MVC CAPTCHA for Preview Release 3

submitted by zigamorph 12 days, 8 hours ago

coderjournal.com — Since my last release of the MVC toolkit some major changes have taken place in the MVC Framework. I am going to do a quick run through of how they changed the MVC CAPTCHA for the better. And what ActionParameters are and how they can benefit you. read more...

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Turn Google App Engine into your own Personal Content Delivery Network

published 24 days, 3 hours ago, submitted by zigamorph 24 days, 8 hours ago

coderjournal.com — As anybody who has run a growing website or blog knows, response time is going to get worse with the more users you have visiting your site. The users come from all angles, RSS feeds, homepage visits, search engine visits, people sealing your static files that you host, and pretty much anything else that can be served over HTTP. The solution to this problem is to off load your static content on to a Content Delivery Network or CDN. CDN providers cost a lot of money though, so it is nothing for us mere mortals with one server can afford. But thanks to Google anyone can now run their own CDN for free on Googles servers. Lucky for you and me Google has made the process really painless and you can even have the CDN under you own domain name. In my case static.coderjournal.com. read more...

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Give Your ASP.NET Applications Velocity

published 1 month ago, submitted by zigamorph 1 month, 1 day ago

coderjournal.com — Scaling ASP.NET Application just got easier with a new technology that Microsoft has just released that they have dubbed codename “Velocity”. This product is still in the early stages of development, but it is meant as a direct competitor against memcache. read more...

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Microsoft Source Analysis Still Needs Work

submitted by zigamorph 1 month, 12 days ago

coderjournal.com — However, I am one of those strange developers, according to Microsoft, that likes to use tabs and have my declartion of using statements outside of my namespace. If I were to take this tool seriously I would have to be shunned from the Microsoft Campus and shammed in to never coding again. I guess I should start including the Rob Conery SupressMessage on my code: [System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Design", "1000:YouShouldntBeCoding", MessageId = "1#", Justification="That's not very nice... but I'm used to it :p")] read more...

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World Of HTTP/1.1 Status Codes

submitted by zigamorph 1 month, 16 days ago

coderjournal.com — Most developers are familiar with the HTTP 1.0 Status Codes, that have been recently popularized by the SEO guys. We have all heard that you should use 301 Moved Permanently instead of 302 Temporary Redirect. What many of the SEO guys won’t tell you, because they don’t know any better, is that they are using the RFC 1945 HTTP/1.0 Standard that was released in May 1996, that is right it is about 12 years old. The newest HTTP/1.1 Standard, RFC 2616, was released in June 1999, and made some pretty drastic changes the the 3xx Redirect Status Codes. The goal of this post is to inform and familiarize developers with the HTTP/1.1 Standard, specifically the 3xx Redirect Status Code changes. This can have drastic effect on how you handle requests on your website and optimize your site for search engines. read more...

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What I learned about SEO from Celebrity Jeopardy!

submitted by zigamorph 1 month, 21 days ago

coderjournal.com — As you can see Norm MacDonald playing the character of Burt Reynolds transforms the category in Celebrity Jeopordy!, on purpose for comedy reasons. In my analogy Google is going to be the Burt Reynolds of your search, however instead of finding the wrong words on purpose it is going to do it because it is a dumb machine that does what it is asked even if the results are not contextually accurate. If you don’t control your URL, which is one of the highest ranking keywords on your site. You could end up decreasing the effectiveness of your keywords, as an almost duplicate keyword penalty. Granted I don’t know if something like this exists as a penalty, but when you are dealing with SEO it never hurts to be as careful and precise as possible. read more...

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2 Easy Steps To Turn Your Blog Into An OpenID Gateway

published 1 month, 21 days ago, submitted by zigamorph 1 month, 22 days ago

coderjournal.com — Many of you probably have heard of OpenID, but have never had a chance to use it. However, I predict that most of you reading this will have used it by the end of the year. I can make this prediction with an almost 100% certainty because there is a growing movement behind it that has many big players actively buying developing and integrating their platforms with the OpenID protocol. To facilitate my prediction, of most of you using OpenID by the end of the year, I am going to give you 2 easy steps to turn your blog, or any website, in to a OpenID gateway. That will work for OpenID 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 versions of the protocol. read more...

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Extension Method Hack To Get Around NullReferenceException’s

published 2 months, 11 days ago, submitted by zigamorph 2 months, 12 days ago

coderjournal.com — Today I came across an interesting extension method pattern that I didn’t know how the runtime would react. Because I was calling a method from an object that was obviously null. Check it out it is pretty cool. read more...

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