Matt’s News / Blog

Today I went downtown Chicago for the MSDN Developers Conference. I had a good time and learned some things. I was a little disappointed with the keynote. It was mainly about Cloud Computing and Windows Azure. I guess my main concern would be trusting Microsoft with your App and Data. I suppose it would be good for some situations.

C# 4.0 has some interesting features. I’m not really that super excited about optional parameters and dynamic types. Dynamic typing in C# makes it feel like JavaScript… shudder…

Silverlight 3.0 looks very nice. There are some nice things like built in navigation, authentication and validation. All things very noticeably missing from 2.0.

Finally, I liked the F# presentation (except it was more about why instead of how). I think it definitely has it’s place and I’d like to learn more about it. If it’s anything like Haskell I’ll enjoy it.

So this week wasn’t that great for my new years resolutions, mainly resolution #5. Since I kept pressing the snooze alarm, I didn’t achieve resolution #1, which could impact resolution #2.

The new fitness center at our apartment complex opened up this week. Hopefully, this will help resolution #1. It should be noted that they said it would be open this summer (yes, that’s was 5-6 months ago…)

I don’t usually make resolutions, but here are a couple things I’d like to accomplish:

• Workout more (4-5 times a week)
• Run in a half marathon (the Chicago Rock n’ Roll Half Marathon)
• Blog more often
• Take more photos
• Press the snooze button less

I think that’s it!

I’ve move servers and upgraded Wordpress — all at once. I’m now using Ubiquity Hosts. I switched because I was getting tiered of maintaining a VPS. My new account had CPanel, which makes configuration very easy. I also have a reseller account, so I can create and sell my own hosting packages.

I also installed IntenseDebatefor commenting. Hopefully, people (you) like it… Any other useful plugins I should install?

Anyway, my site has now been moved.

I joined Twitter today. My profile like is: https://twitter.com/mwissman

Our proofs from the photographer are online here: http://essencewedding.morephotos.com/mp_client/pictures_welcome.asp?categories=no&keywords2=no&eventid=39254

Kate and Peter (Alisse’s Aunt and Uncle) took some great photos (http://gallery.mac.com/pparadise#100574&bgcolor=black&view=grid)

Bryan also took some good photos (http://www.bryanpsmith.com/2008/10/24/matthew-and-allisses-wedding-1/)

If you have access to Facebook, there are many more posted by others.

I’m married!

I really feel like a real Chicagolander now — I just got my brand new IPass in the mail.