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I have been talking to Phil and Ollie about forming a UK developers discussion group. We want to build a group for discussion, networking, chatting, mutual-help and general “stuff” to build and grow the community in the UK.

If you want to take part in building the group, mailto:aspuk-subscribe@realworldasp.net to join our preliminary list and make yourself heard! Also, please do pass on the link to anyone you think might be interested.

The group will be for people involved in web developing on Microsoft (or derived) platforms, so that could be .NET’ers, ASP’ers or even folk working on Chilisoft or Mono – all welcome. Be nice if we can build up a real friendly list and perhaps meet in the real world every now and then?

Please tell us what you think 🙂

 

Ho ho

http://mistupid.com/people/page055.htm

 

Here is a sneak preview of my latest ASPAlliance article – how to set image quality by setting JPEG compression level with GDI+

http://www.aspalliance.com/chrisg/default.asp?article=157

 

A couple of bloggers have mentioned the division between OO clued up coders and VB’ers. I would just like to point out that

• Everyone has to learn somewhere/when
• A communication breakdown is the fault of BOTH parties, assuming someone is too thick to “get it” could mean you are too thick to explain it 😉

If they dont know, teach them!

 

More figures about the uk new media scene look gloomy and more and more companies are outsourcing to india. Who would want to be a developer right now? :O(

 

C#, then J# .. now X#?? http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/1,4248,766199,00.asp

“around 1% of internet sites using ASP.Net are Linux based, but it is early days both for the Mono project and for .Net itself, and both will be hoping to grow very significantly from current levels. ” – Cool! http://www.netcraft.com/survey/

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021209.html Jakob Nielsen on Harry Potter

http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/ “97% of your DNA is commented out. DNA is linear and read from start to end. The parts that should not be decoded are marked very clearly, much like C comments. The 3% that is used directly form the so called ‘exons’. The comments, that come ‘inbetween’ are called ‘introns’. ..” … puts a new meaning to Windows DNA

Some giggles for people into games http://www.uncleclive.co.uk/