Glavs Blog

I'd like to congratulate my fellow readify colleagues and all round good guys for receiving MVP Awards this year:

Well CodeCampOz 2007 is beginning this weekend. It should be a great event with a host of good speakers. If you have the opportunity, and are somewhere in Australia, I encourage you to get toCharles Sturt Uni in Wagga Wagga, NSW for some good technical discussions.

Joseph Cooney has released his first version of a "mind mapping" piece of software written in WPF. Joseph had me do some alpha testing on some earlier versions and its a real quality piece of code. Nice to use, nice to look at. I'd encourage you to give it a look, and provide some feedback to Joseph so that future versions are made even better.

Couple of things in this post. Firstly (and long overdue), I have updated my personal website to get rid of the Atlas CTP functionality and replace that with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 features. There is not much actually a few update panels, and the inclusion of an AJAX Control toolkit control, the Accordion on the front page to help with useability and screen real estate. Here is a screen shot of the new layout:

A new release of the AJAX Control toolkit has just hit the airwaves. It contains a bunch of fixes in there, as well as some new controls, specifically the ListSearch and Slideshow controls. In addition, all release bits now use compressed javascript files stripped of xml comments and safe whitespace

Recently, I had been asked to examine a situation where WSE V3 service calls were substantially quicker than the equivalent WCF version.