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Why isn't Microsoft's AJAX.NET reviewed? I figured they would be a major player in this, right?

MS's toolkit has been great - FF & Safari support is a breeze in most instances, allowing us to develop our applications really quickly

Having downloaded and hacking a few quick demos with the silverlight BETA API, I am looking forward to integrating the CLR in our future releases

OK, first it sounds like you need better planning from management. You don't change the front ends, then change the back-ends, do it all at the same time. Also, if your queries worked without change from one RDB to another, they weren't that complicated and would have survived some search-and-replace to make the transition.

Here's why stored procs are bad, it includes some information like stored procs don't even run faster:
http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2003/11/18/3 8178.aspx

And my response to that article

Ad-hoc SQL Script is brittle
"changes to a relational model will have always an impact on the application". so you could update your procs which are all in one place, or search for and hope you changed all of your ad-hoc queries. Either way you have to change something, the only benefit is not involving a DBA.

Security
Instead of applying security through stored procs, do it through roles. Oh yeah that's basically the same thing too? Oh I didn't think of that. What did you say about Parameterized queries? Totally secure? then this guy's an idiot.
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/chris.taylor/archi ve/2004/10/13/28370.aspx

Performance
So, procs have their execution plans cached like dynamic SQL? Great, that's the third thing that's basically the same. Oh yeah and stored procs are bad because of cursors. (wtf?) And a database with 100 tables, with 7 fields per table. "You can't create stored procedures for all possible combinations either, that would require 100*7! procedures." Yeah, I can do it in SQL and C# and ASP 3.0 and probably some other stuff. Who writes their own add/update/delete procs these days?

So his argument is Don't use stored procs because dynamic SQL is exactly the same. And disregard SQL injection, that's not important, it's much better to spend time validating all of your input. And apparently his DBA doesn't like him. And he changes his data model far too often, he needs better design discipline.

The only part of this I agree with is the comment:
I would hate to run into this type of code personally. I mean, you are basically writing a stored procedure at that point and hard coding it into your app.

Once again: you've never done this yourself.

That's a pretty bold assertion that is very far from the truth. I have setup, administered, and even created commercial forum software in the past. It's a topic I've given a lot of thought on in the past because of my experience and history. I agree that moderation is a draining time sucker, but it's the only sure-fire way to stop spam. And it is possible. And it's not that bad if you only allow users with accounts to make posts, and you make creating an account a multi-step process that involves a CAPTCHA somewhere in the pipeline.

Look at the ASP.NET Forums, for instance (a messageboard site I helped moderate at one time). Here are the current stats: 278,860 users have contributed to 688,376 threads and 1,533,621 posts. And it's all moderated! Now, with the ASP.NET Forums moderators can mark users as "Trusted," which means they're posts are automatically approved, so that cuts down on your frequent posters, but the vast, vast majority of users are moderated. But that's ok, because in most communities there are a select few who make the lion's share of posts. For example, in another messageboard I run, there are 861,398 posts in total. The top 10 posters comprise about 150,000 posts, or nearly 18% of the total number of posts!

ASP.NET Ajax, with the default settings, is protected against these attacks.

ASP.NET Ajax, with the default settings, is protected against these attacks.

You mean like this? From February of 2005? This is describing the 'predecessor' called CSharpWrapper that eventually became Ajax.Net Pro http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2005/02/15 /373072.aspx

The MSFT technology that the poster is referring to used to be marketed as Atlas but no longer. It is not in violation of this patent because it does not compile server side code into client side java script. Instead, it provides a lot of web controls that use AJAX instead of the traditional ASP.NET form post to interact with the server.

They are going to try to tie specific implementations to Proprietary products (Windows, IE etc).

That is fact-free spin.
The MS Ajax toolkit has a stated goal of "work with any browser".

They are going to try to tie specific implementations to Proprietary products (Windows, IE etc).

That is fact-free spin.
The MS Ajax toolkit has a stated goal of "work with any browser".

Meanwhile, Microsoft releases a new version of Visual Studio with JScript support and a library that makes AJAX programming dead simple.

Microsoft has zero interest in killing AJAX, JScript, or the web.

You don't even need to wait: http://ajax.asp.net/

May I suggest Kenny Kerr's Window Clippings, a (freeware) screenshot utility that "generates a transparent image - the shadow and glass have their alpha channel set".

From a review: "This isn't a perfect simulation of what real Glass does - it won't blur the area behind the title bar. This is because there's no way of building a bitmap file that will have such an effect. But given the limitations of what you can do with existing bitmap formats, Kenny's utility is as good as it's possible to get".

I believe it is. I remember there was a hack http://weblogs.asp.net/dfindley/archive/2006/06/20 /Set-hardware-clock-to-UTC-on-Windows-_2800_or-how -to-make-the-clock-work-on-a-Mac-Book-Pro_2900_.as px to use UTC, but it didn't work quite right http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/ 02/224672.aspx. (Sorry about the long links, couldn't figure out how to do it properly.)

You mean, ActiveX-based software, right?

They might be able to do something with that shiny new AJAX framework of theirs, ATLAS instead of using ActiveX.

One of the design requirements for the new IIS7 is better support for PHP.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/10/31/ PHP-and-the-FastCGI-Module-for-IIS-7.0.aspx

Apparently competition sucks when Linux is on the trailing edge, eh?

On both my Win2K and WinXP boxes, I still have to apply this fix every time Firefox 2.0 updates itself. Had to do it just yesterday when 2.0.0.2 was released. WTF is up with that? Is there something weird about both of my systems that Firefox doesn't like? How are non-technical users supposed to deal with crap like this?

Impi - Diplomatic Corp, South Africa

The ongoing war against PHP by the GNAA has finally produced results that are a step in the right direction. GNAA have been aggressively involved in a campaign to educate the public at large about the tremendous control that MOSSAD has over the development of PHP and the subsequent clandestine information gathering technology that has been implemented by Jewish developers.

The co-founders of Zend, the PHP Company, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are known Israeli MOSSAD agents; they were recruited by MOSSAD during their formative years at the Israel Institute of Technology.

On Friday, 28 July 2006, Jani Taskinen, aka _sniper_ resigned from the PHP development team. FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you Jews. I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Good bye.

This was a direct result of the ongoing war against Hezbollah which has been backed by the USA and primarily been driven by the information gathering technologies embedded in PHP by Zend.

Several GNAA members who were also part of the PHP development team have also resigned in solidarity with Jani Taskinen.

timecop, the glorious president of the GNAA has reacted in the wake of these events by extending an invitation of honorary lifetime GNAA membership to _sniper_, for having courage in his convictions.

GNAA official website, located at http://www.gnaa.us/ is powered by Microsoft Internet Information Services and ASP.NET, running on INTEL hardware.

About Zend

Zend is an Israeli funded body that is controlled by MOSSAD.

About PHP

Crap.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
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Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

From their Migrate RC to RTM doc.
The ASP.NET AJAX validator controls that were part of the RC release have been removed. You must remove the following registration entries for those controls from the section and remove any instances of these controls in your pages.

Oh goodie, let me just go back and do that and undo my previous days work. Apparently there will be a fix in the near future, but for now there's a bandaid available.

From their Migrate RC to RTM doc.
The ASP.NET AJAX validator controls that were part of the RC release have been removed. You must remove the following registration entries for those controls from the section and remove any instances of these controls in your pages.

Oh goodie, let me just go back and do that and undo my previous days work. Apparently there will be a fix in the near future, but for now there's a bandaid available.

I agree. Say what you will about Microsoft, but I can't remember ever seeing a web calendar as sweet as this one... http://ajax.asp.net/ajaxtoolkit/Calendar/Calendar. aspx Easy navigation by month, year or decade (click on "January, 2007"), and it's a pleasure to use the control. I'm not a fanboy, I just like to see things done well. The control works smoothly in FireFox, but I can't speak for Opera &c.

Actually you can. Obviously the server side asp.net extensions where you can mark web services as ajax servers and the functionality to raise the nice eventing model requires asp.net at the back end; but the client side libraries (the way to call web services, timers etc.) are released on their own, for use anywhere;

Microsoft AJAX Library

For ASP.NET AJAX development on non-Windows systems, the Microsoft AJAX Library package contains the complete set of client JavaScript components that are included in the full ASP.NET AJAX installation. You may use and modify these scripts in your own applications. To simplify installation, the Microsoft AJAX Library package is available as a compressed (.zip) file.

You can download it yourself and see.

The "source available" (notice how carefully I worded that to avoid your assumption that it should be "open source" using your/RMS's definition) is mentioned on Scott Guthrie's blog

In addition to shipping the source code for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit controls, we are also releasing all of the source code for the fully supported ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 release. Specifically:

We are releasing the client-side ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript library (which we also call the "Microsoft AJAX Library") under the Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL). This grants developers the right to freely customize/modify the library, as well as to redistribute the derivative versions of the JavaScript library for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

To help with debugging and development, we are also releasing all of the source code for the server-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 implementation (including the UpdatePanel, UpdateProgress, ScriptManager, and Network Serialization code) under the Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RL).

Being granted "the right to freely customize/modify the library, as well as to redistribute the derivative versions of the JavaScript library for both commercial and non-commercial purposes" is pretty "open", despite not being released under the GPL. Heck it's almost a BSD license. It's certainly the least restrictive of the MS source licenses, they just haven't submitted it to the OSI for approval (and really, can you blame them?). It was written with the OSD in mind.

Actually MySpace runs on .NET - Handling 1.5 Billion Page Views Per Day Using ASP.NET 2.0

Apparently the move to ASP.NET went quite well with CPU usage dropping from 85% to 27% according to that post.

Until you bust out Haskell# or Lisp#. There are plenty of languages that run on the .NET framework and on the Java virtual machine.

WPF/E

I'm not sure about Perl, but the developers (, developers, developers) at MSFT are doing really cool stuff with .NET, like LINQ. ASP.NET is going to support interpreted languages. Ability to integrate a functional language with languages like C# promises to be quite cool. Of course, who knows if you'll actually get to use any of this cool stuff.

After many months of using various AJAX libraries, I watched the Scott Guthrie Introduction to Atlas video. (You can get to it from http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid =63#atlas, and was astounded at how much easier it makes it.

No more having to come up with all kinds of weird JavaScript to do the simplest things. Throw a few normal controls inside of an UpdatePanel, set your triggers, and you've suddenly got a much more responsive web app.

The whole ScriptManager makes it insanely faster to create AJAX apps, no mucking with JavaScript at all. And the JavaScript emitted by the script manager automatically adapts to the browser you are on, FireFox or IE. Surprisingly, being a Microsoft product, some of it actually works better on FireFox. That was a big surprise.

Now I'm just waiting for the actual release. Don't want to get too far into a project with the CTP version, cause you know _something_ will change between the CTP and the actual release.

I'll probably get fried for saying it here, but Microsoft has done a very good thing here.

just get .net 2.0 and atlas

The ongoing war against PHP by the GNAA has finally produced results that are a step in the right direction. GNAA have been aggressively involved in a campaign to educate the public at large about the tremendous control that MOSSAD has over the development of PHP and the subsequent clandestine information gathering technology that has been implemented by Jewish developers.

The co-founders of Zend, the PHP Company, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are known Israeli MOSSAD agents; they were recruited by MOSSAD during their formative years at the Israel Institute of Technology.

On Friday, 28 July 2006, Jani Taskinen, aka _sniper_ resigned from the PHP development team.

<_sniper_> FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you Jews. <_sniper_> I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it. <_sniper_> Good bye.

This was a direct result of the ongoing war against Hezbollah which has been backed by the USA and primarily been driven by the information gathering technologies embedded in PHP by Zend.

Several GNAA members who were also part of the PHP development team have also resigned in solidarity with Jani Taskinen.

timecop, the glorious president of the GNAA has reacted in the wake of these events by extending an invitation of honorary lifetime GNAA membership to _sniper_, for having courage in his convictions.

GNAA official website, located at http://www.gnaa.us/ is powered by Microsoft Internet Information Services and ASP.NET, running on INTEL hardware.

About Zend

Zend is an Israeli funded body that is controlled by MOSSAD.

About PHP

Crap.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

If you ar

I saw this article on Digg a while back, using an ingenous JavaScript that would look at the *rendering* of a link to determine if you'd been there or not (and possibly upload this information to the remote server). That's kinda scary...

I ignore all of the features that you claim it has because they are of no use to me. Why? Because they're no use to me when I can't even write from Mac or Linux.

So that means it doesn't exist? Sorry, no. You fail to realize that MS isn't in business making a file system; they're in business to make an OS. The FS is just one of the features of that OS.

I'm sure NTFS is just wonderful, but forgive me for not liking it because of Microsoft's arrogance towards interoperability.

Funny, I think its arrogant to think that they should give a rat's ass about less than 1% of the market. Honestly, what do they have to gain? Your good will? Not likely; you'd find other reasons to hate them while using their FS, should they open the specs. Its attitudes like yours that kills software, closed or open.

ATLAS also automates AJAX development.

The last part of this video shows an asp.net web page being AJAX enables (although ATLAS is not asp.net specific).

There's a great blog entry about the automated testing done by the ASP.NET Team at Redmond....

Impi - Diplomatic Corp, South Africa

The ongoing war against PHP by the GNAA has finally produced results that are a step in the right direction. GNAA have been aggressively involved in a campaign to educate the public at large about the tremendous control that MOSSAD has over the development of PHP and the subsequent clandestine information gathering technology that has been implemented by Jewish developers.

The co-founders of Zend, the PHP Company, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are known Israeli MOSSAD agents; they were recruited by MOSSAD during their formative years at the Israel Institute of Technology.

On Friday, 28 July 2006, Jani Taskinen, aka _sniper_ resigned from the PHP development team. FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you Jews. I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Good bye.

This was a direct result of the ongoing war against Hezbollah which has been backed by the USA and primarily been driven by the information gathering technologies embedded in PHP by Zend.

Several GNAA members who were also part of the PHP development team have also resigned in solidarity with Jani Taskinen.

timecop, the glorious president of the GNAA has reacted in the wake of these events by extending an invitation of honorary lifetime GNAA membership to _sniper_, for having courage in his convictions.

GNAA official website, located at http://www.gnaa.us/ is powered by Microsoft Internet Information Services and ASP.NET, running on INTEL hardware.

About Zend

Zend is an Israeli funded body that is controlled by MOSSAD.

About PHP

Crap.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

Impi - Diplomatic Corp, South Africa

The ongoing war against PHP by the GNAA has finally produced results that are a step in the right direction. GNAA have been aggressively involved in a campaign to educate the public at large about the tremendous control that MOSSAD has over the development of PHP and the subsequent clandestine information gathering technology that has been implemented by Jewish developers.

The co-founders of Zend, the PHP Company, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are known Israeli MOSSAD agents; they were recruited by MOSSAD during their formative years at the Israel Institute of Technology.

On Friday, 28 July 2006, Jani Taskinen, aka _sniper_ resigned from the PHP development team. FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you Jews. I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Good bye.

This was a direct result of the ongoing war against Hezbollah which has been backed by the USA and primarily been driven by the information gathering technologies embedded in PHP by Zend.

Several GNAA members who were also part of the PHP development team have also resigned in solidarity with Jani Taskinen.

timecop, the glorious president of the GNAA has reacted in the wake of these events by extending an invitation of honorary lifetime GNAA membership to _sniper_, for having courage in his convictions.

GNAA official website, located at http://www.gnaa.us/ is powered by Microsoft Internet Information Services and ASP.NET, running on INTEL hardware.

About Zend

Zend is an Israeli funded body that is controlled by MOSSAD.

About PHP

Crap.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your know

Agreed.

However, in my case it's not applicable. Maybe I should have clarified from the start that I'm working on an RSS Reader (a SharePoint web part derived from this one). So my content comes from feeds, not a database.

Impi - Diplomatic Corp, South Africa

The ongoing war against PHP by the GNAA has finally produced results that are a step in the right direction. GNAA have been aggressively involved in a campaign to educate the public at large about the tremendous control that MOSSAD has over the development of PHP and the subsequent clandestine information gathering technology that has been implemented by Jewish developers.

The co-founders of Zend, the PHP Company, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are known Israeli MOSSAD agents; they were recruited by MOSSAD during their formative years at the Israel Institute of Technology.

On Friday, 28 July 2006, Jani Taskinen, aka _sniper_ resigned from the PHP development team. FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you Jews. I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Good bye.

This was a direct result of the ongoing war against Hezbollah which has been backed by the USA and primarily been driven by the information gathering technologies embedded in PHP by Zend.

Several GNAA members who were also part of the PHP development team have also resigned in solidarity with Jani Taskinen.

timecop, the glorious president of the GNAA has reacted in the wake of these events by extending an invitation of honorary lifetime GNAA membership to _sniper_, for having courage in his convictions.

GNAA official website, located at http://www.gnaa.us/ is powered by Microsoft Internet Information Services and ASP.NET, running on INTEL hardware.

About Zend

Zend is an Israeli funded body that is controlled by MOSSAD.

About PHP

Crap.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

I would never describe myself as a graphic artist so I will neither agree nor disagree with you.

However, for the web impaired here is a direct link for the web developer version only (which you can get to by clicking the big download picture on the right hand side of each product specific page and then clicking "Download" in step 2).

And as long as I am providing overly simple instructions to trolls, I guess I'll point out that ATLAS does not come installed with Visual Studio. You have to download it from atlas.asp.net (hint: there is a big download icon at the top of the screen).

And if you would like a demo of how easy it is to create ajax applications with atlas, there is current a video on the front page of someone creating a database backed todo-list application in 18 minutes (the express version of Visual Studio comes with a lightweight database and web server for development. I think you can probably repeat this demo with the free tools).

Impi - Diplomatic Corp, South Africa

The ongoing war against PHP by the GNAA has finally produced results that are a step in the right direction. GNAA have been aggressively involved in a campaign to educate the public at large about the tremendous control that MOSSAD has over the development of PHP and the subsequent clandestine information gathering technology that has been implemented by Jewish developers.

The co-founders of Zend, the PHP Company, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans are known Israeli MOSSAD agents; they were recruited by MOSSAD during their formative years at the Israel Institute of Technology.

On Friday, 28 July 2006, Jani Taskinen, aka _sniper_ resigned from the PHP development team. FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you Jews. I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Good bye.

This was a direct result of the ongoing war against Hezbollah which has been backed by the USA and primarily been driven by the information gathering technologies embedded in PHP by Zend.

Several GNAA members who were also part of the PHP development team have also resigned in solidarity with Jani Taskinen.

timecop, the glorious president of the GNAA has reacted in the wake of these events by extending an invitation of honorary lifetime GNAA membership to _sniper_, for having courage in his convictions.

GNAA official website, located at http://www.gnaa.us/ is powered by Microsoft Internet Information Services and ASP.NET, running on INTEL hardware.

About Zend

Zend is an Israeli funded body that is controlled by MOSSAD.

About PHP

Crap.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
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But the part that makes me happy is that MySpace runs on ColdFusion.

You can always start here. The best source for tutorials is google. ;-) Download the Visual Web Developer express for free. It might be the only Visual Studio that you ever need to develop .net web apps and web services. A lot of app wizards use SQL Server by default. If you are lazy like me you will be tempted to use them. I recommend not doing that. There are drivers for postgresql, mysql and just about everything else out there.

Some nice things that might help you out AFTER you've gotten your feet wet:
1. Data layer code generation with Mygeneration and dOOdads. http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com/
2. Well defined (clean) URLs: http://metasapiens.com/PageMethods/
3. Ajax (What you want is the UpdatePanel): http://atlas.asp.net/

The best advice that I can give you to make the transition is to think in terms of applications instead of scripts. That might not make sense now but eventually it will be obvious. And always use code-behind.

If you need any specific advice you can email me at my username at gmail. Helping each other is what the slashdot community should be about. :-)

You can always start here. The best source for tutorials is google. ;-) Download the Visual Web Developer express for free. It might be the only Visual Studio that you ever need to develop .net web apps and web services. A lot of app wizards use SQL Server by default. If you are lazy like me you will be tempted to use them. I recommend not doing that. There are drivers for postgresql, mysql and just about everything else out there.

Some nice things that might help you out AFTER you've gotten your feet wet:
1. Data layer code generation with Mygeneration and dOOdads. http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com/
2. Well defined (clean) URLs: http://metasapiens.com/PageMethods/
3. Ajax (What you want is the UpdatePanel): http://atlas.asp.net/

The best advice that I can give you to make the transition is to think in terms of applications instead of scripts. That might not make sense now but eventually it will be obvious. And always use code-behind.

If you need any specific advice you can email me at my username at gmail. Helping each other is what the slashdot community should be about. :-)

Unrelatedly, I heard a random statistic that said that some asinine percentage of the net's streaming video traffic was due to Myspace. I brushed it off, as, well, that's a sortof silly thing to take to heart, but I wonder if there's any truth to it.

Serve 1.5 billion page views per day with craptacular homepages rife with videos and you're very likely to have a significant percentage of the streaming video traffic.

I've heard that myspace is migrating their servers from an old CF platform to CFMX and CFMX7.

AFAIK they're migrating to straight up ASP.NET 2.0.

As for bugs on Myspace, I wouldn't know. I think I'm over the age limit for frequent myspace use by about 17 years.

you can guess who it's for.

ScottGu's Blog: Handling 1.5 Billion Page views per day using ASP.NET-2.0

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The .NET Framework does not currently have Ajax enabled features intrinsicly built in, but Microsoft does have a project in developement to enable your ASP.NET applications with Ajax capabilities - Atlas.NET http://atlas.asp.net/