So things have been a tad crazy lately.  I'm gearing up a presentation on ASP.Net Ajax for myself to give to students and after just a few seconds of playing with it, I realized how much simpler things are with ASP.Net Ajax.  I'm still at the skin level with it and am wondering about some of the dynamic stuff I can do with it. 

A traditional, super basic Ajax call I would do would take about 75 lines of code from start to finish.  That includes C#, JS, and HTML code.

The same function but done in ASP.Net Ajax with the HTML code structured exactly the same is 13 lines of code.  And 12 of those lines are from the HTML.  Yup, 1 line for the Ajax call is all I had to write.

Toys

So I have some new items I've gotten and attempting to play with them and finally get stuff wrapped up with multiple projects before I go crazy with new projects.  I want to wrap up my Ambient Orb wrapper, drunktender with the new relay boards, and do an article for each at Coding4Fun.  I have oddly enough most of each article completed too.

Now I have 4 iPAQ phones and am wondering what trouble I can use these for.

Events I'm doing

Halo 3 Events I'm putting on (or helping out at or maybe just showing up to)

Sept 24th - Minneapolis, MN

Sept 26th - Washington University, MO

Sept 27th - University of Missouri - STL, MO

Sept 29th - DePaul University (Chicago REPRESENT!) - IL

October 1-4th - Stuff in Arizona, I believe ASU at a min

October 5th - University of Iowa, IA

October 12th - Missouri State, MO