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Part 2 of 2 on SubSonic
I see that my second (and for now at least final) article on SubSonic is up on DotNetSlackers. Hopefully someone will find it useful and informative. This one is intended to be more practical than the overview I did last time. It builds out some of the functions of a blog engine using SubSonic queries and controls.
Thanks again to Sonu, Karl and the rest of the DNS team.
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Victoria Code Camp retrospective
[modified] Almost forgot. Here are the slides if you want to see them.
We're back from Victoria, where I did another version of my "A quick look at SubSonic" talk (it was a shorter version of the talk I gave in Winnipeg). What did I learn?
People don't stay all day at a Code Camp. During the kickoff, there looked to be around 100 people in attendance. There were all of 8 or so people in my talk (and a big 'Thank you!' to all of you), and the other two speakers (I would have gladly been in...
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Victoria Code Camp coming
Nolan (et al) has created a blog for information on the upcoming Victoria CodeCamp. Head on over there to read the writing on the wall, and hopefully I'll see you there (I'm taking the train down to the big city for the event)
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SubSonic article on DotNetSlackers
Thanks to Sonu (and Karl, and the rest of the DNS team), my (first) article on SubSonic is now up on DotNetSlackers. This one is intended to be an introduction, and I'll hope to continue professing my platonic admiration for said framework in the new year.
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That's two
I was busy through the week, so I couldn't commemorate my "second anniversary". Last Thursday (the 8th) marked the second year since, "My second biggest mistake" - aka my leaving Microsoft. So, what have we/I learned in those 24 months?
Work/Life balance. I feel that for the most part (i.e. excluding crunch time on projects), I have it. My commute is about 15s. The coffee in the office is fine (although not as frequent as I'd like). I am fairly strict about stopping work at the end of the day (excluding email and the newsletter of course)....
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Wha? Sexy pages on MSDN?
I see that there are a few new interesting pages on MSDN this morning. I can tell they're sexy, because they have a black background. And there are reflections! (Reflections are the new black). While their overall "Web 2.0"-osity is hampered by the MSDN chrome, it is interesting to see MSDN at least taking a chance at creating interesting pages.
Wonder who built those pages?
Which leads me to think a recurring thought while I was at said fish shoppe: Do visually interesting pages work for information? One of the requests we got a lot was for "sexier" pages on MSDN, particularly...
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What has been occupying my time
It's been about a nice round 17 months (give or take) since I left Microsoft. Since then, Microsoft shipped some software, people have argued, and the world continues its revolution, rotation and other movements.
I know all of you were wondering, "What's Kent up to?", so here is some of what I've been up to since I left.
I do a daily newsletter for Code Project, the Insider. It's a daily email of news on the industry, developer stuff and more. Oh, and sorry, no RSS feed.
I helped Bill Evjen (aka Writing Monster II) create a couple more books.
I did four...