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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Playing with the new gadgets that were released with the latest Zune web-site update. One thing I really like is that if you click an album or artist it'll show the tracks and if the Zune Marketplace has them available you can preview the music. It's a pretty cool way to see what others are listening to and get a quick sample, all without needing to have the Zune software installed. Here's the big version of mine:
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
I've been dabbling in the Ruby on Rails world for awhile and I've always been drawn to the very clean separation of the Model-View-Controller framework, something Rails pretty much nailed in their implementation. I've done a few small Rails sites here and there, played with it enough to be dangerous but I didn't use it enough in my daily life to really get it under my belt. At the same time I was doing a lot of ASP.NET work and felt like I was constantly fighting the WebForms architecture to get it to produce proper stateless standards-compliant web applications
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Sunday, December 02, 2007
While looking for some mellow music for a late night coding session that wouldn't disturb my wife I remembered an album I used to listen to quite a bit, 'Far Away Trains Passing By' by Ulrich Schnauss, and wondered if he had something new out for me to enjoy. Seems he's been busy since I first picked up that album in 2001 with at least four other releases so after listening to some samples I figured I'd pick up an album or two. I started first with Zune Marketplace which has become a viable option ever since they started