January 2007 - Posts
March 3 I plan on speaking at the Roanoke Valley Code Camp . I will be doing a Search Engine Optimization for ASP.NET programmers and another topic to be determined. If you are planning on going and had an idea for a topic you want to hear about let me
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I can not tell you how bad image leeching is. If you do not know what I am talking about it is when you have an image on your web site and someone else embeds a direct like to your image on their site or something like E-Bay. There are two things wrong
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Strolling through my Blog Roll I was reading through Rick Strahl's blog and was caught up in this entry about a MAJOR FireFox BUG (IMHO). I have been recently having an issue with one of my clients that has a lot of University Students, hence a lot
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A little upfront disclaimer, this is an opinionated rant. The ASP.NET Ajax framework and Control Toolkit were officially released last week. I am actually starting to get a little excited with the ability to easily do prudent real-time interactions back
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Tradgedy struck me Sunday afternoon, one of my RAID 0 drives went down for the count! I am not sure what caused it to drop out, but I could not boot anymore. I had done a rollback of the system to last Wednesday configuration, and kaboom. The irony was
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A little over a week ago I had a very serious bug hit me in the gut. I have a project I am currently consumed with that uses several Master Pages in it. Each Master Page has its own derived MasterPage class, just like any code-behind page would have.
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After all the demo code, broken tutorials, etc, ASP.NET Ajax is in version 1.0. I am actually working on a production implementation of the Modal Pop-Up fromthe ASP.NET AJAX toolkit today, so this was great timing for me. I will follow up with my experiences
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I have been pretty busy lately and the last week has flown by on me. I have been spending some of my time writing some interesting httpModules that I will share with you in the coming weeks. But as I was reading through the MSDN blogs this afternoon I
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I came across this interesting reflective post looking back at 1994, The Internet Year in Review - 1994 , which was one of the most definitive years in my life. I found the Internet in 1992 at NC State, Go Wolfpack!, and just could not get away from it.
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I had to try something new the other day to solve a problem, setting the Click Event Handler of a button on a Master Page in the Content Page. Honestly I have never had the need, or at least not realized that I needed this functionality up to this point
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It amazes me that in today's high tech world that any legitimate company can not have their caller id display correctly. It amazes me even more that the number can not be displayed. Generally these tatics are used by tele-marketers, so I never answer
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I am excited because this week Juval Lowey will be speaking to TRINUG! Juval is one of the top .NET gurus and recently released his book on WCF, Programming WCF Services . He will be presenting WCF from a programmer's perspective, which should be
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I am often asked what sites, blogs and podcasts I frequent. I thought I would compile a list of the top 10 ASP.NET resources I visit, generally daily or weekly depending on their frequency. www.DotNetRocks.com - Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell do a
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Accountability is an important charactersitic that is manadatory for successful people and organizations, without it there is really nothing that truly motivates a person to acheive their goals and expectations. Therefor I am am going to lay out several
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