Scott Stanfield

AKA, "How I learned Atlas by learning AJAX first".

It's been nearly a year since I did my first Atlas presentation for the PDC Underground in Los Angeles at the 2005 PDC. I updated my presentation for a talk in Irvine on 9/23/06 for an all-SoCal User Group shindig (on a Saturday!) at the airport Hilton.

You can download the "presentation" which is funny since it was mostly code. I added a default.htm that walks through the order in which the pages were created, live, for the talk.

It helps to have Fiddler handy to watch what's going on behind the scenes. Due to a problem/bug with IE7 and the inability to proxy localhost requests, you have to use Fiddler with Firefox if you're using Cassini (the local web server that comes with Web Developer Express). Not a big deal, really.

I'd post a screen shot of the atlas demo, but it's such a pain to do images with Community Server that I'm going to punt this time. In fact, we're going to switch to SharePoint 2007 any day partly for the ability to easily add images to your blog posts!

I delivered an Ajax/Atlas presentation in Irvine on 9/23. I'm working on posting the details and code but ran into a problem. As I was cleaning up the bits, I accidently deleted one of the key files! So I'm set back a bit. The file will be reconstructed and all posted by the EOD. Sorry SoCal! You guys were a fantastic audience!

I just installed Vista RC1 on my Thinkpad T60 (1951-48U) and, for the first time over all the previous beta releases, Glass works! Out-of-the-box actually. And no hiccups on the install either. Apparently the WEI score was high enough to make it to Glass. Previously, I was getting a 1.0 for graphics!

I think the culprit was the onboard Intel 945GM express chipset. It's integrated video controller (950?) has the ability to dynamically allocate up to 250MB or so for video RAM.

Now a few things aren't working out the gates. External audio through speakers for example. The XP drivers from Lenovo solved this problem with pre-RC1, so I'm guessing it'll work.

Also, two drivers were recognized post-boot as part of Auto Updates: ThinkPad PM Device and UPEK biometric TouchChip. Haven't used them yet.