A Blog for Graymad

Keith Pleas blogged about the plight of UAL pilots, given the trouble that the industry is in:

Thanks to Samer Ibrahim for the heads-up on Chris' testimony on the Open Source Software for Oregon Act. One observation I have is that I suspect Chris' testimony is likely to ruffle some feathers in the Open Source camp, at least among those who are sensitive to slights on their programming skills. Among other things, Chris says:

While playing with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit, I noticed that while it provided 95% of what I needed out-of-the-box (so to speak), there have been a couple of things that I wanted to tweak. Since these seemed like things that might be useful to other folks using the CSK, I posted these modifications to the ASP.NET Forums forum dedicated to the CSK.

Earlier this week, I blogged about how cool I think the ASP.NET Starter Kits, and in particular, the Community Starter Kit, are, and how easy they make getting a site together quickly and painlessly. But as with any other software product, there are bound to be times when either it doesn't work as expected, or you don't quite understand what you need to do.

If you're looking to get a site up in a hurry, with a minimum of fuss, then you owe it to yourself to check out the ASP.NET Starter Kits, downloadable from where else but http://www.asp.net/. These kits, which are currently in beta, are offered in the following flavors:

Microsoft announced today, on the MSDN .NET development site, that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has ratified the C# and CLI specfications.

Over the weekend, I blogged about a variety of topics, including the practice of running as admin in one's day-to-day work, a practice which I had to admit I still was guilty of (with the exception of my development work). I've since pulled my regular login from the Administrators group, and while the process hasn't been painless, it's not been painfull either. Here are some of the things I've run into:

My recent post on running as admin, and my admission that I was still doing it motivated me to reduce my shame quotient by removing my day-to-day account from the Administrators group once and for all.