Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

First, wow, I never ever dreamed pushing that publish button on something I wrote in about 20 minutes would get so much play! Thanks for all who shared their opinions, I enjoyed them all. Please feel free to share more, I think this is such a good discussion to have. But seriously you will not find me breaking from my stances. I will write more ...

I read Dilbert every day, it adds levity to my technical life. Besides I cannot watch Office Space every day can I? Today's Dilbert was funny, but makes a very important point about why software development is so much different than just about any other trade. Often I have had clients that want what I do to be summarized as simple and trivial, ...

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 done on the Network Solutions site would then get immediately registered in the name of Network ...

A long while back I wrote an article on Domain Registration. I have been registering domains for about a decade at this point. I manage domain registration for many of my clients and I use OPENSRS as my registrar. I have never really like Network Solutions and their parent company Verisign. I have long thought their business practices were ...

A recent InfoWorld article, by Bill Snyder, points out that Java is quickly becoming outdated, so much so that it calls Java the new Cobol. It goes on to point out several times that .NET is quickly replacing Java as the platform of choice. I am not going to say I really know too much about what developing in JAVA is like. Honestly the last time ...

In a crazy move the state of Maryland has decided to slap an additional sales tax on custom software development and other technical service work. Since I am not a resident of the overpriced and already over taxed state of Maryland I cannot say with certainty that Maryland residence are subjected to income tax confiscation already, but I think ...

I put together a presentation on Identity solutions for the Richmond for the Code Camp last Saturday. The main reason I wanted to give this presentation so I could learn more about the two authentication methods that are being developed to make our online experiences more secure and easier for average users to use. Problem 1: Security As the ...

First, I said this would happen in my 2006 Year in Review, but it looks like Microsoft will be purchasing Yahoo for between $50-60 billion dollars. This is a good move for both involved. I have really been noticing Yahoo being more and more open to .NET developers in the past few months, which is the first step to getting things integrated and ...

I thought about adding this one to my links of the week, but this is a little more important than just a breif mention. If you are not familiar with Archive.org, it is a web site that retains and makes public snapshots of every website at various points in time. Go ahead check out the original version of Extreme Web Works (please do not laugh ...

Last night at the monthly TRINUG meeting I heard a nasty rumor that Microsoft is going to port the .NET framework to the MAC. As ghastly as this sounds, it could be a wise move for two reasons. First, Microsoft is currently trying extremely hard to court graphics and design guys to use Expression and help with all the great new WPF applications ...