Remembering the pre-AJAX days ?

Back in the early days of AJAX development, before the name was even cornered around 2004... there were many ways to obtain the AJAX-like effects of todays omnipresent XMLHTTP implementations.

One I found particularly nice was the "Webservice.htc" HTML-component which mimicked todays Webservice-proxies.

One of the guys on my team asked me a question leading me to look it up, and to me great amusement it was still available for download right there on Microsoft's website.

Check it out in case you never had the chance to work with it, and if you have worked with it... pay it a visit and remember the "fun" times we had doing AJAX-like effects before it even had a name.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531034(VS.85).aspx

MSDN : TechEd 2008 in Barcelona

Now registration is opened for this years Microsoft TechEd in Europe.



If you sign up prior to the 31st of July, its possible to get a discount on the fee.
This year there is gonna be a lot about Silverlight, so be sure to sign up if you are working on RIA's.

There is a discount code which will make it possible to get some discount:
DLCTTN37

Check it out...
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/itpro/

Discount (35%) on books from Microsoft Press

By using the discount code below you get 35% discount when purchasing Microsoft Books from Ravenholm Computing...

TECHNET941

To be honest, I am not totally convinced that I am in compliance with the idea behind offering all users this discount code, but I do not recall at any point to have agreed to a NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) for offers put forward by both solicited as well as unsolicited 3rd party partners of Microsoft.

If anyone have any objections to me posting this discount code, please dont hesitate to leave a comment and let me know. If your your objection has any substance I will promptly remove the posting.

The receipt I got after updating my TechNet profile at Microsoft....