February 2008 - Posts
Today I found out about a new resource from Microsoft, Visual Studio Gallery , that will host a directory of Visual Studio Add-ins. Ken Levy is the Microsoft manager for the project and made the official announcement about it earlier today. I like Add-Ins
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In the past 24 hours both Mashable and TechCrunch have reported that a lawsuit has been filed against both ICANN and Network Solutions for Front-Running. I reported the unethical practice back in January, where any available domain a whois lookup was
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Thanks to everyone for attending my presentation at the Raleigh Code Camp . I was surprised at the turn out and you guys asked a lot of great questions. I wanted to post my slide deck for you guys. I will post a little sample project in the next day or
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I saw a question on the ASP.NET forums on when to use or what is URL Mapping good for . This is a very good question, especially for newbies to the ASP.NET paradigm. URL Mapping is nice when you have a legacy site you are upgrading to ASP.NET for example.
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At the Raleigh Code Camp things went pretty well. There of course were things here and there that did not go according to plan, one of those was how are we going to select door prize winners at the end of the day? Richard Campbell had offered to conduct
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Coming to Raleigh next month will be Visual Studio Team System Briefings . This looks like a worthwhile investment of time with the Microsoft Evangelist. If I am in town I will try to go.I really like the Team System edition of Visual Studio 2008 and
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Yesterday Google started hijacking 404 status codes through the Google Toolbar from unknowing Web sites to show pages with ads. TechCrunch even has a poll asking if you think the Google hijacking is a good thing or not. While Google publicly states they
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A HotFix for Visual Studio 2008 was released late Friday. Scott Guthrie details the items that are addressed in the Blog entry. Mainly there are some performance issues with Visual Studio 2008 that were beginning to drive me crazy. So I am very pleased
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Earlier this week IIS 7 was approved as a finished product by the team at Microsoft . This is great news. I have not let myself get too involved with IIS 7 up to this point, but that will be changing this week. I have been working on some virtual images
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My friend from Atlanta, Jim Wooley recently finished his book on LINQ, LINQ In Action . The book covers LINQ basics, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML and LINQ Extensions, see the LINQ In Action table of contents . I am looking forward to reading the book and
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Cross-Site Scripting attacks are very common on the Internet these days. The sad thing is these attacks can easily be thwarted with a little extra analysis and architecting before programming begins. Far too many Web Sites do not make the effort to stop
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Since MOSS, or SharePoint 2007 Portal Server, was released many companies are looking to upgrade their existing SharePoint 2003 servers. The main problem is SharePoint 2003 was built with FrontPage technology and not completely on .NET. MOSS uses only
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Many years ago I saw there was an ASP.NET user group meeting here in the Triangle. That night their guest was Stephen Walther , who just impressed me beyond anything I had experienced up to that point in my development career. I think it was the first
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A few weeks ago I posted about a horrible business practice being leveraged by Network Solutions. This week I found a New York Times article about how ICANN is now considering dropping the loophole that allowed Network Solutions to hose unknowing and
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This is not a secret, but I did want to remind everyone about the upcoming Raleigh Code Camp , on February 16th. ECPI Raleigh is graciously hosting the event for us again. They have been a wonderful host for our previous Code Camp as well as a few of
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I just found out about ChannelVisor's Open House next week. They will be showing off there new Agile Development Center. If you are not aware of ChannelVisor they are a .NET shop that provides a rich management platform for online auction management to
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Recently I published my .NET class to resize images on Code Plex. I wanted to follow up with a demonstration of how the class is used. First you will need to compile the class library and then add a reference to the resulting dll to either a web project,
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I thought I would share some of my code as a project on Code Plex. I have a class, well couple of classes, I use to resize images. So I published it as a Code Plex project, ExImageResizer . So go grab the code, and submit some issues or a discussion forum.
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So I woke up this morning after a hard night's sleep to the major breaking news of Microsoft doing a hostile takeover of Yahoo! for $44 Billion. So how long ago did I write this was going to happen? Well July 2006 I wrote about the rumblings of Microsoft
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