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Dumb Microsoft design

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:03:24 GMT

System.Web.UI.Pair

PowerFailureDetector.exe

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:12:14 GMT

This little application can detect when you get a power failure (and thus you are now running on your UPS).

ASP.NET Wizard Control Serious Bugs in Navigation

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:50:29 GMT

Wizard seems to get confused between its navigation controls in its different steps

AnkhSvn vs. Intellisense (Bug fixed)

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:12:12 GMT

The problem seems to have been fixed...

AnkhSvn vs. Intellisense

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:55:04 GMT

AnkhSvn causes Intellisense to malfunction.

NHibernate in Action, Working with persistent objects, Using business

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:58:39 GMT

Quote from book: "Notice that it's almost never correct to override Equals() on a subclass and include another property in the comparison. It's tricky to satisfy the requirements that equality be both symmetric and transitive in this case; and, more important, the business key wouldn't correspond to any well-defined candidate natural key in the database (subclass properties may be mapped to a different table)."

Oracle Outer Joins, non-commutative join conditions

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:22:06 GMT

In this post I am going to show how Outer Join Conditions do not behave as expected and in other words are not commutative

NHibernate Blog

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:51:02 GMT

A New NHibernate Blog, sharing ideas, questions, and observations on NHibernate.

Three C# 2.0/3.0 Syntaxes That You Didn't Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:31:02 GMT

Working with other colleagues, I found these C# syntaxes are still not well-known and used

UK Software Consultant Nightmare: The IT Recruiting Agents

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:16:02 GMT

The definite guide to the tricks and tactics employed by some IT recruting agents that made the UK software consultant's recruting process a nightmare.

Dynamic Image Map

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:31:04 GMT

An extension to you normal Image Map, this one is actually interactive, using javascript instead of having to use Flash.

"Web 2.0" - A Lame Marketing Term That Means Absolutely Nothing!

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:12:58 GMT

I always love it when you get a cheesy executive/manager who really stretches & attempts to sound technical but fails badly by using the term "Web 2.0". First off, this term means absolutely nothing specific. I once had a non-technical CIO tell me that "JavaScript based Web Services are what Web 2.0 is all about". Right then and there I knew he was really reaching for the stars to sound Savvy or technical, but in reality it really comes off pretty cheesy to a developer.

Accessing Other Web Elements in Visual Studio 2005 Web Site

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:59:41 GMT

Relation between the different elements in a VS 2005 Webiste like User Controls, Pages, and MasterPages and how they access each other's members.

Team Foundation Server, very smart (not)

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:55:41 GMT

Installing TFS, can you do it?

Google Search, Special Characters

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:50:08 GMT

Google Search and special characters?

Coming Up!

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:24:30 GMT

Development Goodies to be published soon.

Employers, wake up!! they already drank the coffee

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:43:35 GMT

Microsoft Certification and how fake it is.

Crystal Reports, you little bastard you... (updated)

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:41:11 GMT

A problem in Crystal Reports + ASP.NET and the solution.

Google Chrome

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:36:13 GMT

First Glance at Google Chrome.

Multiple Fields Validator - An ASP.NET Validation Control

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:59:09 GMT

Discussing the MultipleFieldsValidator that validates a group of fields in which at least one is required, like phone number, mobile phone number, or email. It inherits the BaseValidator and uses some new cool ASP.NET 2.0 features.

Agile Databases

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:37:33 GMT

Databases that change require some kind of version control.

Default.aspx Mysteriously Requested

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:35:12 GMT

Explaining how sometimes Internet Explorer makes a request to the default.aspx page.

ASP.NET Menu, Click instead of Hover

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:18:54 GMT

A way to make the ASP.NET Menu Control respond to clicks instead of the default behavior of responding to mouse hover using a javascript override.

How Not To Compromise Security Through ASP.NET Validators

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:31:11 GMT

A guide to closing some security holes that might be left open when using or building ASP.NET Validator controls.

The Three Steps of Building an ASP.NET Validator Control

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:46:10 GMT

A clear walkthrough on how to build an ASP.NET validator control in three steps with an example of how to apply this to build a credit card number validator.