Join the Iranian Guard. Boost your .NET Productivity! Our friend Keyvan Nayyeri who lives in Tehran and currently serves in the Iranian Military is on a productivity tear! Very impressive output from this young man. His new Wrox book titled Visual Studio Extensibility is now available on Amazon, and I'm very much looking forward to the final installment of Keyvan's four part ASPAlliance "Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ" article. These kids today. When I was in the Army back in the 70's we listened to rock-n-roll real loud and did a lot of heavy drugs to pass the time.
Tooltips are righteous. I like the AJAX Tooltip extender control CJ de Vos blogs about. Community Server has a sweet little HelpToolTip control that I've customized for my dbvt.com blog home pages and describe here, but you can't focus on it and do other cool things with it like you can this AJAX tooltip extender.
That's a lot of pills, man. Ray Kurzweil is a pop culture icon. He's a brilliant inventor and futurist whose Singularity is Near is a must-read. I re-listened to two Ray Kurzweil podcasts on the drive back from Code Camp on Sunday and enjoyed them immensely. Kurzweil, who is 60, wants to be around to enjoy the benefits of the Singularity when it hits. Check out the pills this guys takes every day. And I thought 4 pills a day to control my cholesterol and blood pressure were a lot.
Chat isn't just for Gen-X'ers anymore. I hate chat on general principle. It makes no sense to me, since picking up the phone is more efficient 90% of the time. I had to install Microsoft Live Messenger when I was with Telligent but I haven't used it since. Well, I did use it once with Keyvan to walk through an IIS setup issue, and it was great for that, but that was the only time in the past year. I was setting up an IRA online at TD Ameritrade the other day and had questions. Who's supposed to understand that stuff, anyway? They provided a Chat feature and it was fantastic! By fantastic I mean extremely helpful and something which gives me incentive to do more business with TD Ameritrade in the future.
Creative RSS Feed icons. Check out the creative RSS Feed icons on this Smashing Magazine article. We developers do need our artistic friends.
Congrats to the Jayhawks. March Madness ended for me Saturday night when North Carolina lost to Kansas. I didn't even watch Monday's game. I follow teams, not sports, and my teams are North Carolina in NCAA basketball and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Kansas fans must be on top of the world today, beating Roy Williams and now Memphis. Good for them. I loved a quote from a Kansas fan after Saturday's game, something like, "Now Carolina can deal with what Williams always did at Kansas, get to the big game and then choke." Bill Self definitely out-coached Williams and deserves the accolades he's receiving. Congrats Jayhawks!