Since I've switched jobs, I've switched over to using a web-based RSS reader, NewsGator, and have also begun "flagging" good posts that I come across. The web based reader is nice, because I can flag the posts at work when I do most of my reading (while my code is compiling!), and then hopefully comment on or pass along those posts in the evenings at home when I've got the time to actually write blog entries. I'm liking it so far, much better than simply using a desktop-only RSS reader like SharpReader like I was previously.
Over the past few days, I've flagged quite a few interesting links, most pertaining to ASP.NET, with a mix of other goodness intertwined...
- CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters released - I remember a while back really wishing that the ASP.NET menu control didn't render itself with stupid tables. Well, control adapters are the answer, and aparently they allow for the menu to render itself as a simple set of UL's and LI's. Sweet.
- Using Eval() within ASP.NET ItemTemplates - Something I consistantly struggle with.. when and where exactly can I embed an Eval() statement into an ItemTemplate. Rick Strahl lays it all out.
- Atlas Control Toolkit is available - I know, this one was posted on 4/12/06, and I'm just getting around to noting it. I still do all of my AJAX stuff with AJAX.NET (Professional now), but these controls are making a pretty sweet case for taking a long hard look at the Atlas stuff. Especially the cascading dropdownlists. You should SEE the code that is in place on my current project to deal with this - think, non-AJAX. *Shudder*
- BackgroundWorker component - A great, simple, to-the-point overview of the wonderful .NET 2.0 BackgroundWorker component -- a must use for anyone winforms development.