Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has officially been released. The ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework is an addition to ASP.NET . I’ve created an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Resources page to help ASP.NET developers download and learn more about the new ASP.NET MVC framework. If you would like to add something to the list or have any changes, just leave a comment or send me a Tweet.
Just finished downloading IE8. The install downloaded with no problems and delays. Nice job. I was expecting to have to wait till later this evening to try and download IE. The installation went fine on my Sony Vaio laptop running Vista Ultimate. Your mileage may vary.
After a reboot (when is this going to be fixed?), I fired up IE8 to see what our Microsoft Overlords have doled out to us. IE 8 will ask you if you want to go with some a default configuration or customize your settings. Some people will get a little confused by certain terms – Accelerators comes to mind. What exactly am I accelerating anyway? Thankfully there are not a lot of setup screens and the process took less than 20 seconds.
The basic interface has not changed that much. Few new buttons here and there. One thing you will notice immediately is the speed of the browser. This is prehaps Microsoft’s fastest web browser to date. It does not feel slugish. Browsing from page to page was very snappy and responsive. The rendering of pages is very clean and crisp. I didn’t notice any layout problems with any page that I browsed. Microsoft does provide a Compatibility view for web pages that are not so XHMTL compliant.
One thing that I’m really excited about is the new Javascript debugger located off the tools menu. I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for decent Javascript debugging in IE. The debugger is a cross between Firebug and the Developer toolbar plugin for FireFox.
With the IE 8 developer tools your able to do:
I was skeptical about this relase of IE. It seems pretty solid out of the gate. I won’t switch over from FireFox to IE 8 quite yet as my main browser. Security is the big unknown right now. Not just with IE 8, but with any web brower on the market right now. Regardless, good job Microsoft.
If you had an extra $29 billon dollars just sitting around in the bank, what would you do? I wouldn’t buy Pure Digtial that’s for sure. Cisco has now bought Pure Digital for $590 million dollars. Not a bad price at all for a 2 year old crapsumer video camera company.
Pure Digital the popular Flip Video cameras. You can find them just about anywhere. Matter of fact, I actually own one of their cameras. It’s easy to use and the video is produces is ok. My 9 year old daughter takes the camera with her everywhere. She was the big hit on one of her field trips.
I’m all for stimulating the economy, but WTF Cisco? You just announced last week you are getting into the enterprise server market, then you turn around the following week and buy a consumer video camera company. What’s it going to be next week Chucky Cheese?
Besides the obvious choice of throwing networking options inside new models of the Flip camera, how can this acquisition help Cisco? A more logical choice would have been to purchase GoGrid or another up and coming Cloud Computing company. Now that would make sense and you wouldn’t have had to spent $590 million dollars.
I’ve been having battery issues with my iPhone the past couple of weeks. I could not for the life of me figure out what was causing my battery to be drained down to nothing within a few hours.
I’ve got a couple of pages of apps on my iPhone. All of them, for the most part, have been behaving well. I don’t make a lot of calls and I haven’t been listening to lots of music lately, so I narrowed it down to new apps installed with the past few weeks. That narrowed it down to just one app – Twitterrific.
I know sure what Twitterrific is doing, but it’s like the electricial nosferutu for the iPhone. Anyone have any suggestions?
Sun recently announced that they are entering the cloud computing business. They were short on details, but long on creating communities, OS virtualization, API’s, and being a better value than Amazon’s EC2 service.
It remains to see how much traction Sun will gain in the growing cloud computing services market. I’m very satisfied with Amazon’s service. Joyent and GoGrid are also great vendors.
Consultants, small businesses and startups have been quick to latch onto cloud computing. For them, it’s a big win. No data center to maintain, an on-demand scale-out infrastructure and pay for the resources that you actually use.
There are downsides to putting your data in the cloud. At the top of the list is security. Followed closely by data persistence, resource availability, backup and recovery.
A new issue that has cropped up lately is regulatory compliance. All cloud vendors are pretty mum about giving away details of their cloud infrastruce. So it makes it very difficult for large corporate enterprises to assert that what they put out in the cloud is secure and in compliance.
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