Really good article on MSDN about Session state in ASP.NET

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'…

Futher to my earlier rant...

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…

Motivation...

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…

Good article on Codeproject - those wierd little images used to stop automated form submission

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,

How not to spend a weekend

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…