Podcast – not that stupid!
I have heard about podcast for a long time and of cause knew what it was, but if you should be in doubt here goes:
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, a podcast is "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player," but the generally accepted definition has expanded to include video as well as audio. Originally derived from a combination of "broadcasting" and "iPod ™," the word was declared "word of the year" when it was added to the dictionary at the end of 2005.
I have never owned an Ipod untill I brought my iPhone 3G this summer. At that point I, sadly, HAD to install iTunes. As you all know iTunes is a virus on a PC, but if I wanted my iPhone 3G to work at all, I had no choice. Therefore iTunes got installed.
As I now were the owner of an “ipod”, formed as an iPhone, I could start look more into podcast. Actually it all started when I found the Sparkling Client – Silverlight podcast by searching for “silverlight” inside iTunes Store. I subscribed for the podcast and got them all on my iPhone 3G. On my way to work the next day, on my bike cycle, I started the first podcast. When I arrived at work 15 minutes later, I realized that I had actually learned something while doing something simple as riding my bike, which I do 25-30 min. two times a day(to and from work).
This is were it started to get very interesting for me. Instead of listening to Ozzy, Metallica, Plain White T’s etc. to and from work, I could now learn something real, while doing something trivial as riding my bike. When I say real, I mean something I can actually use at my job or on my hobby projects, and not just the “lastest news” and “weather” in the normal FM radio (which the iphone 3G actually don’t have :P).
So at this point I became wiser, times two. I learned that listening to podcast could actually give me some knowledge, while I’m doing other trivial things. I also learned something about templating in silverlight as Jesse Liberty were on this podcast :)
Nothing new
Yes, your right, this is nothing new and you all knew it all along. I know. I just learned that now and are now listening to podcast when I do the dishes, the laundry etc. Generally task that I don’t need to think to much about is great for listening to podcasts.
Great podcasts I enjoy at the moment
As already stated, I listen to the Sparkling Client – Silverlight podcast. This is the only podcast I have been able to find which is only about Silverlight. If you know others, please let me know.
Hanselsminutes Podcast is also a podcast I enjoy alot at the moment. It not only about silverlight, but generally interesting stuff for a developer. Besides that, these podcasts is actually very funny. It’s seems that Scott Hanselman is a funny guy by nature, which just makes it all much better. See for instance his BabeSmash session at PDC2008 which shows his own “Babysmash application” but also gives an overview of the .NET framework.
Remove WSDL from webservices
I have thought about this many times, but never had the time to make the research to find an solution.
The problem is that if you put an .asmx (web service) on a web server, it will as the default, be able to show the WSDL information to everybody. This isn’t of cause very good, as anyone then easily can see all methods in the web service. Of cause a web service is typically accessible from the public, as this is where it’s purpose to be used from. Anyways, it’s not good to show the WSDL, so I wanted to remove it.
All you need to do, is to add these lines to your web.config:
<? xmlversion="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<webServices>
<protocols>
<remove name="Documentation"/>
</protocols>
</webServices>
</system.web>
</configuration>
Read the rest of the article from where I found this here: http://www.15seconds.com/Issue/040609.htm
Set and good to go!
So this were the day that I got BlogEngine.Net up and running. I looked at the engine about a year ago, but skipped it again because I at that time just had setup my previous blog and couldn't over come to setup all the style and design again. I'm a programmer, not a designer :)
This week one of my colleages told me that he had downloaded the engine and said that it were so easy to setup and style. Today I had time to try it out and I most say that it is VERY easy to setup! I haven't even read any of te documentation or anything, just did what I guess were needed and it seems to work very well.
So the setup was easy, but what about the style?
Pretty fast I found the "themes" folder and saw the site.master. If you have worked with ASP.NET before, no further instructions are needed here. All you need it in the "themes/template-name" folder. Couldn't be easier.
So right now I'm a happy developer with a brand new blog.
DatamatikerOnline.dk version 2 - LINQ
[Sorry for this post being in danish. But it's about a danish page i'm creating at the time.]
Her er så en lille update fra fronten omkring version 2 af datamatikeronline :)
Webhotellet er blevet opdateret til .NET 3.5, hvilket betyder at der nu fx er åbnet op for brug af LINQ.
Konvertering til LINQ
Her i fredag konverterede jeg så hele datalaget til LINQ, dvs. LINQ to
SQL :) Og hold da op det er smart, og rigtig rigtig nemt! Tror jeg har
skrevet min sidste SQL sætning (krydser fingre :P).
Bruger RSS
På forsiden er der nu RSS feeds fra brugerne. Har ikke lige helt fundet
ud af hvordan dette skal være endeligt, menlige nu er det sådan at har
du en bruger på version 2, så kan du under "Rediger bruger" sætte din
blogs RSS/ATOM url og din seneste 5 blog posts vil så blive vidst på
forsiden. Som sagt dette er ikke sikkert at dette bliver den endelige
løsning.
Generelt
Jeg er lige pt lidt i delemma om hvor vidt jeg skal bruge det
indbyggede "Profile" system i ASP.NET til at holde en bruger
informationer som fx RSS url, skole osv. Eller om jeg skal lave form
for "udviddelse" til den user tabel ASP.NET laver. Denne fungere isig
selv fint, krypteret pass og en masse andet balade der som sådan
fungere fint. Problemet er at det indbyggede "Profile" system ikke
funger så sindsygt godt efter min mening. Fx når man henter en
"Profile-property" ud så opdatere den lige brugeren "LastActivityDate",
hvilket ikke er super smart, da bruger så ser ud som om han/hun er
online lige pt. Og så'n er der en masse ting, som jeg entenikke kan
finde ud af at bruge, eller som bare ikke rigtig fungere.
Det virker lidt som om det "Profile" system her, KUN er lavet til at
hente informationer om den aktuelle bruger, altså den bruger som er
logget ind. Det er nemlig også forholdvis besværligt at få fat i en
anden bruger Profile.
Men nok om det, det går fremad med version 2, så det er godt, ville bare lige give en heads up :)
DatamatikerOnline version 2
At the moment i'm working on version 2 of DatamatikerOnline.dk. I desided to rewrite it all my self, so I have full control of the page and write it in ASP.NET 2.0 as I work with everyday.
I'm making good progress and you can see the rewset version, while I develop it, here: http://dev.datamatikeronline.dk