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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 - Released

In case you missed it, MS AJAX 1.0 is now released. Now you can play for real :) Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details. Or if you want to go strait for the download, you'll find it at ajax.asp.net.

Ajax | Microsoft | Web

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:50:31 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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MSDN Live in Bergen

Don't forget to register for MSDN Live in Bergen 13. February! It's no surprise that Ajax and IIS 7 attract a lot of people to this event, so register now before it's full. You don't want to become the guy, who wasn't there, would you? ;) You can even pick up some Tips & Tricks for VS 2005. If this Tips & Tricks session is the same as at TechEd, you'll have to see it!

Ajax | Events | IIS | Microsoft | VisualStudio

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:37:07 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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Friday, December 15, 2006

Asp.net AJAX RC and Visual Studio 2005 SP1

During the day I found two new releases. Asp.net Ajax RC is out (http://ajax.asp.net/) and Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is released (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/vs2005sp1/default.aspx). I vote for Monday releases, so we can get paid testing them. Since I can’t keep my hands off these two, my weekend is ruined! :) Enjoy!

Update: You might want to have a look at Scott Guthrie’s blog before running the installation. He has some tips you should have a look at. Both for pre Vista and Vista operation systems. You'll find his post on vs sp1 here and vista here.

.Net | Ajax | Web | VisualStudio

Friday, December 15, 2006 1:00:00 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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Web2.0 confusion

There has been a lot of confusion around web2.0. Who’s better to reduce this confusion than Martin Fowler! Check out his latest blog post about this topic. I especially found this interesting:

"A common misconception I run into is that Web 2.0 is all new stuff. Most of the ideas under Web 2.0 are actually quite old and have been used on the web from early on, for instance Amazon's community or the use of Wikis. The point is that then they were the minority. The Web 2.0 shift is about the principles that were used by a few in the 90's becoming the majority in the future."

And just to clarify even further, Web 2.0 is not a product; you cannot buy it in any store! :)

.Net | Ajax | Web

Friday, December 15, 2006 1:00:00 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

ASP.Net AJAX Beta 1 (codename ATLAS) was released on Friday!

Scott Guthrie (General Manager at Microsoft Developer Division) writes in his blog that ASP.Net AJAX Beta 1 was released on Friday! If you want to download go here, for more information go to http://ajax.asp.net/ or se Scott’s blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/.

I have not done any real development in any language supporting the AJAX phenomenon yet, so I’m really excited to get started and see what all the fuzz is about.

.Net | Ajax | Web

Sunday, October 22, 2006 1:00:00 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

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Hi, I'm Jon Arild Tørresdal. I’m an Architect for the Norwegian insurance company Frende Forsikring, chapter Lead of Norwegian .Net User Group (NNUG) in Bergen and .NET editor for InfoQ. I've been coding professionally since 1998 and on .NET since 1999. I'm an early adapter always looking for new ways to put technology to use for the company I work for, at NNUG or just as an excuse to do some coding at home.

I’m a great fan of Agile practices like XP, Scrum, Kanban and Lean. My first experience with Agile was in 2006, when I introduced Scrum to CMA Contiki (my former employer), which was a great success. Later I found the lack of engineering practices in Scrum pulled me closer to Extreme Programming. I’m constantly trying to motivate developers, testers and other agile team members to adapt the Agile way of thinking to improve the overall quality of software delivery. My motivation for studying these practices is to constantly improve the way I and others work in my organization; both by having fun and adding value to our customers.

I’m also a speaker, focusing on engineering practices (clean code), Agile and best practices (often represented in forms of patterns). At work I often find myself doing presentations on technologies we're about to adapt or how to improve our agile process.

Except from work I am married to my beautiful wife, Gry Helene and we live together with our son Jesper. I love good food and wine, especially red wine from northern Italy. I'm trying to start a collection without any great luck so far :-)

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