I have never been on a flight with WiFi before. I am currently at 34000 feet over Kansas flying at 457 miles per hour. I think I paid around $10 for the access.

I have heard that this was coming, but this is my first flight with WiFi. 6n this Delta flight, they use a service called GoGoInflight.

Right now I only have one application on the Apple App Store, but I am planning on releasing more applications. According to Apple, iPhone applications will run unmodified on the iPad. Apple released a new SDK for the iPhone and iPad today.

The new iPhone/iPad SDK is version 3.2. Many speculated it would be version 4.0, but they may be saving those features for this Summer. The iPad will cost $499, $599 and $799 for the WiFi only versions, and $629, $729 and $829 for the WiFi/3G versions. Flash memory sizes will range from 16 GB to 64 GB.

 

January 14 –28th are the 14 days of jQuery. If you are not familiar with jQuery, it is a highly popular open source Javascript framework. Microsoft is now including jQuery with new editions of Visual Studio. John Resig and other developers are giving presentations on new features that are being included with version 1.4 at the 14 days of jQuery site.

One of the changes in this coming release is a new API documentation site for jQuery. This site has a listing of the new and changed functions in jQuery.

Scott Guthrie in his latest blog  post explains one of the cool new features in ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation. MVC already had a way of validating that worked pretty well, but with MVC 2 has improved on this with new DataAnnotation Validation attributes.

using System;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace fekkedotcomMVC.Models
{
    public class Person
    {
        //Example of required attributes.        
        [Required(ErrorMessage="First Name is required")]
        public string FirstName { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Last Name is required")]
        public string LastName { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Email is required")]
        public string Email { get; set; }
    }
}

There are also attributes for length and regular expressions. You can also add your own by extending one of the annotation classes.

I switched to a new web host yesterday. My previous site was written in ColdFusion. This site is written in ASP.NET MVC. I really like this new framework from Microsoft. I have not abandoned ColdFusion, but for the last few years I have been developing for .NET. I felt that it made since to switch my site over to .NET since that what I have been using for most of my development.

I am using BlogEngine.NET for my blogging software. I looked at Oxite, but it was still in beta when I looked at it.

I will be presenting on jQuery at the Jaxdug tonight at 6:00 PM. jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that helps add interactivity to web pages and manipulated the DOM more easily.

The new version of ColdFusion 9 has been released today. This will be he subject of tonight's JaxFusion meeting. The meeting will be at Andromedia Systems in Orange Park at 7:00 PM.

 

John Lyons will be presenting on Game development using Mono, Unity3d and Blender at the next JaxDug meeting.

Unity is an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games and interactive presentatons on Windows, Mac, Wii and iPhone platforms.

 

The next JaxFusion will be on October 5th at 7PM. The meeting will be held at ASI in Orange Park. ASI is located at 330 Crossing Blvd Orange Park, FL 32073.

There will be two presentations. One will cover the new features in ColdFusion 9. The other will cover hybrid iPhone ColdFusion apps.

I have posted my presentations from the annual Jacksonville code camp on this site. Thanks to everybody who came out to code camp this weekend.

The iPhone development presentation and the ASP.NET MVC presentation are both in Microsoft Powerpoint format.