I am pleased to announce the formation of a new study group focusing on .Net technologies coming to the Denver DTC area.  The study group is a sub group of the Denver Visual Studio.Net User Group.  We will meet on the first and third Thursdays of the month during the lunch hours (11:30 to 12:30ish).  We will focus on a wide range of technologies that the .Net developer will be interested in learning.

Our first session will be on Thursday, June 17th (3rd Thursday of June).  For our fist few sessions, we will be diving into Asp.Net MVC 2.0.  Anyone is free to join us.  For more information, join the Denver Visual Studio.Net user group on LinkedIn (http://tinyurl.com/DVSUGonLinkedIn), and then join our Denver .Net Study Sub Group. 

Last week, MVC 2 was released, and like many ecstatic developers, I grabbed the bits right away and downloaded them.  First, however, I uninstalled all the MVC2 RC bits I had, including the tools for VS2008 and VS2010.  Then I installed RTM, and… came to realize that this release was for VS2008 only.  Ok, no biggie, I can wait till VS2010 RTMs to use the final MVC2 bits, so I uninstalled RTM and reinstalled RC.  However, the bits that includes all the templates and tooling for VS2010 is not included in the RC release, only the tools.  Phil Haack had a post about it here. 

So I needed to get the tools reinstalled.  I knew I could probably uninstall VS2010 and reinstall, but I wanted to avoid that if I could.  Fortunately, in the comment section from the above blog post, there was a quick solution that worked.  Simply run <dvd>\WCU\ASPNETMVC\VS2010ToolsMVC2.msi, and the tools will be reinstalled.  Yay for saving time.

I’ve decided I wanted to start keeping better track of my workouts, so I’m going to try to post weekly about my progress, so here goes the first post!

Sunday 2/28: Was hung over (physically, not through drinking) from the RM Tech Trifecta from the day before, so I decided to take the day off.

Monday 3/1: 30 mins on the Elliptical.  Was my first time doing the interval program on our new machine, and it was fun

Tuesday 3/2: Decided to repeat week 5 of Podrunners interval, starting with the second set this week.  Ran one 8 min segment at 6mi/hr pace, walked for 5, then ran another 8 mins at 5.5mi/hr pace.  My shins were really burning, which was weird since last week they felt fine.  Covered about 2.15 miles in 30 mins. The next day my shins were real sore.

Wednesday 3/3: Shoulder/back:

• Dumbell Shoulder Press
  • 12 X 40
  • 10 X 45lbs
  • 8 X 50lbs
  • 6 X 55lbs
  • 12 X 45lbs
  • Think I’m ready to move up weight by 5lbs here
• Lat Pulldown
  • 12 X 120lbs
  • 10 X 130lbs
  • 8 X 140lbs
  • 6 X 150lbs
  • 12 X 130lbs
• Ab workout on crunch machine + leg raises
• Front/Side Shoulder raises
  • 12 X 10lbs
  • 10 X 10lbs
  • 8 X 12lbs
  • 6 X 15lbs
  • 12 X 10lbx
  • Haven’t done this one in years.  It was much harder than I anticipated, and my shoulders burned afterwards
• Back machine that works the deltoids (need to find a better name for this one)
  • 12 X 50 lbs
  • 10 X 60 lbs
  • 8 X 70 lbs
  • 6 X 80 lbs
  • 12 X 60 lbs

Thursday 3/4: This is a usual running/leg weight day, but my shins were still sore from Tuesday, so I did 20 mins on the elliptical and then weights:

• Hip Sled
  • 3 X 135 lbs
• Calf Raise Machine
  • 3 X 115 lbs
• Lying Hamstring Curl Machine
  • 3 X 80 lbs
• Standing Calf Raises
  • 3 X 10

Was pretty sore in the calf and hamstrings after this one.

Friday 3/5: Usually a day off, but since I missed a day earlier my goal was to do elliptical today.  However, I was pretty sore from the day before, so I decided to take the day off

Saturday 3/6: Chest/Bis/Tris day:
This is my long day at the gym.  The weight workout itself is usually over an hour, but then I like to do some swimming and hottubing afterwards.

• Dumbell Bench Press
  • 12 X 65 lbs
  • 10 X 75 lbs
  • 8 X 85 lbs
  • 5 X 95 lbs
  • 12 X 75 lbs
  • I went up in weight this week on this exercise, and barely missed getting my heavy six in.  Hopefully in two weeks when I do this again I’ll hit it
• Isolated Bicep Curl
  • 12 X 20 lbs
  • 10 X 25 lbs
  • 8 X 30 lbs
  • 6 X 35 lbs
  • 3 X 40 lbs
  • 12 X 25 lbs
  • Definitely time to increase weight by 5 lbs on this one
• Bicep Pushdown machine
  • 12 X 70 lbs
  • 10 X 80 lbs
  • 8 X 90 lbs
  • 6 X 100 lbs
• Decline Bench Machine
  • 12 X 80 lbs
  • 10 X 90 lbs
  • 8 X 100 lbs
  • 6 X 110 lbs
  • 12 X 120 lbs
  • The heavy six and burn twelve sets were pretty tough here
• Preacher Barbell Curls (need to find out how much this bar weighs, will only report on actual weight on the bar until I find out):
  • 12 X 15 lbs
  • 10 X 20 lbs
  • 8 X 25 lbs
  • 6 X 30 lbs
  • 12 X 20 lbs
• Tricep Rope Push (name???)
  • 12 X 90 lbs
  • 10  X 100 lbs
  • 8 X 110 lbs
  • 6 X 120 lbs
  • 12 X 100 lbs
• Dips
  • 2 sets of 15 reps
• Swimming
  • 8 lengths

Thanks everyone who came to my jQuery talk today at the RM Tech Trifecta v2.0.  I had a great crowd of 51 people.  Unfortunately, I only got about 1/2 through my presentation before time ran out. My my, how fast 75 minutes can go when your having fun.  Below is a link to my slides and demos apps.  Feel free to download them and check it out!

Demos and Slides

The formatting of JavaScript in VS 2008 has finally drove me nuts.  Particularly, when pressing enter after a statement, the IDE will decrease the indent of the line above.  Why it does this makes no sense to me, but there is a way to get around it.

In VS2008, go to Tools>Options>Text Editor>JScript>Formatting.  Uncheck “Format completed line on Enter”.  This will keep the IDE from changing the formatting when adding new lines of code to a function/code block in JavaScript.

Last year was the first Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta, and it was a blast.  Nearly 400 developers, DBAs and IT admins descended into Denver and took part.  It is an all day code camp/server camp/PASS camp.  The event is happening again this year, Saturday February 27th.  I’ll be speaking again at this years event, this time on jQuery for .Net Developers.  Go to the site http://www.rmtechtrifecta.com and check out the schedule and register now!

I started getting this error out of the blue trying to startup VS 2010 tonight.  A quick bingle search lead me to the Microsoft Connect site where somebody has already filed it as a bug, and a quick workaround to get VS to start again was to run “devenv /resetuserdata” in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE directory.  The problem seems to stem from having a corrupted profile (at least it did for me), and running that command fixed the problem. 

If you are having this issue, give this a try, and head over to the Connect site and vote up the bug to get fixed.

Here is the demos that I will be using for my Talk tonight on jQuery.

Download

On Friday, October 23rd, I will be giving a hands on lab featuring an introduction to jQuery for the ASP.Net web forms developer:

“JQuery is an open source JavaScript library that can be used to build rich, interactive, client side applications. Recently, Microsoft has announced that jQuery will be integrated into both ASP.NET web forms and ASP.NET MVC frameworks, which means the time is now to become familiar with jQuery and discover how this powerful library can help your applications. In this lab, Ely will go over how to build interactive apps using the jQuery, especially geared towards the ASP.NET Web Forms programmer.”

The labs are a part of the Denver Visual Studio.Net user group, and are held the Friday before the user group meeting (which is the fourth Monday of every month).  There is no registration required, so feel free to stop by and gets some hands on love with jQuery.

Location:
LeaderQuest
6825 South Galena Street, Suite 100
Englewood, CO 80112
Phone: 303-832-4665, 877-660-4876, Fax: 303-768-0513
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Time:
Friday, October 23rd 2009, 7:00pm – 9:00pm.

For more information, visit the www.denvervisualstudio.net