual Studio .Net standard options dialog.
Intellisense support:
- PHP built in functions - VS.Php includes the latest definitions of the PHP built in functions.
- PEAR classes and functions - Include your PEAR classes into your PHP files and the classes and functions will be included in the intellisense. The PEAR files must be located in the local machine and you must provide the location where the PEAR files are installed.
- Your functions
- Your objects
- Your constants
- Function and method parameters
Funtion parameters tooltips - As you type your parameters VS.Php will provide a tooltip window telling you which parameter you should be entering. As you move along the parameter list, the tooltip follows you.
Real time syntax checking - VS.Php is constantly checking the syntax of your php files and when your code has a syntax error it will highlight the code that has the error.
Bookmarks management - VS.Php leverages Visual Studio ability to add bookmarks to the code. You can use these bookmarks in any of your PHP files.
Cross-file searching - VS.Php lets you use Visual Studio find and replace functions within a single file or across directories of files.
Regular expression searching
Window cloning - You can have multiple windows open of the same file.
Customizable keystrokes - You can customize your editor to fit your needs.
PHP help integration - Press F1 on top of a Php function and VS.Php will show you the documentation of that function.
Bracket matching support - Place your cursor on top of a bracket and VS.Php will highlight the corresponding bracket associated with the one you are selecting.

Editing PEAR.php

Intellisense feature

Bracket matching feature

Create new project

Solution Explorer

Debug settings

FTP deploy settings

CMS: What should be in there? What do you recommend?

I have read many articles about CMS.

But what is it? What should be in there? For what do you use it?

So far I've seen some and all of them are missing essential content or content editing possibilities.
In my opinion a CMS must also give you the opportunity to inherit content of other existing sites in a control.
For example, if I have a site with a forum (built in PHP or .Net) and want to show it in a pane of my new site, then that must be possible without having problems with scripts or content display.
If I'd like to use data (xml data or feeds) from a source, then that must be easy to configure for a user. If I'd like to use a datasource (whatever databse or flat file structure) then it must be possible. If I want to change my template, then it must be easy to do so.

I don't know if there are .Net open-source content managing systems that meet my expectations... or should I just start building my own?

Give me some advice! Let me know what are the right requirements for a CMS for you guys?