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Odd referrer - hmm...maybe time to revisit my ViewState compression stuff...

Bit concerned that an old post is being linked from this URL http://msdnprod/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/viewstate.asp?frame=true - especially as The URL of the person doing the linking is a Microsoft one That post REALLY needs updating (and is just such a…

Fascinating tale of what can happen when trying to use Agile Methodologies fails

Lorenzo Barberi posts this story of a guy trying to introduce agile methodologies into a traditional corporate 'Waterfall' management culture. What's really interesting in this story are the 'lessons' he mentions: 1) I wasn't very good at defending agile…

New Viewstate article on MSDN from Scott Mitchell

Just noticed a new article on MSDNfrom Scott Mitchell which pretty much covers everything you need to know about ASP.NET Viewstate. This is one of these ones which will become my first suggestion for people who have questions on this most mysterious and…

Source Control stuff greyed out in Visual Studio .NET 2003?

One of our developers had a problem where his VS.NET 2003 installed on Windows Server 2003 was greying out all of the options under the Source Control menu - took a little while to find the solution but eventually discovered it here - so if you have this…

XMLVisualiser Add-In from Ben Lovell

This is a really handy little add-in which lets you examine the content of XML bearing variables during debug sessions. I just discovered Ben Lovell's blog , lots of useful stuff over there...

CHM Reader for Pocket PC

I posted earlier about the MSDN Magazine CHM downloadable, just found a little CHM reader (in .NET yay!) on Codeproject, mobile MSDN magazine! (OK, so technically, always been mobile!)

Joel Spolsky on Microsoft and why Longhorn / WinFX could fail.

Basically, Joel covers a whole bunch of ground in this article, including issues like why it's not in Microsoft's best interest to support DHTML and advance Internet Explorer (which actually explains a WHOLE LOT!), and the basic problem around Windows -…

3D Squirrel buskers

Now there's a post title I never expected to write, anyway, got this in my mail from B3TA - theres lots of wierd stuff on that site, but this movie just rocks! Basically it's squirrels (or tree-rats as the movie calls them)..umm...busking. You can downloads…

Off for the weekend...

Well, the last episode of Friends is about to start...and just been doing my blog trawl before I shut my laptop for the weekend - for which I just bought a new power adaptor; if you need a laptop adaptor, live in the UK and want the best deal, check out…

Just noticed, implementation of LZO compression for .NET - VERY FAST!

Really just a wrapper around the really nice native C library, but could be handy when you need to compress stuff in the quickest way possible...here's the SourceForge homepage