Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - Posts

ASP.Net Articles

Over the Christmas Holidays you may find some time to do some reading, so I would like to suggest three good articles in MSDN Magazine.

ASP.NET: 10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications
Rob Howard

Wicked Code: Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0
Jeff Prosise
Cutting Edge: A Quick Tour of Themes in ASP.NET 2.0
Dino Esposito

I've attended workshops taught by Rob, Jeff and Dino, all three are brilliant, generous and helpful to anyone who wants to learn about ASP.Net. Their blogs are listed in my blogs of influence so you can follow their projects and contact them with questions.

Google Graphic ads

AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads  As of today Google is changing from just text based ads to full graphic photos and logos ads. Last week we heard about the deal with Time Warner, a company that has been selling graphic photo and logo ads for decades, now we are learning the details. Remember that it was Time Warner who inundated us with those FREE CD's offering three months of FREE America On Line and that was long before the accusation slash merger of AOL Time Warner Google.

Ads are getting in the way of my life on the Internet. The NYTimes is now disrupting my reading with unavoidable full screan thirty second ads. CMP Media has placed flashy banners that distract my readers on this blog! I place simple text ad links at the botton of each post, because so many sites are syndicating my feed and sticking their Google ads beside it. I can't stop them, so I include ads now for .........