Another Personal Thread

Well it’s been over a month, yet again since I have posted. To recap from my last post, I presented with the help of my friend help the first section of my book to the group I belong to. It went over ok, it’s still pretty rough but there is one thing I learned from the presentation of the story, once you feel that the story is good read it out loud, it may sound good in your head but reading it out loud finds the flaws. The feedback the group gave me was wonderful it gave me hope. They said it has potential so I am happy; I spent the next week making some big modifications to the first section. As of now the first section of chapter one is complete, I am now working on the second section of the chapter.

In the past I used to get upset with my favorite authors. I used to think come on how hard can it be to write a book? Even if this book I am writing never gets published this alone will make me respect how are it is to write a good story/book.

On another note, I have come to a realization that at 32 years of age I want to return to school. As of this fall I will be attending Boise State University. Currently I am a non degree seeking student, my plan is to take the writing classes I want and get back into the swing of things. From here this will give me the foundation I need to go back and work on my bachelor’s degree in computer science. I really enjoy writing software but I know there is more to writing software than just Microsoft products, I know that the software development field is a lot bigger than just what I am doing. So by going back to school this will open up so many more doors that are currently closed to me.

Personal update

It’s been over a month since; I last posted on the forums minus the post about star wars books. Since my last post I have made some what I feel as decent progress on my first chapter. That was until I have my editor review it. I have since been doing a lot of reading about writing. I have also joined a very cool group here in Boise. Boise Speculative Fiction this is a great group. You can find a link to their website in my blog role.

I am hoping to have my first section of my book rewritten and ready to present to the group, our next meeting is the 15^th of the month so I am running out of time. I think taking the time to read the book HOW TO WRITE Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott card right now is a little more important though. I have also picked up, another one of the suggested reads my editor gave me HOOKED grab readers at page one by edgerton. I have not yet had a chance to read the second book mentioned but that is next on my reading list.

I want to thank my friend stef I am in this process new she is having to deal with a lot of my questions,  thank you stef bear with me for a little while longer I will get it.

Personal thread.

Back in high school I started writing a book. I found the manuscript of the book and have decided to start researching and rewriting the book. I decided that it would be a good start to research some of the idea’s in the book with real world examples. So right now i am doing a lot of research to try and make my book feel more real.

 Well wish me luck and i will keep trying to keep this topic updated.

ASP.Net 2.0 Client callback functionality

Back about 4 years ago I saw an article in my msdn magazine, this article was about new functionality coming out in what was then the soon to be released .Net 2.0. At the time I thought this would be some great functionality, to use in my projects.  We all know how busy we can all become.

 

Up until yesterday I had completely forgotten about this functionality. That was until I read a great article by Tony Patton (Limit postbacks with ASP.NET 2.0 client callbacks). This article reminded me about the client callback functionality they added into ASP.NET 2.0 client call backs. This is some really cool functionality. I could see using this functionality if you had a very heavy asp.net page with a lot of graphics.

 

You could setup your website with controlled sections; these sections would be expecting user interaction and returning data to the client. Because the page is so heavy and the load time or server travel time would take so long to come back. The client callback functionality would reduce the page load times. We all know that users do not like to wait for slow web pages. If the page is just slow enough they will move on or think the page is down. If all we are refreshing is a single controlled section of the page when the user asks for data. Having just that section of the page update would be so much faster.

 

There is only one issue I can see with this client callback functionality. In order for the webpage to just update a small section, the page has to be designed around this functionality. In the scheme of keeping the end user happy designing the user interface around this is not a bad thing.

Other posts talking about client callbacks in asp.net 2.0.

Limit postbacks with ASP.NET 2.0 client callbacks

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=642

Implementing Client Callbacks Without Postbacks in ASP.NET Web Pages

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178208(VS.80).aspx

How to: Implement Callbacks in ASP.NET Web Pages

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms366518(VS.80).aspx

Script Callbacks msdn article 2004 august

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163941.aspx

Welcome

Welcome all to my blog this is a work in progress so watch as it changes.

It has been almost a year , since I have posted. I hope this is will change starting with just some minor blog postings about my entertainment. Look forward for some techincal topics that have stuck in my craw.