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Honeypot Captcha - new Subskimet Captcha control

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:01:02 GMT

Comment spam bots love form fields

Rainbow Hash Cracking

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:31:01 GMT

The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password "Fgpyyih804423" in 160 seconds. Most people would consider that password fairly secure....

TDD vs. Design discussion

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:16:01 GMT

Blog entry from JP Boodhoo about when to use UML diagramming and how it fits in to the TDD/Agile paradigm. Good read.

C# 3.0 Collection Initializers, Duck Typing and ISupportsAdd

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:16:03 GMT

Some thoughts and brainstorming about how to make collection initializers more universally usable, and some thoughts about duck typing in C#.

IHttpContext And Other Interfaces For Your Duck Typing Benefit

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:01:01 GMT

Phil Haack has created a number of Interfaces for various classes in the System.Web namespace including IHttpContext, IHttpRequest, IHttpResponse and IHttpSession. This allows us to easily mock these classes for testing and to use our own implementations of the provided framework classes.

Encapsulation and Automatic properties in C# 3.0

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:31:02 GMT

With C# 3.0 MS realeases Automatic Properties as a simplified encapsulation that generates getters and setters for a similary automated backing field. But is this really the way to go? Should you have dumb getters/setters or are you violating YAGNI when doing so? What are the rational behind MS decision to do so. This post address all thoose questions.

Monorail #2 : Layouts & Rescues

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:16:01 GMT

Covers layouts and rescue NVelocity files and how you use them with MonoRail.

DNK New Features: Profiles, Gravatars, Sortable Upcoming Stories

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:01:01 GMT

The DotNetKicks.com open source project has picked up quite a bit of steam lately, over 75 commits have been made to the SubVersion trunk in the past week (rss feeds). It is great that the project is moving again, thanks to the wonders of open source and a great community. The two big new features this week are user profiles and upcoming story sorting.

One Shell Command to delete all svn hidden folders

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:31:02 GMT

If you are using Subversion source control, you will be familiar with the .svn folders that SVN adds to any folder under the source control, these folders are used to keep track of the current state of the folder, but sometimes, I want to copy my code and get rid of these folders, and instead of doing this manually which becomes a headache if you have a very deep hierarchy of folders, this is a Shell Script comes to the rescue

Attention: PHP executes twice as fast when it's run on ASP.NET

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:46:02 GMT

Phalanger, the tool for compiling PHP into .NET binaries, can improve the execution speed of PHP5 applications twofold. In addition it extends PHP5 so that it can incorporate portions of the .NET framework and it allows for Visual Studio integration.

LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression)

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:31:01 GMT

Scott Guthrie continues his series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. "LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions to query the database with them, as well as update/insert/delete data."

SQL SERVER - 2005 - Introduction and Explanation to sqlcmd

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:31:01 GMT

I decided to write this article to respond to request of one of usergroup, which requested that they would like to learn sqlcmd 101. SQL Server 2005 has introduced new utility sqlcmd to run ad hoc Transact-SQL statements and scripts from command prompt.

Using SingleTagSectionHandler Instead Of appSettings

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:31:02 GMT

As an alternative to appSettings you can use SingleTagSectionHandler to store settings in a web.config file. Learn how.

Easily Test Custom Controls Inside of Visual Studio

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:16:01 GMT

Here's a quick way easily test and debug your custom WinForms controls right inside of Visual Studio without having to launch your entire application.

MbUnit 2.4.1 Released

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:01:01 GMT

MbUnit 2.4.1 has been released

Create an HttpModule to Process Wildcard Extension Mapping in ASP.NET

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:22:34 GMT

After you have configured IIS to allow wildcard extensions through ASP.NET how do you handle these request in ASP.NET. The answer is a custom httpModule and I extend this to a simple custom httpHandler.

The Future of BizTalk/WCF/WF

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:49:54 GMT

A look at what the challenges that a future BizTalk release with deep integration with WCF and WF might bring.

Designing Code for Reusability

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:20:20 GMT

Some great advice on using the features of C# to provide consistently extensible frameworks.

Project SilverLight 1.1 - Creating an iTunes-like media player

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:46:02 GMT

I found out about Jose Fajardo's journey on learning Silverlight. Jose decided to write an iTunes-like media player using Silverlight. He has documented his development in about 20 blog posts here.

Behave# merges with NBehave

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:19:20 GMT

I am proud to say that Behave# and Morgan Persson's NBehave project have combined into one OSS project under the moniker of NBehave. We decided to keep the NBehave name because as Morgan kindly put it: "...it connects to the cousin framework(s) in other languages/technologies like RSpec/NSpec, JUnit/NUnit, Hibernate/NHibernate etc. so it would only be natural to have RBehave/JBehave and NBehave."

Static analysis and source code querying

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:58:33 GMT

A brief overview article about .NET and Java static analysis tools - applications that analyse source code to find bugs or gather code metrics.

The most common software security mistakes

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

Through my humble experience with software development I've seen developers making fetal security mistakes without even feeling that they are doing something wrong. So I've decided to gather these common mistakes in a list so it would be easier to avoid. Through this article I will give examples regardless to the used technology but the concepts applies to all technologies. So here we go

5 Elements of Style For Error Messages

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:01:02 GMT

Five stylistic elements to consider when developing an error message UI for your applications.

HeadScriptManager - Registering scripts into the page header

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:46:02 GMT

A class library for registering scripts and stylesheets into the page header with ASP.NET 2.0.

LINQ to SQL and Serialization

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:44:18 GMT

LINQ to SQL provides entity objects that can be used easily for object access to data members. But these objects can be difficult to deal with if you need to serialize them in Web Services or in other ways because relationships are often circular. Here's a discussion of things to watch out for and how you can get around the issues.