ChrisNTR

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For the past 9 months I have been working at Lightmaker Manchester. Since last Friday I am now working at Great Fridays (GFGP Limited) with the same great team from Lightmaker Manchester, with the same enthusiasm and skills from Lightmaker Manchester.

The guys over at Channel 9 have created the first blogging engine/content management system (CMS) based on the open source ASP.NET MVC framework. It's named Oxite and is avaliable to download now (in a Alpha version) on the Codeplex website. The first site that's built with it? Mix Online. Nice!

This weekend I attended DDD7, a free community conference held at the Microsoft Reading Campus. I presented a short Grok talk during the lunch hour on Open Source and Microsoft. Since the event didn't seem to have a internet connectivity, I used Dom Green's laptop to allow me to prepare for it. After downloading Firefox on the machine, something was blocking it access to the web so I had to stick with IE8 *shudder*. To make sure all the sites were big and clear on the screens, I made sure I had put up the size of the text on the screen... only to find out that when I plugged it into the display - it automatically resized the screen resolution leaving me with horrible big web pages... for every tab I had open... anyway, enough of the excuses and on with the links. Here's a list of the links that I showed:

• Lightmaker: The company I work for... (Lightmaker Manchester).
• Codeplex: Microsoft's Open Source Project Repository.
• ASP.NET on Codeplex: For out of bound ASP.NET releases (ASP.NET MVC, Dynamic Data, Dynamic Data + MVC etc).
• IronRuby: The main site for the IronRuby project.
• IronRuby Source: IronRuby source on RubyForge.
• jQuery Intellisense Support: There's a clue in the title.
• jQuery Documentation: A great place to find out how to really utilise the power of jQuery!

• IronPython: The main Codeplex site for IronPython.
• jQuery Form Validator Plugin: Simple but effective.
• Lightmaker Manchester Blog: Our Manchester Company Blog

A common problem that many developers face when using the Microsoft Virtual Earth SDK is that out of the box, you cannot generate routes which avoid highways/motorways. This functionality is available on Google Maps but not via the Google Maps API. It is therefore necessary to look elsewhere for the functionality.