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...
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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...
Sunday, 07 March 2004 00:00
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Still waiting for the 0.95 release of .TEXT (which is what this blog runs on), so I don't really want to make any changes to this site until then - as the changes I plan may already be in that...
Sunday, 07 March 2004 00:00
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@Stakehave just released a study looking at the relative security of .NET vs. WebSphere (WebSphere is probably the most secure App Server for J2EE). I have to say, I trust @Stake more than most,...
Sunday, 07 March 2004 00:00
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Well, the problem I was having with connection pool appears to have gone...all I did
was reinstall (well, repair) my VS.NET 2003 install. Odd these little strange bugs!
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Code Complete by Steve McConnellis, in my opinion (and many others), the best book ever about the art and discipline of coding. Basically, it's just the bible of how to design and build quality...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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I've been giving some more thought to the ViewState stuff I mentioned earlier. It actually brings up something which I find most annoying about ASP.NET - and this is not a political point! Why exactly...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Nice sample and methodology from Robert Downey (obvious joke omitted), shows some really interesting (to me at least) insights into the workings of ViewState (you may be noticing a pattern here :-))
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Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Was having a look at this article by Peter A. Bromberg Ph.D. (don't know if that's his given name ;-)) over at Eggheadcafe.com, I always found it a bit annoying that DataSets serialized to XML only....
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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In a previous post, I mentioned I used BZip2 for my compression - mainly because, it's simple, offers the best XML compression for a generic algorithm - IMHO, i.e., not one designed specifically for...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Just a first stab at this, uses some classes I used in another project (I'll attribute the compression code later...I believe I got it from the Sharpziplib stuff - with some modifications - I'll stick...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Had a nice, relaxing holiday, read a few books, I can recommend Charles Petzold's Code and kind of recommend Homer, Sussman and Howard's Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 - I say 'kind of' because I found it...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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I've posted a couple of times about using RSS from ASP.NET, so this interested me a fair bit, Jason Salas has posted a nice server control which allows very simple generation of RSS feeds based on a...
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Just noticed this from the Scaled Composites website:
PAUL G. ALLEN CONFIRMED ASLONG-RUMORED SPONSOR OF SPACESHIPONEAllen Sponsors Scaled Composites’ Cutting-Edge X-Prize Entry, Attends...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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This is also pretty nice
:-P
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I'm working...hmm...thought I'd mention a very odd bug I came across yesterday at
work - which had me puzzled for about a day and a half...
I had written an application (the Portal I've mentioned...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Very useful...http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/
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ASP.NET has a problem with file downloads...basically if you use Response.WriteFile(fileName),
the entire file is buffered in memory before its' downloaded - this is NOT good for
scalability. To get...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Hmm...got a new swish 3G mobile phone, the NEC
e606, got a pretty good deal - works out cheaper than my old phone with a GPRS
package - but with 10 times tha bandwidth and no restrictions on VPN ports...
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This discussion on Slashdothas
finally made my mind up. I have been a reader of Slashdot for a number of years,
I believe I started reading it in the first month it existed. I'm even one of...
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