I really like Dino Esposito's writing style...anyway, he's come up with a brilliant article on the most efficient ways to use Session state from ASP.NET- this is just about the best examination of the subject that I've seen and is now one of my 'must reads'…
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I wrote here complaining about the (in my opinion) pretty poor treatment of Architecture (especially) for ASP.NET. Well, here's a suggestion of a solution - I've just read the whitepapers for ALL of the starter kits - some people have mailed me to say that…
I fully admit I am a moody sod...I don't know how / why it happens but occasionally I have real difficulty getting motivated to actually get working. So, what do you do to motivate yourself to get coding (especially making syntactic / other 'cosmetic' changes…
This would be pretty useful integrated into .TEXT - kill the problem of 'Comments Spamming' pretty instantly. The article also contained a link to The Captcha Project - which makes for pretty interesting reading,
I spent this weekend doing some 'product investigation' for a pitch we're preparing - which basically means that ensuring what we're saying in a pitch actually matches up with the product's capabilities. Not much fun, but has given me some ideas for future…
Though I'd quickly knock this up - wallpaper from the Mars Probes page. Get it here (1600x1200)
Just looking back through some old posts, I started this blog on my own URL (so not on ASP.NET weblogs) so I could post whatever I wanted...strange thing is, this blog is more focussed on .NET specific information than most of the ones there now...
Well, I'm suffering from post new year sleeping pattern - I basically become nocturnal over the Christmas and New Year (Hogmanay) holidays, have to start work in 8 hours...not good! Anyway, while I am sitting here awake (there's a show on about Turkish Harems;…
Still waiting for the 0.95 release of .TEXT (which is what this blog runs on), so I don't really want to make any changes to this site until then - as the changes I plan may already be in that release / the changes in 0.95 will be so radical that it will…
@Stakehave just released a study looking at the relative security of .NET vs. WebSphere (WebSphere is probably the most secure App Server for J2EE). I have to say, I trust @Stake more than most, having have a good deal of involvement them in years gone by...
Thought this interview was VERY interesting, more for the approach more than anything else. It really does look like MS is changing the way they approach software - the focus on quality over timeliness and marketing concerns is appreciated. It really does seem…
Just discovered the dotnetjunkies weblogs , where I found thesereally useful links to a bunch of interesting .NET stuff...more later (back to blogging again :-))
Well, the problem I was having with connection pool appears to have gone...all I did was reinstall (well, repair) my VS.NET 2003 install. Odd these little strange bugs!
Read this on Cameron Reilly's blog: This saysa lot about the intelligence of some of the folks on Slashdot. Are they having a joke? Perhaps. But cheering on a virus is kind of like cheering on a terrorist. Now I'm sorry, this is such a dumb statement, for me…
Code Complete by Steve McConnellis, in my opinion (and many others), the best book ever about the art and discipline of coding. Basically, it's just the bible of how to design and build quality software. So, I'm really looking forward to Code Complete 2 (link…
This comment to my moan about thisis VERY cool: I think I've solved your problem! I've successfully developed a Mozilla wrapper for Microsoft's HTC files. It is encapsulated in a single XBL binding, so is exremely portable. The binding is small (4k) and…
Pretty useful if you don't have the ability to use IIS compression (or choose not to) - Jeff Julian has released a 'plugin' for .TEXT which enables you to compress the RSS feeds produced by .TEXT 0.95 - which is very useful, most of my traffic for instance…
I do have a tendency to get involved in pointless arguments in the ASP.NET Forums...a good example is this one, arguing about the performance of 'foreach' versus 'for'...any opinions from here - the crux of my argument is that for() will in general perform…
I've been giving some more thought to the ViewState stuff I mentioned earlier. It actually brings up something which I find most annoying about ASP.NET - and this is not a political point! Why exactly can't 'ordinary' users see the source for ASP.NET, so far…
Nice sample and methodology from Robert Downey (obvious joke omitted), shows some really interesting (to me at least) insights into the workings of ViewState (you may be noticing a pattern here :-))
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