Development Notes, News and Ramblings
Via John Conwell. I love this idea.
Speaking of usefull macros, this is one I’ve used for a a few years and thought might be usefull. It calls the ADODB Data Link Properties dialog (shown below). After you go through the dialog picking your data source, database, and connection settings, it dumps out the connection […]
Robert McLaws has this gizmo that lets you right click on any folder and start serving it from the built in VS 2005 web server.
Link here
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Detailed discussion describing how Microsoft IT uses SQL Server 2005 to improve data security for its line of business applications. SQL Server 2005 enabled Microsoft IT to implement column-level encryption together with a robust, and yet easy-to-use encryption key management framework.
Brad Wilson posted his slides from Code Camp discussing TDD in .NET.
Link here
There was a time, about 3 years ago, when I thought Linux might have a chance to make some inroads on the desktop. Today I had an experience that cemented a suspicion that I’ve been harboring for some time. Its over. Windows won. There will not be a knight of shining alternative coming down the […]
MSDN Patterns and Practices has a write up on Security Code Reviews.
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Dino points out that creating new controls in ASP.NET 2.0 has become easier. Especially in connection with several changes to the control namespace itself whcih allows a developer to derive from new and improved built in controls.
Control Class
Base Class
Ver.
Behavior
WebControl
Control
1.x
Adds an array of UI properties such as style settings, colors, font, borders
BaseDataBoundControl
WebControl
2.0
Incorporates the basic mechanism […]
The best thing about Mobility Email is that it’s totally mobile. You can take it anywhere with you on an iPod Shuffle (or any other USB device). Simply plug your USB key into any Windows computer in the world and boom. There’s all your email and all your contacts.
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“… The empowered individual can create a media company, using blog software; create a manufacturing company, using somebody else’s factory and somebody else’s distribution; create a multinational enterprise, using nothing more than a Skype line. “
Jeff Jarvis explains how modern technology has given some smaller companies an edge. Nice article.
I’ve been browsing back and forth over this site. Every few months I remember and go check them out. One of these days I’ll have an app that can use this type of caching….
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So here is a useful link to help anyone who needs to have mp3 id tags fixed. I’ve tried it myself and it does a pretty good job all around.
Link here
If you have any ideas of using SilverPop for as an Application Service Provider for email marketing, better think twice.
Not quite what you had pictured – right? But its true. Boris is German. That just really tickles me. Read all about it here and look at his work here as well as here. What I want to know is how the heck he lost his German accent. I’ve been here 25 years and still have […]
This week I came across an issue that took a little bit of research to figure out. So for posterity, here is a solution that worked.
When working with user controls it frequently becomes necessary to notify the container of the user control that some event occurred within the control itself. Especially when the result of […]
ore color scheme generators. I just love these little suckers because I am color palette challenged. Hence being able to play around with palette to find something I like is just really nifty.
My first pick in this crop is the SitePro Color Scheme Chooser – it has features such as a sliding color picker that […]
Fritz Onion discusses the new ControlState property which allows you to disable the overall Viewstate of a page (?) yet still retain the ability of various controls to respond to events that do require state – paging in a grid for example
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At the same time Fritz also points out that the ViewState itself […]
Today I decided to note all interesting links that I came across during lunch.You’d be surprised what turns up when you eat at your desk.
Have you heard of WWF? No its not the World Wrestling Foundation. Not at all. WWF is a workflow engine/ state machine.So here are a bunch of links to it […]
I just had to copy a whole section from Phil’s excellent blog.
After spending some time gathering requirements, the whole time being pressured by the business team, the tech team delivers a rushed estimate. Unfortunately for the tech team, the business types have already promised delivery of the product in half the time of the estimate.
No […]
Several years ago I found my way into blogging via Radio Userland. Dave Winer had built himself quite a site hosting some of the very earliest bloggers in our industry. One of these early adopters of blogging in general and “audio blogging” in particular was 80’s MTV VJay Adam Curry. So there I was just getting my […]
Approximately three years ago, in anticipation of the release of VS 2003, a number of reference books dealing with C# hit the market. Anyone remember Drayton’s “C# In A Nutshell” ? Or how about Herb Schildt’s “Complete Reference of C#” ? Seems so long ago now. Alongside these other books, Andrew Troelsen’s first edition “C# […]