Cool! In the past Microsoft already released similar posters but this time you can also Deepzoom to view it. Looks great.

• The pdf version
• The Deepzoom version

Grz, Kris.

I just noticed that on the site of jQuery there’s now also a download available for having a much better intellisense experience. It’s actually a big js file with xml comment that Visual Studio can interpret but it can be used to power up the development experience. Also when you do reference this only do so while developing and don’t put this into production since it’s waaaay bigger than the minified version (or the packed one). So make sure that you set that into production instead.

Update: I just found out about these extra handy tips for adding the documented jQuery file to your pages.

Grz, Kris.

Just noticed that I just wrote my 10.000th post on the ASP.NET forums. Cool! Well I hope many people enjoyed my replies and possible answers during those years.



Grz,  Kris.

Oh man, I just found out about this sad news. The following news statement is taken from the site of U2U, the company that he cofounded:

It is with deepest regret that we have to announce the death of Patrick Tisseghem, co-founder of U2U. Patrick suddenly passed away on Wednesday 3 September 2008 around 18 hours in Gothenburg Sweden due to a heart failure. Our sympathy and thoughts go out to his wife Linda, their daughters Anahi and Laura, and to his family. We are all deeply saddened by this tragic loss. We remember him as caring father as well as a driven and warm hearted colleague and friend. We miss you Patrick.

I followed one of his courses about Sharepoint several years ago and especially requested for a course given by him because I knew he was a world known expert on that particular topic. After that we met occasionally and moslty saw each other thanks to Microsoft related conventions or like a couple of months ago when we had a meet and greet with Tim Sneath.

I'm the guy on the left, then Peter and then Patrick himself. This is truly very, very sad news for his family as well for the community.

Grz, Kris.

Last week I had to help someone out on the ASP.NET that was asking the question that he couldn't find the 2.0 bits anymore of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. Indeed, when you navigate to the Releases tab of the project on Codeplex you'll only see this list:

During my studies of becoming an engineer I found marketing one of my most interesting side courses. During the last years I tried to follow blogs like the one of Seth Godin and was greatly amused by the Apple commercials.

Well today I found out about a great way that Google made up to show Chrome, their new browser, to the masses in the form of a comic book. I think it's just great marketing. I haven't tried out the Chrome browser myself yet but I'm looking forward to it. Not just because of the marketing behind it (I like to read comic books myself a lot so that also added to the appeal) but also from the point of view of a webdeveloper. Especially the javascript V8 engine looks very interesting with all kinds of AJAX web applications nowadays and if it's really as fast as they claim I'm highly interested.

Exciting times ahead with the newest release of Firefox (3) and the upcoming IE8. Since I also like to use a Mac I also use Safari nowadays. Aaah, I see a new browser war coming already like in the good old days between Netscape and Internet Explorer.

Grz, Kris.

I just found out about the new training kit thanks to the blog of Guy Bernstein. While I'm downloading this kit I'm also downloading the latest MSDN library optimized for VS 2008 SP1, a whopping 2205Mb.

Grz, Kris.

Well, just after last week SQL Server 2008 was released, SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 came out today. Normally a service pack only contains some patches but this time there's a lot of extra added features inside the package. The things I'm most looking forward to are these:

• ADO.NET Entity framework
• ADO.NET Data Services
• Classic ASP support in Visual Studio.
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ...
  

I noticed the links on the MSDN subscription pages and you can also download the goods here.

Here you can read more about what's inside.

Grz, Kris.