I’m writing this on my way back from the Microsoft Research Academic Days in Lisbon. Many people from the different Universities were invited, so I got to see lots of friends }:) … not to talk about how cool it is to go to an event in which you actually DON’T HAVE TO PRESENT! Holidays! };D
The event was very well organized (as is typical in Microsoft… and even tough I know ONE of the organizers was not very happy about it };P) but I was not interested in all of the contents. I’ve highlighted some of the contents presented here:
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While creating some page for the com.dotnetclubs.Webparts project a friend faced this problem: for the RSS syndication you need to create an XML response, how would you do that with ASP.NET? As several other developers of the team also want to use RSS I guess a little explanation would do good.
Well, like in sex and Perl (or was it viceversa?), there’s more than one way to do RSS/XML response. You could actually use an HttpHandler or HttpModule to handle the response yourself. The easiest way in my opinion, however, is to part from a web service and do some tweaking. this is the way I’ll explain here
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Published on April 23, 2005
in ieee.
We spent this weekend in Madrid, enclaustrated in the IEEE Student Branch of the UPM, working on the Spanish section portal project. We left a prototype pretty much ready, I should say. We’ll try to beta-test it during the next weeks
Not everything was coding, of course. We even had the opportunity of seeing something not very typical in Madrid: the Paseo de la Castellana populated by no cars. It was during the city marathon, so they got all the surrounding area closed to traffic and we had the opportunity to walk in the middle of the street and take some photos:
Published on April 23, 2005
in personal.
Yesterday we had an MSDN workshop at Microsoft Spain offices in Madrid for showing some developers how to write secure code. Chema Alonso, MVP in Windows Security, and I were in charge of the show… and it went more or less like this:
Browsing around trying to find the appropiate format string for a .NET DateTime to be printed in RFC-822-compliant form (for RSS exporting of news in a component I’m preparing to include in http://dnc-webparts.sourceforge.net) I bumped on this yet another very interesting link covering considerations about dates and times on the web. Very interesting reading indeed.
http://www.hackcraft.net/web/datetime/
while I get ready with the “links” section of this page, check out this article about implementing rounded corners without having to switch images when backgrounds are different colours: using a transparent image
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/mountaintop/
Need to check if this is cross-browser, tough… you know sometimes CSS behaves unexpectedly when you switch browsers or OS update: checked, it works fine on Explorer, Mozilla & Firefox (both Linux and Windows) and Safari (in MacOS X). I’ve actually used it for the dnc-webparts web page
