Tales from the Evil Empire

JavaScript, like .NET, has a special thing called NaN, which stands for Not a Number. It is useful to determine if parsing a string successfully returned a number or for some operation results. Well, guess what this evaluates to:

The people over at DotNetSlackers are announcing a cool contest that can get you a free MSDN Premium subscription. Your control or extender has to be open-source and submitted before August 15. Good luck!

O'Reilly is publishing my book on UpdatePanel. This is a short work (less than 60 pages) I did with Matt Gibbs that is scenario-focused and gives an in-depth look at the UpdatePanel control of ASP.NET "Atlas".

I'm very excited to finally be able to point to this post of Nikhil's. I've known about this project from the start and am Super-Ultra-Mega-Excited (this expression (c) Andres Sanabria) about it, but until now I had to keep my mouth shut.

To trace XmlHttp requests in your AJAX application, there are quite a few solutions. There's Fiddler, of course, and there is Nikhil's excellent browser helper. These solutions still have an important drawback: you have to install them and/or configure them.

And I mean it. It will just eat up all of your free time. It will keep you awake at night and prevent you from doing anything else. For weeks. Or months. Your significant other will hate it.
Just look on the left of this page and compare my number of posts for April and May. Care to guess when I started playing The Game?
Don't start playing this game or you won't stop.
Oblivion

Try this:

When I was talking at the Journées Académiques last week, someone in the audience asked me about documentation tools for Atlas classes. That was a great question, especially as I had such a tool ready...