My lovely new vaude bag arrived in the mail today, nice and roomy, with a removable laptop shell, perfect for taking a macbook and my d50 to various conferences and generally out and about.
Working on an asp.net microformats implementation that I reckon might be useful at work, if not I may just release the code here for folks to tinker with.
Now back to 24 season 5…..
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Spent a good chunk of this weekend playing with the Django web framework, it’s frankly the best web app creation framework I’ve ever used. I love the use of a url configuration file to make requests to a db and serve out a page, as opposed to the old method of rolling code into physical files. This just feels so much cleaner than a server cluttered with asp and php files.
I’m working on transferring this blog over to Django from wordpress/php, so far I’ve worked on it for about 2 hours and I’m almost done, thanks to Django’s wonderful admin suite which is built as you create your application. As I say, it’s an amazing platform. I’ll be using this opportunity to work on properly working with Microformats and better integration with the RSS feeds provided by the other services I subscribe to…oh it’s going to be awesome fun!
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Just something I’ve noticed with the Asp.Net label control that a few developers don’t seem to have when I check the source code.
In the attempt to make Visual Studio web development more like Application development, text can be added to a page by developers using a label control, which renders out a span tag with a custom id created at runtime. I want to stress, that these aren’t required everywhere you want text…the amount of asp.net apps I’ve seen online that over-use this element is just crazy, it clutters up source code and will no doubt bloat your build time.
The other thing is when you’re developing forms, please add a label with AssociatedControlID before each form element, this makes the label render out as an html label element for the text box, it’s just good mark up folks.
Minor quibbles as I say. The major ones are to do with the compilation and deployment of .Net websites as a bin library of dll files, which is a nightmare when you just need to do minor changes, you need to upload the entire site every time. I really need to look up a solution for that.
So it’s conference booking time for me at work, so far I’m liking the look of the local Highland Fling day on Progressive Enhancement, lots of great speakers there, also of course @Media 2007 looks really interesting, couldn’t quite come up with a good reason to go to the San Fransisco one rather than London other than “San Fransisco would be awesome” but London looks ace too, in particular I’m looking forward to the Microformats session as I think we could benefit from using these practices at work and the Javascript session because I love javascript basically.
We’ve also got an in house workshop with Andy Clarke lined up to help the troops work with structural markup, css and design theory, should be awesome.
Playing around with the new K2 on my dummy blog, love the widgets features, might spend some time this weekend migrating this site over to the new version.
