i don't know how many of you have heard about the new ASP.NET control that Microsoft has release.

I'm very excited about this control and I've decided to start this weekend a series of tutorials on how to use it.

I've heard many things about AOL RIA email client but never try it until now.

I was very very surprised to find out that it looks very nice and a very important thing: it runs very smothly.

Right now I'm thinking ver well at changing from gmail to AOL RIA.

If you want to test it try it here

Today Apple has released another 2 new ads.

The first one is really funny when Mr. PC guy is trying to divide the budget for Vista management.

The second one is not very good but...eh...:)

I think that almost every programmer found out about the new advertising Windows campaign MSFT is making with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates.

It seems that with this marketing campaign ($300 million) MSFT is trying to compete with another successful campaign made by Apple - Mac vs. PC. From the entire marketing budget Seinfeld will receive only $10 million, as anonymous resources have mentioned. 

The Windows campaign debuted with the first ad on Sept 04 and until now they already came out with two ads which you can see below.

First one........

Second one...........

Personally I like the second one.

•  size: 4.6 MB
•  it doesn't require .NET Framework to be installed

•  WPF UI Framework
•  Rich Controls
•  Rich Networking Support
•  Rich Media Support

Well, who can tell MSFT guys don't have imagination?!

That's a great video..

P-D-C, two thousand eight
Windows 7 is coming and I can't wait.
The desktop and taskbar will integrate,
Wrap your windows around me.

...............................................

You turn me on, with your graphics and text
I get so excited when I think about where you'll take me next
I'm gonna leave with my developer guide
And tons of Windows content on a hundred sixty gigabyte drive!

I've seen this video on http://desspina.com/.

Nice one, nice one. Now I'm trying to choose my best 5 friends in order to send this.

So guys...YOU SHOULD VOTE

Is a very well known the battler between Google and MSFT in technology area. Reading some stuff on the internet I was attracted a little bit by how big companies deal with this economy crises.

For my surprised I found out this graphic which says a lot about how a great company such as MSFT can deal with the crises compared with a "moment company" such as Google.

 

The above chart shows how MSFT and Google were successfully during the period 10/01/2007 and 9/29/2008. The entire chart can be found here

Indeed the share price for Google is much bigger than MSFT share price, but this is not the point here. The point is the way 2 big companies are facing the a big economy problem.

Don't you love ASP.NET programming?...well you have to love it...specially when you have to do a deployment in 30 min (more than you need).

That happened to me today, when trying to do a milestone deployment.

Everything went great until...ups....started to have problems with telerik controls...

Well...after 20 minutes of research and trying to find out why a request to WebResources.axd was falling everytime finally got the error message:

Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.
Parameter name: utcDate

The reason of this error consinst in te fact that I was making a deployment on a server with assemblies compiled on a machine that had the clock time bigger than the server's.

In case you get this error try to recompile the application on a machine that has the time smaller than the deployment server time.

Well...I've just lost 30 minutes with this deployment