December 2007 - Posts
A very common issue that many new developers come into when using a DropDownList control is how to truly bind items to the list. A common problem that happens is they bind just the items or records from the list. This creates an issue when the user wants
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I read a lot of programming books, I have two books shelves to prove it. I even have my own book on my shelves. But I listen to a lot of Podcasts each week. Obviously I listen to the Pwop Productions line up, thank you Carl and Richard. Those two along
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For some reason I started reviewing some of my friend's Brad Abrams old Blog entries. It was one of those things I thought I would see what he was saying 2-3 years ago about things that are now released and established. I thought it might give me some
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Digging through some stuff on Brad's Blog history I found this interesting post on DateTime formatting. He was referring to something on Julie Lerman's old Blog, but it is not there anymore. But Brad has a very long set of datetime formatting code that
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Thursday, December 20th, I will be joining my good friends Jim Duffy and Brian Hitney for the MSDN event in Greensboro, NC . I will be covering Astoria or ADO.NET Data Services as it is now known, Jim will be covering what's new for Web development
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My final entry in my series on elements for E-Commerce sites I want to go over some aspects related to programming. Some of this is as much marketing as it is programming because it involves making the user experience rich and at the same time including
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There is no point in having an online store if you do not accept money from your customers. Deciding how you will get paid truly involves every single aspect of my 4 parts of developing an E-Commerce presence. I always tell my clients to give their customers
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To continue on my theme of a good E-Commerce practices, the next topic is security. I will never admit to be a full blown security expert, but I feel comfortable enough to point out some key items to have in place for an E-Commerce site. These include
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Previously I wrote about key points to marketing an E-Commerce site . While I wrote things from the perspective of application to an E-Commerce perspective those points as well as these about infrastructure can apply to just about any web presence. Infrastructure
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I have developed over 250 ASP.NET sites alone in the past 6 years. In doing that many sites I have had more than my fair share of opportunities to develop custom E-Commerce solutions. They all are unique, since every business is unique. But at the same
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After long last I finally have my copies of my book, ASP.NET 2.0 Your Visual Blueprint for developing Web Applications . This is my first book and I put a lot of time and effort into the production of the book. I learned so much more than I ever thought
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The geekSpeak I did with Glen Gordon and Lynn Langit last week is now available on Channel 9. Wow I have something I did on Channel 9, who would have thought that? This is a pretty popular presentation I do on custom httpModules and httpHandlers . So
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Next week, December 12th, the Triangle .NET User Group will be holding an Installfest for Visual Studio 2008. Each Registered attendee , and I stressed registered attendee, will receive a FREE copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Brian Hitney , our
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I hate to get into the flame wars anymore, but I have to post this since I live on the web and have worry about coding standards for each browser, etc. A recent study of browser security vulnerabilities shows that FireFox has a significant number of holes.
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