Jay Glynn's Blog

Well after the NHLPA and the NHL have finally resolved their differences, Bob Goodenow has resigned. Goodenow was the head of the players association. If it wasn;t for his blinders and for his arrogance, thier probably would have been hockey last year. I have the pleasure of knowing a couple of NHL players and for the most part, everyone was willing to except the cap long ago. Bob decided that he knew best and kept pushing back. It's a shame that it took so long for the NHLPA to see that this guy was not doing them any favors, but at least I'll be able to use my season tickets this year ;-)

Go Predators... 

I was able to attend the CAB training session at Redmond earlier this week. It was a very informative couple of days. We were able to meet and talk with the dev team of CAB. We went through a series of Hands On Labs that will be available soon. I am still trying to get my head around the how CAB works at a detail level. I have a good understanding of things at at a higher level.

If you are building a larger client application (non ASP) then you would be doing yourself a favor by looking at it. It is an implementation of MVC or MVP (Model-View-Controller or Model-View-Presenter). One of the big advantages that I see in it is consistency. If some dev thinks it's a good ide to put a couple of hundred line of code in the click event of button, it will stick out like a sore thumb. Another great feature is the extensibility. You can your own Services (a service provides functionailty such as persistence or cryptography) or workspaces (a container for visual items). This allows a great deal of flexibility and also allows you to create a framework that can offer a high level of reuse.

As I get more comfortable with CAB I'll try and post more about it.   

I have been a FireFox user for well over a year now. The number one reason is that I can get the tab functionality to work the way that I want it to work (with the addition of a couple of addins). So far IE7 is falling a little short in tab functionality.

1. The menu, shortcut and standard button bar are linked to each tab. Remove the standard button bar on one tabe, it is still available in other tabs. I understand that this may be nice in some situations, but I would at least like to be able to turn it off.
2. Because of number 1, the tabs are above the menu, shortcuts and standard button bar. I would rather the tabs be above the page and the menus and toolbars be above the tabs. Doesn't seem to be a way to change this.
3. When I type a url in the address bar, I want that page to open in a new tab. Can't seem to make that happen. No option to turn it on.
4. When I select an iten from the Favorites menu I want to have a way to open it in a new tab. Doesnt seem to be a way for this to happen.
5. Can't seem to find a refresh button anywhere. It's not in the list of buttons to add. What's up with that?

I know this is the first beta, so I am hoping that there is more control on tab settings on the way. I want to be able to configure how pages are loaded into the tabs, and most importantly I do not want to ever have more than 1 IE window open. Everything else seems to be stable. Performance seems OK, and of course rendering is fine.