# Monday, November 26, 2007

Rubio's Fish Tacos - Mmmmm

I love going to Phoenix for many reasons (of course family, etc) but a awesome fringe benefit is Rubio's.  I grew up in Southern California and love Baja style mexican food and a Rubio's fish taco does the trick. I went to their website and punched in New York City I got the following message:

There are no Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill locations matching your search criteria near New York City, New York


It would seem the closest Rubio's to me is just south of Denver (or 1,776 mi – about 1 day 3 hours driving).

At any rate, two Fish Tacos Especial hit the spot.

Food
Monday, November 26, 2007 6:35:13 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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JSLink.VS - JSLint add-in for Visual Studio

By Predrag Tomasevic.

Visual Studio Add-in that uses JSLint to verify JavaScript files that are part of Solution

I have yet to put this in and play with it.  But it looks like just what the doctor ordered.  I am still ramping up on JavaScript.  Hopefully between this for VS 2005 and the yet to be worked with Intellisense in VS 2008, I may have half a chance at moving up the learning curve quickly.

ASP.NET | JavaScript
Monday, November 26, 2007 2:35:19 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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A cool little quick and dirty CSS Layout Tool - Layout-o-Matic

Layout-o-Matic, A quick and dirty way to get a some HTML and CSS for you're desired layout. Sure, it's simple to do this yourself, but if you can get it for free in 60 seconds I'm all for it.

What you get:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php" />
    <style type="text/css">
        #container {
            width: 760px;
            \width: 780px;
            w\idth: 760px;
            border: 1px solid gray;
            margin: 10px;
            margin-left: auto;
            margin-right: auto;
            padding: 10px;
        }

        #banner {
            padding: 5px;
            margin-bottom: ;
            background-color: rgb(213, 219, 225);
        }

        #content {
            padding: 5px;
            margin-right: ;
            background-color: gray;
        }

        #sidebar-a {
            float: right;
            width: ;
            margin: 0;
            margin-left: ;
            padding: 5px;
            background-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);
        }

        #footer {
            clear: both;
            padding: 5px;
            margin-top: ;
            
            background-color: rgb(213, 219, 225);
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="container">
        <div id="banner">&nbsp;</div>

        <div id="sidebar-a">&nbsp;</div>

        <div id="content">&nbsp;</div>

        <div id="footer">&nbsp;</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Got this from the post The Best CSS Tools which seems to be a total regurgitation of stuff long seen before. I just like the look and name of Layout-O-Matic.

CSS
Monday, November 26, 2007 1:31:21 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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# Sunday, November 25, 2007

NYTimes travel to Seattle on the Cheap

All this makes me miss the food (beer / coffee / seafood / donuts) of Seattle.  6 plus years after leaving Seattle I still import all my coffee from there.

Frugal Traveler | Seattle
By MATT GROSS
Published: November 25, 2007
To the Frugal Traveler, no phrase is more inspiring than “happy hour.” In Seattle, those 60 minutes of joy have been elevated into evenings not only of cheap drinks but also of discount gourmet snacks at the classiest restaurants.

Drool

...Daily Dozen Donut Company for a sack of the signature treat ($2.10 for 12), fried up fresh before my eyes on a conveyor belt that bathed them in oil.

I've never really taken a look at the NYTimes travel guides.  I don't recognize most of the places on the list
Food | Seattle
Sunday, November 25, 2007 5:41:45 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Looks Like VS2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 have ben released

Scott Guthrie's blog has some details about the release.  I'm a bit behind on this one, but some of the highlights I keyed in on:

ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript Support

.NET 3.5 has ASP.NET AJAX built-in (no separate download required).  In addition to including all of the features in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, ASP.NET 3.5 also now includes richer support for UpdatePanels integrating with WebParts, ASP.NET AJAX integration with controls like <asp:menu> and <asp:treeview>, WCF support for JSON, and many other AJAX improvements.

VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 also now have great support for integrating JavaScript and AJAX into your applications.  You can learn more about this from my blog posts here:


My plan today is to see if I can't develop a basic Silverlight 1.1 application.  I have this idea for a rich interactive display on top of XPlanner (everyone's favorite project tracking tool at my office) called TaskBored that would give you a view of open stories and the tasks associated with them as if it were all sticky notes.  The desire for this view came out of our planning process, and while we've pretty much left this technique behind as impractical the view of the work ahead it produces is useful.
ASP.NET | Scrum
Sunday, November 25, 2007 5:12:28 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Hockey In Phoenix

Watched the Phoenix Coyotes spank the Toronto Maple Leaf's today. While a hockey game in the burbs of Phoenix is considerably more tame than a Rangers game at the Garden, it's still a rollicking good time. 

<sarcasm>Good news for those of you who like to package your entertainment you can get all you can eat packages starting at $30.

"All You Can Eat" menu items include:

  • Hot Dogs
  • Fountain Drinks
  • Popcorn
  • Nachos
  • Peanuts

Sign me up!</sarcasm> 

Actually, for someone who follows no sports what so ever, I really enjoy a hockey game.  Moves quick, it's rockus, and well the fights are pretty freakin' cool.

Entertainment | Food
Sunday, November 25, 2007 1:19:22 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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# Thursday, November 22, 2007

Getting on to Turkey Time

So this year my wife's mother opted for a bacon and maple turkey.  It smells pretty great sitting on the counter resting.  There was in interesting tidbit in the New York Times about carving turkey, Butcher’s Method Takes Carving Off the Table.  I'm interested to give this a try especially with the bacon and maple on the outside as every slice can have some skin.  I would love to say I'll report back, but I might be a little to tryptophan'd out. I'll see if can manage to get a picture online. My wife's mother sets a nice table and cooks pretty good too.

Quick, update... It worked great.  Totally manageable and everyone got nice big juicy slices of turkey.
Food
Thursday, November 22, 2007 6:47:05 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Thanksgiving Day... Watching the parade

Man, the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade is pretty ridiculous. Will Santa ever show up and end this misery?
Entertainment | metadata
Thursday, November 22, 2007 1:56:40 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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# Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Full disclosure

The tag line making the easy impossible is not mine. It's an homage to a former boss, Bruce, a bank vice president, who taught me about negotiating and doing buisness at my first corporate job. I think he actually used it as his IM tagline (he may still). At any rate, he's a great guy who taught me a lot.

I don't claim to be the guy who "makes the easy impossible", but I sure know him well.

metadata
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 6:34:02 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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# Tuesday, November 20, 2007

So I've started blogging.

There are several reason's I've started blogging.  Obviously, the first would be I feel like I have something to say... skipping to the end of a bunch of reasons... My mentor's comment about my site, "It's a little thin."  And in fact, it doesn't much matter why.

At any rate, I am just getting started at this.  I'm using dasBlog and liking it pretty well. There is some fiddling I had to do to figure it out, but that is more likely due to my refusal to read the documentation. I'm trying to figure out what to put on this page photo feeds, rolls from other things I read, widgets, and whatever else.  So dear readers (both of you), what should I do here?  What would you like to see?

metadata
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:27:56 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Taxonomy - My inagural post category

Yesterday, I was flying from Phoenix to Denver all the while watching the landscape below me and reading Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger.  I saw the author speak at the ClickZ.com "ten years..." dinner and was sufficiently impressed that he had something worthwhile to say that I was pleased to discover a copy of his book in the swag bag.  I'm only half way in, but his general gist so far is that the material nature of objects imposes limitations on their organization in space and the web blows the lid off of that as the web offers infinite categorization of objects.  I'll tell you later if I recommend the book, but so far he's made some interesting points.  So if you get a free copy, read it otherwise - hold the line.

I am more or less fascinated with Taxonomy, so it's pretty fitting that my first post where I inagurate both my blog and my first category is taxomonious (not sure that's a word.)
Taxonomy
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:56:49 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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