Archive for December, 2006

ASP.NET AJAX Challenges (2006-12-23)

I’ve been playing with ASP.NET AJAX over the last several days, and I have to say that it’s very cool.  It can also be hugely frustrating. Here’s the scenario that wrapped me around the axle for a couple of hours tonight: First, I created a test web project in Visual Studio 2005 and built a [...]

New Shoes for the MINI (2006-12-4)

The MINI got new shoes today (this is the third set of tires on the car in its life). Here’s the history: Pirelli eufori@ Run-Flat (OEM) – Pretty good tires, but they wore really quickly.  By 20,000 miles they were done for.  One of the four had a persistent super-slow leak (it would take weeks [...]