June 2008 - Posts
Recently I was able to publish my first two eBooks via WROX BLOX, httpModules and httpHandlers . Each of these books gave me an opportunity to share some valuable information, experience and demonstrations on each of these niche topics that might otherwise
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The web is great, it has helped me build relationships with folks from all over the world. Recently Bartek Marnane contacted me to let me know he was kicking off a new Blog about ASP.NET. Bartek is from Australia, which I am going to visit one day before
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I am honored to be one of the selected speakers for Code Stock in Knoxville , TN August 9th. I will be demonstrating how to leverage custom httpModules and httpHandlers. There is a fantastic lineup of speakers ; including a keynote by my good friend Jeff
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So I thought I would just do it, use the Entity Framework, I mean how bad can it be? Well, pretty easy to be honest. Granted I just bound a collection to a GridView, but it was super easy. So I wanted to share with you want I did. First I recommend you
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I have posted before about IIS Status codes , realize that is not exactly a correct name for them, it should be Http Status Codes. I wanted to point you to a valuable enumeration in the System.Net namespace, HttpStatusCode . It contains members for each
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I am honored to be speaking at the TRIAD .NET Developers Guild next Tuesday on custom httpHandlers and httpModules. This will be the first time I get more than 75 minutes to run through my demos and explaining the various ins and outs of integrating httpHandlers
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So I stirred up a hornet's nest on a debate I honest did not know was so heated out there, and that being Stored Procedures vs Ad-Hoc queries . I must admit I have learned a lot, amongst other things is not to be as dogmatic about the topic if nothing
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So much stuff going on. Last week I did a lot of performance and scaling research and I think that is reflected here. Client-Side Use Ensure to load client scripts on demand - Hey, this is pretty good. If you come to my Front-End performance talks I talk
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I got to talk to some of the Zune team members at TechEd and learned a few new tricks to manage the content on my Zune. One I am so thankful for is the ability to drag and drop artist to combine them. I have many artists that are essentially duplicates
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One of the most commonly missed features of setting up a web server is configuring compression. All modern Browsers support both GZip and Deflate compression for content. All commercially viable web servers support GZip and Deflate compression types.
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Professional LINQ (Programmer to Programmer) by Scott Klein Read more about this book... I am really getting into LINQ right now, so I am looking for good references to get the concepts in my brain. I ordered a copy of Scott Klein's Professional LINQ
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This week I saw a twitter from Roy Osherove about a new Regular Expression Visualizer he built. If you do not know Roy yet, he is a very smart .NET developer for TypeMock and has done some great work with regular expression tools, such as Regulazy and
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So the latest thing to enter my regular schedule this month is Deep Fried Bytes , a new podcast hosted by Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff . So far they have published 4 episodes, with the first one being an introduction to what they wanted to do with Deep
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WROX released my custom httpHandler eBook , Leveraging httpHandlers to Stream Custom Content in ASP.NET , late last week. It is the second part of two WROX BLOX I recently authored, the first being about custom httpModules . The main purpose of
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After a few weeks on the road and I mean more like a month, I thought it was time to drop some link resources. Windows Search 4.0 - Finding things is cool. Software Testing 101 - Gotta get things right before the client sees it. We all need to improve
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Last week I was talking some folks at TechEd and it seemed customized settings of Visual Studio came up in a few conversations. As a frequent speaker I am starting to learn some of the tricks of the trade to make Visual Studio perform during a presentation.
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