I've previously used Xml Serialization for loading and saving config files into and out of apps - nice use...What I've done recently though has been very useful - for me at least. Essentially, I have an application which has a little Poll control, now in…
How does this guyfind the time, anyway, found on Roy Osherove's blog, Chris Brumme(CLR God) has posted and article on the Exception model in the CLR. Not exactly light reading...but worthwhile to gain a bit more precious insight into the deep and murky inner…
I really like Dino Esposito's writing style...anyway, he's come up with a brilliant article on the most efficient ways to use Session state from ASP.NET- this is just about the best examination of the subject that I've seen and is now one of my 'must reads'…
I wrote here complaining about the (in my opinion) pretty poor treatment of Architecture (especially) for ASP.NET. Well, here's a suggestion of a solution - I've just read the whitepapers for ALL of the starter kits - some people have mailed me to say that…
I fully admit I am a moody sod...I don't know how / why it happens but occasionally I have real difficulty getting motivated to actually get working. So, what do you do to motivate yourself to get coding (especially making syntactic / other 'cosmetic' changes…
This would be pretty useful integrated into .TEXT - kill the problem of 'Comments Spamming' pretty instantly. The article also contained a link to The Captcha Project - which makes for pretty interesting reading,
I spent this weekend doing some 'product investigation' for a pitch we're preparing - which basically means that ensuring what we're saying in a pitch actually matches up with the product's capabilities. Not much fun, but has given me some ideas for future…
Though I'd quickly knock this up - wallpaper from the Mars Probes page. Get it here (1600x1200)
Just looking back through some old posts, I started this blog on my own URL (so not on ASP.NET weblogs) so I could post whatever I wanted...strange thing is, this blog is more focussed on .NET specific information than most of the ones there now...
Well, I'm suffering from post new year sleeping pattern - I basically become nocturnal over the Christmas and New Year (Hogmanay) holidays, have to start work in 8 hours...not good! Anyway, while I am sitting here awake (there's a show on about Turkish Harems;…