Web 2.0

I will be presenting September 17, 2008 at Philly .NET User Group Meeting. My talk will be on: Creating a modern, web 2.0, application with MVC and jQuery with a focus on doing this in a RESTful manor. My goal is for the developers in attendance to learn how to create a RESTful website design using MVC and implement that RESTful design on the front end with some simple jQuery. These principals will be demonstrated by creating a simple Twitter like application for sharing messages. All the source code will be available via my website at http://www.coderjournal.com after the presentation. ...

I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look and feel in my opinion and seems to work very well for an early beta. Jeff Atwood deserves major kudos. However I have had one plaguing question? Is stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site? I started thinking about this question a couple days ago, because as many of you know I have my own project, that isn’t much different functionality wise than stack overflow. As I started cataloging everything that a Web 2.0 site is suppose to consist of, the more I asked the question what is a Web 2.0 site, and is stackoverflow.com really one? ...

As I alluded in a post a couple of weeks ago, I have been a bad blogger. And I have neglected my community of readers. However I would like to tell you what I have been doing in the last couple of months while I have been neglecting my blog. I recently got involved in creating a startup as the lead developer for an online classifieds site called Anything For Sale By Owner. From the ground up this was conceived as a middle-ground between craigslist and ebay where every listing would be charged at a static rate of $1.00/month. The $1.00 is a way to week out the crap from craigslist and the death-by-fees from ebay. ...

This made me laugh so hard that I just had to share it. You don’t really realize just how juvenile some people until you can see and hear it.

Recently I have been diving in to the world of REST and all the great things that come along with that. If you are not familiar with REST and what it means to have a REST Web Service for your site, you can go through the Digg API, which should give you a pretty good idea. My company has been contracted to build the framework for a new Web 2.0 initiative of one of our clients. You cannot do Web 2.0 if you are not using some kind of AJAX/REST combination. ...

Recently I have started seeing this number repeated over and over again on the net. You may be asking what it represents and why it is so important. Well this number is one of the worst kept secrets of the MPAA. This 32 character 16 bit number is the key used to descramble data on HD-DVD disc’s. I have seen it wrote many different ways: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 {09F91102-9D74-E35B-D841-56C5635688C0} ...