Jason Mauss' Blog Cabin

In the spirit of building hype for something that's not quite there yet....

...to speak up if you want to meet up together for the November 7th Visual Studio 2005 Launch Event. Our group is still small so if anyone wants to meet up somewhere near the Moscone center, drop me a line.

I'm sure by now that hundreds of people have blogged about the new Live.com website. I've read at least a couple dozen posts about it myself. I've noticed a lot of people were quick to point out the lack of Firefox support (which is dissapointing but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it). People are also quick to point out the seeming lack of "innovation" of Live.com as a portal page and they're confused about the differences between Live.com and Start.com and why one has Firefox support and one doesn't. Yes, truth be told - it might be easy right now to get confused about it all - if so you should read the Ideas Page. I've seen a lot of "Oh, a portal page, welcome to 1996." and "These portal pages haven't got any better since they began 10 years ago." What I have not been seeing a lot of on the blogs - and it's kind of driving me nuts - is people saying something like this:

Over on his blog, Lance Hunt poses the question to Scott W. (and Telligent) about the asp.net weblogs and the status quo. As I've seen the blog engine formerly known as ".Text" grow into Community Server Blogs I've wondered on several occasions when asp.net weblogs was going to see an upgrade. (We use Community Server Blogs over at FAZR and it's served us well, btw). I like the newer features and skins.

Chris posted this one over on his blog, so I thought I'd give it a try - I am pretty good with addition/subtraction in my head - looks like I did alright:

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

The other day (or night? don't remember) Scott and I were discussing the movie "High Fidelity" over IM since I had just seen it for the first time. Since seeing the movie I've been walking around like a dork with OCD, compulsively asking co-workers their "top 5" this or their "top 5" that and using the phrase "with a bullet" enough to annoy them a little.

Especially when my pitiful little blog is worth over $10,000!! I saw Scott and Erik both do this so - I have to follow the crowd:

In an ASP.NET page, when you've used a System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlInputFile control in your page - sometimes you want to get the size of the file uploaded. The HttpPostedFile class has a ContentLength property - but the value attainable by using the .ToString() method leaves something to be desired. So, here is a simple little method I wrote to get you a more descriptive string from the ContentLength value - I thought I'd share it here for anyone that wants to do something similar.