Like spoon feeding water to a man who has walked the desert for more than a year, news about IE8 has been slow to come, but Chris Wilson and Dean Hachamovitch cracked open the flood gates a bit today by announcing that IE8 has been able to pass the Acid2 test (yay!!!). For developers this represents a huge step forward for IE and is hopefully the beginning of it coming more into line with the other more standards compliant browsers out there. Both the blog post on IEBlog and the Channel9 video do ......
The Philly .NET User Group has announced their 2008 Code Camp schedule. These hugely popular (and FREE!) conferences normally fill up very quickly, but this year, the User Group is partnering with DeVry university, which is going to allow them to host much larger conferences, with the first conference in January scheduled for 8 tracks and 48 sessions. Registration opens on December 15, and I believe if you register on the Philly.NET web site, you can choose to be notified when the registration opens, ......
ScottGu and Brad Abrams have announced the release of the first preview of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions. The release includes great new features like: MVC Framework ASP.NET Silverlight controls AJAX Enhancements like History support Dynamic Data Controls Entity Framework ADO.NET Data Services Grab it from here: ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Also available is the MVCToolkit (courtesy of Rob Conery) which contains a bunch of helper extension methods you can use in your Views. You can get it here: MVC Toolkit ......