Developing UX

 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   )

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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?

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

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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.

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).

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!)

We don’t watch a lot of TV at our house, but last night we just happened across “America’s Got Talent” I’ve never seen this show before. Most of the “acts” were just so-so, but I gotta say, this girl stole the show.

Maybe it’s because our Kaitlyn is also four, but I can definitely say that this girl is the *second* cutest 4 year old in the world. 

I mentioned the Dallas TechFest before, but what I failed to mention was that I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on "Building Communities" that was recorded for an episode of .NET Rocks! I know that I’m a little (ok, very) late mentioning this, but the episode is now live… you can listen to it here. Enjoy!

Just a quick note: I’ll be speaking at the Spokane .NET User Group tomorrow night covering ASP.NET AJAX with Visual Studio 2008.

This will be my first time in Spokane ever. I’m planning on driving over to see Lake Coeur D’Alene while I’m there too. I’ve heard so many nice thing about this area that I’m really looking forward to the couple of hours that I’ll be out there.

OK, I have to get up in 3 hours to make my *early* flight (a super, super early flight! ugh.. )

Anyways, if you’re in the area… stop by the User Group and say hi!

  Well.. not really *my* book. It’s not like I wrote it or anything like that. I was the technical editor on this new book, “Beginning C# 3.0: An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming” by Jack Purdum.

While most people that read this blog will probably not read the book (it’s targeted for _very_ new programmers), there was a ton that I learned while doing the book… but mostly about what it takes to work on a book. It takes a lot!

It also gave me a great appreciation for all of the authors, editors and publishers out there and the effort that they go through to bring us great titles.