Battling the flu and early morning IIS install |
One thing that sucks about having kids is what they bring home from school. The flu is moving around right now and it wore me down yesterday and is kicking my butt today too. I’m still getting some things done though. Early this morning I setup IIS and ASP.net on my Tablet PC with my friend, Forser’s help. I’ve had Visual Studio there for some time, but chose not to install IIS locally. Rather than dig through documentation I asked one of my programmer friends. We documented the whole experience with pictures and hopefully will be sharing during this Friday’s radio show as I’m sure there are others who use Visual Studio but didn’t install IIS and ASP so they can work with these new gadgets.
One thing to those writing gadgets for Windows Live, don’t forget to add live.com to your trusted zones in IE. The instructions say “start.com” but they should also say “live.com.” That tripped us up for a minute.
The anti-M$ crowd has made an appearance already:
I wouldn’t write a “gadget” for your stupid web site if you put a gun to my head. Good luck conning some spotty teenagers to waste time on your lame-ass competition - you think any real programmer is going to enter? I’ll just buy one if I want one and I don’t.
Sorry, Sho, I’m a “real programmer” and I’m thinking of creating and contributing a few gadgets. Not because I want to win an Xbox 360 (I’ll be there buying at least one on launch day), but because I’d like to get familiar with the process. Most serious programmers I know aspire to keep expanding their knowledge and learning new things. That includes trying out these widgets, gadgets and new programming languages as they become popular, experimenting with APIs, etc.
Microsoft is a long way from dead.
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I’m with you brother. I had surgery on my nose last week, and now the boy brought home something that made me ill too. So a lot of head pain, because of nose reasons. Both from the surgery and the sickness.
Its not good I must say.
Comment by Shane — November 2, 2005 @ 4:24 pm PST
Hope you feel better, Shane, thanks for reading.
Comment by TDavid — November 2, 2005 @ 6:41 pm PST
Thanks, but its the 4th and it still has not gone away. Going to the docs today. The funniest thing is it took the boy just a little over 24 hours to get rid of this. Maybe its because I’m old (I’m 30)
Shane
Comment by Shane — November 4, 2005 @ 3:31 pm PST