I thought this story was a joke, until I read the whole thing. Only time will tell if this will be for better or worse, but I'm sure there will be many good things coming of this.

This is why DotNetKicks need to have some kind of Bury feature, so we can -1 kick this for sucking.

I don't know about a -1 kick, but it'd be nice to un-kick a story you've already kicked.

This is awesome and adds a really nice level of server-side scriptability to CSS.

I did find one issue with it however, it caches the CSS output and doesn't take the UserAgent into account. So, what happens is the first time the CSS file is generated, it caches it and returns to any request after it. This is an issue when you adding scripting that varies the CSS output depending on the users browser.

Freaking Awesome!

Some awesome tips!

This article was an interesting read. But, I do not agree that that fast paced change means an end to the one-programmer shop or solo application development.

On the contrary, I think this will bring much more opportunity to the one-programmer shops (it's a toss for the solo application development) to specialize in certain areas and excel in them above the rest.

And Solo application development will never end. The day solo application development becomes too hard, it the day it gets easier because someone or a group of devs will create more code generation apps. Any complexity can be simplified with a simple layer of abstraction.

Learning is on the list? Do they mean we need to learn how to learn? Odd....

You can install this app to play around with directly from Vertigos website via ClickOnce.

yesthatmcgurk: Scott Hanselman posted a "Why Ruby is the tits" post yesterday in response to your comment here.

http://dotnetkicks.com/other/What_you_re_not_getting_about_Ruby_and_why_it_s_the_tits

Same here...

I wonder why there aren't any articles like that?

Duplicate: http://dotnetkicks.com/winforms/URL_parameters_in_ClickOnce_applications

And they've adopted the same Free "Simple" Design Template (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336613.aspx) that I did for my blog (http://pietschsoft.com) when I created it a year and a half ago.

It disables Aero when on battery power. Then re-enables it when plugged back in.

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Windows.Forms;

using Microsoft.Win32;

namespace VistaLaptopBatterySaver
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
/*
* Copyright Clint Rutkas May 2007
*
*/
[DllImport(“dwmapi.dll”, PreserveSig = false)]
public static extern void DwmEnableComposition(bool bEnable);

[DllImport(“dwmapi.dll”, PreserveSig = false)]
public static extern bool DwmIsCompositionEnabled();

public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
enableToolStripMenuItem.Checked = DwmIsCompositionEnabled();
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
SystemEvents.PowerModeChanged += new PowerModeChangedEventHandler(SystemEvents_PowerModeChanged);
UpdatePowerInfo();
}

private void SystemEvents_PowerModeChanged(object sender, PowerModeChangedEventArgs e)
{
UpdatePowerInfo();
}

private void UpdatePowerInfo()
{
if (enableToolStripMenuItem.Checked)
{
PowerStatus ps = SystemInformation.PowerStatus;

DwmEnableComposition((ps.PowerLineStatus == PowerLineStatus.Online));
}
}

private void enableToolStripMenuItem_CheckStateChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
UpdatePowerInfo();
}

private void exitToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Close();
}

private static void aboutToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
AboutBox ab = new AboutBox();
ab.Show();
}
}
}

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