Barnes and Noble just recently unveiled their upcoming eReader, the Nook.
On the blog of my non-techy alter-ego I've posted a comparison of the two
readers that is entirely based on my own personal feelings of what is cool
and what isn't, so take it as opinion and certainly not as a technical
review. Click here to check out the blog post.
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As mentioned in my previous blog post, you don't get full designer support on
SQL Azure within SQL Server Management Studio. In addition, you don't get
designer support for LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, either. So what do you
do if you want to take advantage of these awesome object mapping tools but
the designers don't work directly against the cloud?
Conveniently enough, if you follow... (more)
Templated Helpers are one of the new features in ASP.NET MVC 2. The other
day, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 came out and some of you may have noticed that
it comes pre-equipped with a beta release of ASP.NET MVC 2. In short a
templated helper is a way of using various combinations of implicit and
explicit rules to automatically place partial controls wherever particular
data types need to a... (more)
Cloud Hosting Journal on Ulitzer
Yesterday a friend of mine was asking me what I've been doing lately in my
spare time. When I mentioned that I'd been doing a lot of messing around with
Windows Azure, he was naturally curious. After explaining what Azure is, he
asked me what the difference was between Windows Azure, a cloud computing
environment, and traditional web hosting scenarios.
On... (more)
Azure Cloud on Ulitzer
Let's take a look at this pretty common scenario. You're building an ASP.NET
application (MVC or otherwise) and you intend to publish it in the cloud and
you're using Azure Storage (not SQL Azure) for your underlying data store.
You've already hooked your app up with the sample Azure-based Membership
provider that comes with the Azure SDK and everything is running a... (more)