I've just written a little HttpModule which lets me see incoming requests in real-time, very interesting to see just what weird and wonderful clients are hitting this site - way more than I actually thought which is nice...also very interesting just how easy…
I download lots of ISOs from MSDN and others for evaluating software, developing etc...To be frank, burning all these to CD is a pain. I have recently stumbled upon a great tool called Undisker - basically, it lets you treat ISOs like archives - so you can…
Just noticed on Scott W's site, hidden in one of the comments is a link to a project called Syndicache, this is a stunningly interesting idea. What this seems to provide is a method of using NNTP as a central aggregator for RSS feeds, have a look here for an…
More for an academic exercise on the workings of .TEXT than anything else, this site now has a search function (really very simple to implement - please contact me if you want the source...). Anyway, not perfect as yet...but I'll fix it when I have time.
How do you enable caching for the RSS control? Well, in the RssDisplay.ascx, add the following line after the <%@ Page%>declaration: <%@ OutputCache Duration="1200" VaryByParam="none"%> This will cache the output (and therefore, the webrequest to the rss feed)…
Just noticed this, not due for a few months yet - the OQO Personal Computer, not overly powered (a Transmeta 1GHZ processor, 256MB Ram and 20GB hard drive). But this might JUST provide a way to have a full Windows XP experience on the move (Pocket PC just…
I think I'm going through one of my bi-annual mid-life crises again. I really should be sleeping, I have a hospital appointment in the morning (just a diabetic clinic followup thing - 10 minutes and a lecture about my diet...great fun - and eerily similar to…
I have downloaded and installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a Windows-client for my blog tool (as well as some for other tools). Actually, it was not me who wrote this text: when I launched BlogJet for the first time, it's edit window already…
OK, maybe someone 'in the know' can settle this, is it possible to upload large files efficiently purely using ASP.NET? I've been following a threadin the ASP.NET forums about providing a method to do this using HttpHandlers / Modules to do this. What confuses…
Well, spent the weekend working again - had a sudden stroke of inspiration about a work project, much refactoring later, I have a more stable and flexible implementation. I may write about this in more detail at a later date, got some pretty cool stuff going…