I finally got my hands on the evaluations from the ASP.NET AJAX presentation I gave a few weeks back.  As a whole they are pretty good.  I appreciate all those that attended my session and gave me feedback.  The feedback REALLY helps me out because i've only given a few tallks/presentations so far, so I really use the feedback to see where my weaknesses are so that I can build off my next talk.

Thanks again!

For anyone that cares to read them, you can grab a zip of them here.

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The company I work for, Perficient, is BIG into Sharepoint 2007, specifically the Philadelphia Business Unit.  Now that I am done with the current client I've been at for over a year and a half, I'm going to be learning anything and everything there is to know about Sharepoint 2007 so that I can start working on projects with it.

With that, I decided to make my little side project, DT³ into my Sharepoint Sandbox.  I'm going to completely revamp the site (won't be hard since there isn't much there) and make it 100% Sharepoint 2007 based.  I'm also going to try to incorporate other technologies into it to show how Sharepoint 2007 can leverage other techs.  Currently it is hosted elsewhere, but I am going to host it myself so that I can have full control over the site and the addt'l technologies I'd like to include.  As I go along and add to the site, I'll try to use it as an example for some blog postings.

*** What does DT³ stand for?  Deep Thoughts Think Tank....DUH!   We're a think tank where we don't guarantee the quality of thought, only that we're always thinking. Check out the site as I am going to try to keep it updated regularly.

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Check out this blog posting about reverse engineering .NET assemblies with Reflector and Relfexil.  It shows you a quick password crack by changing the assembly so that all passwords but the correct one are valid.  Great if you get stuck with assembiles you can't use in those one off situations.  Kinda scary when you actually think about the implications of this.

A buddy of mine just mentioned that the same thing is capable in Java, so its not just an MS thing.

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Over at O'Reilly there is a article written by Derek Sivers where he details how he rewrote an entire PHP app in Rails and how at the end, he found that newer isn't always better.  Derek lists a few reason why it didn't pan out so well but I find #7 probably the best... plus it has a great title.  Derek makes a great point that you as a developer progress, so its a bit unfair to judge the code you wrote years ago.
I know there are a few apps I've written in the past that if I looked at them now i'd think, god, what the hell was I thinking!  At the time though, with what I knew, it was probably the best that I could do.  What I think that signals though is that I've evolved as a programmer since then.  I'd be more afraid if I looked at past apps i've written in the past and couldn't see anything wrong, that'd mean that I haven't progressed at all.

Check out the article here, I think it's worth a read and hopefully sparks some thoughts of your own.

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In going with my posting about trying to start back up my personal MySCORM open source project, it jogged my memory about a blog posting I read awhile back.

(Also i realized i've been posting links to a lot of OTHER peoples writings, postings, etc.  I going to try to really make an effort to start posting some of my own demos/examples based on some of the tools/tips/projects i've been blogging about)

Over at Coding Horror, Jeff Atwood was giving $5000 and MS was matching his $5000 to an open source .NET project in an effort to help promote the open source community as well as .NET (which doesn't have a strong presence in the open source community).  The posting itself and the money isn't really whats I find interesting, it is the comments to the posting by readers that I think contains a BUNCH of great open source projects.  I encourage you to take a look through the comments and seeing if any of these projects might help you out, no sense in reinventing the wheel.

Here are a few I feel are worth looking into:

ITextSharp - its a PDF generator

SubSonic - a GREAT DAL/OR Mapper

ZedGraph - a 2d graphing library

Umbraco - CMS that runs on MS SQL

Cuyahoga - Another CMS built on .NET 2.0

#ziplib - a zipping library (i've used this before and it worked great, really came in handy and was easy to use)

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