Channel 9 - Discussions by TrainingTime

Coffeehouse - What is Expression Web?

TrainingTime — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:59:53 GMT

My understanding is that Expression Web is a tool for web designers to be able to work with the styles and layout of a page without a tool set specific for the task at hand. It doesn't include tools for maintaining a whole project because it's intended to produce just a layout (or individual web pages).

Having said that I never got it to work on my machine when I tried to install it (That was the beta though and I haven't tried since). So my understanding may be flawed.

Coffeehouse - What Types of Music Does Bill Gates Enjoy?

TrainingTime — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:56:19 GMT

I'm guessing MoneyBrother, or 50 Cent or perhaps "Money money money" by Abba. Perhaps he likes the big band sound of the Buddy Rich Band?

Tech Off - Sick of working as a phone monkey, I wanna code!

TrainingTime — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:05:33 GMT

Good for you man! When I started coding for the web at 23 years old some pople told me I was too old to be a coder. 14 years later I'm still coding and run my own company. It can be difficult to make the transition though, but with enthusiasm like that you should be able to do it.

The best thing that you can do is to teach yourself on some practical projects. I always find that it's way easier to learn a new coding language when I have a practical application to work through. Find something that's relatively simple, but that interests you in having for your own use. Then find tutorials and buy books that will help guide you through the basics and start putting together what you need. If you're a complete beginner to coding, then a basic introductory course or book would not be amiss as you'll need to get the base concepts down.

As regards which language is best, I'll leave that to the mobile experts as I specialise in web apps.

Good luck - I get a kick out of seeing people so ethusiastic about getting into coding.

Tech Off - DB Design--User-defined Fields

TrainingTime — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:50:24 GMT

Mattus is right - and I have used that sort of system before. But as he points out you will then also need a way for the user to save what each extra field is called.

I've used a system like Mattus' when I myself can customise the field names for each user's system. However if the user themselves should be able to add, name and remove fields for their application then I would definitely go with your original suggestion.

Coffeehouse - Any geeks from Norway here?

TrainingTime — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:42:54 GMT

I'm from just down the road in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Coffeehouse - What's Your Desktop Like? (Ver. 2)

TrainingTime — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:13:19 GMT

Love the map Lloyd_Humph. My wife even craned over from the other end of the sofa and asked "What's that you're looking at?". Fantastic!

Tech Off - Datagrid Navigation?

TrainingTime — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:28:17 GMT

You need to use button1.attributes.add("onClick", "Javascript code goes here") in the codebehind.

There's a good tutorial for this here: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/021104-1.aspx