Hope for America
Three times in two weeks, political speeches were watched by more people than the “American Idol” finale, the Academy Awards and the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics this year.
South Colorado .NET User Group - Tonight!
I’ll be speaking at the South Colorado .NET User Group tonight. If you’re in the area make sure and stop by! We’re going to be covering a LOT of Silverlight content. I’m looking forward to it!
You can get all of the meeting details and RSVP here.
See you then!
New Community Cast Episode… Silverlight on the Desktop
I just posted a new episode of CommunityCast.tv. It’s an interview with Joseph Hill, a good friend of mine that also happens to be the Product Manager of the Mono Project. If you watch the video all the way to the end you’ll see a couple of us giving Joseph a hard time for leaving the Dallas area and heading to Boston (to work for Mono).
Sharing AJAX… and other talks.
I’ve been trying out a couple of different ways to share presentations that I’ve given. You can see the result of SlideShare below. I like the social aspects of SlideShare (commenting, tagging, linking between decks), but I haven’t been happy with the way it handles transparencies or animations (it doesn’t).
I’ve posted the same deck as an XPS file on my SkyDrive. Which do you think is a better format? (you can grab the free XPS viewer from Microsoft)
While I’m at it… here are a bunch of my other talks in PPTX format on my SkyDrive.
Enjoy!
Top 10 Twitter Feature Requests
10. OpenID / OAuth Support. I know, I know… you guys are all over this, along with a better Jabber API, hCards and several other projects. Having worked on a couple of twitter applications it would be so nice to have OAuth… and as a user, OpenID would be very nice as well.
9. @Replies view in mobile Twitter. I don’t watch twitter all day, every day. Who does? So it makes it very nice to sit down and hit the "replies" view on the main web page to make sure that I haven’t missed anything that was specifically directed to me. When I’m on my mobile phone http://m.twitter.com is one of the best ways that I’ve found to use twitter. Its’ just very frustrating to not have a @replies view there! While we’re on the @replies topic… it would also be nice to include replies if your @name was mentioned anywhere in the response, not just first. (we’ll call that 9.2 ;) )
San Diego .NET User Group - July 22, 2008
One of the great things about speaking for INETA is traveling to places that I’ve never been before. July is going to be a little different for me. I was born in Southern California and grew up just an hour north of San Diego in a town called Temecula. (Except for 3 years when I lived in Okinawa)
We moved from Murrieta to Tulsa in 2001 and I haven’t been back to California since then. It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 7 years! Aside from the people and family that are in California there are only 3 things that I really miss. So I’m really looking forward to meeting up with my Dad and having a good lunch while I’m there.
If you are going to be in the San Diego area in July… make sure to stop by the .NET User Group and say hi! We might even go grab a bite to eat afterwards… if I used to know you in Southern California… send me an email: blogger[at]calebjenkins[dot]com.
The topic is still TBD, but it will probably be one of these:
- ASP.NET AJAX with Visual Studio 2008
- Silverlight with Visual Studio 2008 + Expression Blend
- Developer Designer Zen (bringing two world’s together)
- Better Application Design with practical loose coupling
What would you want the topic to be?
Twitter Getting Hacked?
I noticed this today while I was on Twitter.
UPDATE: As @MaggiePluPlus pointed out. This only seems to affect FireFox and not Internet Explorer… strange indeed!
I was on @Wally_G’s profile page when I first noticed it (and he’s a computer crime police type guy). You’ll notice that Chuck Olsen’s name appears instead of his twitter profile image. Also, notice that his name is taking up 3 spaces of images. I thought that maybe this was just some fluke, some twitter hick-up (I know, what are the odds of that!). So I checked
Using Windows Cardspace with OpenID
Are you using OpenID to log in anywhere? I use OpenID to access my blog, and a couple of other sites that I use. One of the down sides to OpenID is that it still relies on a Username / Password combination going over the Internet. I’ve started using MyOpenID’s implementation because they allow me to use an InfoCard to authenticate with their OpenID provider… or more specifically I use my Windows Vista CardSpace (CardSpace is .NET 3.0’s implementation of the open standard InfoCard).
In fact, without my info card… it’s impossible to use my (as in mine, my personal account) OpenID. I don’t have a username/password associated with my account at all. In addition to that, they have an automated process that calls my cell phone whenever I log in to the system. That may seem like a bit of overkill, but so far I’ve been happy with it.
Twitter Fountain
I found this widget today via the JuliaRoy blog. It took me a minute to figure out how to copy for your self (just click on the link in the widget itself that says "copy widget"). Yes, I can be slow sometimes. I’d love to see this sort of visualization done with Silverlight… or maybe even as a PopFly mashup.. (PopFly makes it *really* easy to create your own mash ups).
FIOS is nice.
I’ve had FIOS for over 2 years and love it. I’ve never actually tested the speed before, but I always noticed that pulling down ISO’s from MSDN was always faster from home than from the Microsoft Office, so I figured that it was pretty fast. 
Jim said something on Twitter that got me thinking about how fast is my FIOS actually? So I went to the C|net Bandwidth meter and tried it out. You can see the results… to be any faster I’d have to install a T3…. and I’m the only one on the network at my house. (nice!)
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