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Lutz Reflector now owned by Red Gate

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:01:05 GMT

Lutz Reflector, the free .NET disassembler every developer developer should have, has been purchased by Red Gate software. Red Gate has stated they will continue to provide the tool for free.

SubSonic Scaling

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:31:11 GMT

Rob runs some tests with millions of records to see how SubSonic holds up with respect to speed and memory use.

Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:46:03 GMT

In the recent relaunch of this site, I created a new custom skin for Subtext. Since this is just a personal site, I threw things together fairly quickly, testing along the way with Firefox3 and IE7. Once I was getting closer to complete, I took a look at my new site in all the usual browsers, including IE6. Ugh, it looked terrible. I gave it some thought and made some decisions about supporting IE6. I'm not going to support it. Not on this site and not on others that I have a say in. I'm not talking about leaving my site unusable for IE6 users - they just won't get as good of an experience. I'm not alone with this decision. Read on to see why I am no longer supporting IE6.

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

BlogEngine.net Post Security

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:46:10 GMT

BlogEngine.net 1.3/1.4 supports user roles. But we can't seem to be able to make it mandatory for users to sign in to see blog posts. That's not something you usually want on a public blog, but maybe for a corporate blog.

ASP.NET Browsers Filter!!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Yesterday .NET SP1 released and many new features for ASP.NET where added. But yesterday i also discovered a feature that ASP.NET has from version 2.0 Let's say we have a button. We can decide what value will the properties have for different browsers!!! And we can do that with this way...

SubSonic v2.1 Controller and Utilities

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Recently, SubSonic v2.1 was released and we upgraded the code we've previously published to support this new version.

jQuery Content Slider Tutorial

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

This tutorial shows how to make an horizontal content slider with jQuery and a plugin called jFlow.

Would you put cartoons on your software startup's website?

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:31:02 GMT

We have strong opinions against stock photography for a corporate website, and went with an unconventional strategy for a software development firm. We've just revamped our website home page and wanted to invite you to visit it and let us know what you think.

Image Post Processing Caching

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:46:04 GMT

This article present a small class library that abstracts opening, modifying (applying effects, resizing, etc.), and caching images in ASP.NET.

Upgrading to SubSonic v2.1

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:46:09 GMT

I spent a few hours this morning doing the migration of our codebase and it seems to have gone smoothly. Migrating to v2.1 involved a few changes and this post will describe them briefly.

Which .NET Blogger Do Girls Like Better?

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:46:09 GMT

Find out which .NET blogger is more popular with the ladies. Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Jeff Atwood, or Joel Spolsky I received an invite to Google Ad Planner. As I was playing around with this new tool, I was really blown away by how much information Google has collected on specific websites. So much so that I wanted to share this tool with my readers, but I couldn't come up with an interesting way to demonstrate the capabilities. Until I started looking up some of my favorite bloggers and saw the almost embarrassing balance between females and males.

Metrosexual Developers

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:16:02 GMT

A blog post I wrote on the value and importance of looking good as a software developer.

10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Just like its predecessor, SQL Server 2008 is taking its sweet time to actually ship. However, unlike its predecessor, it won't just be a "worthwhile upgrade". It will kick ass. Here are the top 10 reasons why.

IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team. As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after Firefox 2 shipped and it seems that they wanted to continue the tradition.

Put Microsoft In Perspective

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:08:33 GMT

I was a huge Microsoft fan, using everything from Microsoft without even bother to look for alternatives.But not any more...

Spolsky's Paradox

Mon, 05 May 2008 22:16:04 GMT

What do you think will change in the way we hire software engineers in the next decade?

Why you should not place your whole site in an UpdatePanel

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:01:04 GMT

Three significant reasons why you should avoid using an UpdatePanel to encapsulate your entire site and provide "navigation" by refreshing content areas.

Five recommendations for starting a startup with ASP.NET

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:16:03 GMT

Here are five practical pieces of advice for developers who want to build a web startup, and use ASP.NET to do it.

Should you judge a software engineer based on their hygiene?

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:16:02 GMT

"Although you may have landed on this page thinking you'd get clever insights on how to tell a coworker that bathing is not optional, I'm actually talking about their computer desktop hygiene."

From Developer to Technical Manager

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Organizations with an outdated organizational structure have got to wake up and change before it's too late. They will either lose or ruin their people. Either way, the company loses because people are the company.

Standalone Silverlight Applications (Moonlight)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:16:03 GMT

"Last year we created a framework to run Silverlight applications as native applications. At the time we called those applications moonlight desklets. The desklets are Silverlight applications that run in standalone mode, with full access to the entire Mono API stack (as opposed to be limited to the .NET subset for the web) and that can optionally render without frames."

.NET Obfuscators

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:46:13 GMT

Comprehensive list of all .NET obfuscators available today and online reviews.

jQuery Skinned Login Control

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:16:01 GMT

Skin an ASP.NET login control with some simple CSS and jQuery for a more dynamic look and feel.

Massive BlogEngine.Net Security Hole - Fix Provided

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:16:02 GMT

A massive security hole in BlogEngine.net was just revealed that allows anyone to see your passwords... Danny Douglass explains the issue and provides a patched BlogEngine.Core assembly to resolve the issue until the next release of BlogEngine is available.