August 2008 - Posts
Yesterday my friend Keith Elder posted a poignant editorial Blog about ASP.NET web sites that were not compliant with all browsers . Keith is very justified in his argument and points us to some examples. The reality is that most web developers do not
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As a .NET developer I live in Visual Studio as my primary tool. I think it is a fantastic environment, but with anything you live with there are many things I want to see in the next version. So I thought I would start logging them by category. Visual
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Most of the last two years of my career I have been developing applications behind the firewall and let’s face it most ASP.NET applications sit behind the firewall. This is unfortunate because ASP.NET offers the most scalable and performant (yes that
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Mainstream support for .NET 1.1 is retiring on October 14, 2008 . What this means is if you have not installed at least Visual Studio 200 5 and .NET 2.0 by now, you really need to. Yes you can buy an extended support contract for mega bucks, but seriously
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This weekend was a great weekend for .NET developers in the Smoky Mountains as CodeStock rocked the mountains. There were several hundred passionate geeks that came out to Pellissippi State to learn, socialize and have an all around good times, and I
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Trolling the ASP.NET forums this afternoon I came across this thread about creating a custom httpHandler to log IP information to a database . What the requester was trying to do was call a remote site’s ( www.ShowMyIP.com ) REST API to get information
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Another week of great resources for the .NET developer to take in. Amazing how many are out there. I tried to do some more organizing again, I hope it helps you out. Twitter Clients – They work great till the Fail Whale surfaces! SharePoint Governance
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