New, useful .NET weblog (well new to me!)

Just discovered the dotnetjunkies weblogs , where I found thesereally useful links to a bunch of interesting .NET stuff...more later (back to blogging again :-))

Hmm...might have a solution...

Well, the problem I was having with connection pool appears to have gone...all I did was reinstall (well, repair) my VS.NET 2003 install. Odd these little strange bugs!

Is cheering on Viruses like cheering on Terrorists? Umm...not even close!

Read this on Cameron Reilly's blog: This saysa lot about the intelligence of some of the folks on Slashdot. Are they having a joke? Perhaps. But cheering on a virus is kind of like cheering on a terrorist. Now I'm sorry, this is such a dumb statement, for me…

Code Complete 2

Code Complete by Steve McConnellis, in my opinion (and many others), the best book ever about the art and discipline of coding. Basically, it's just the bible of how to design and build quality software. So, I'm really looking forward to Code Complete 2 (link…

Wow, use HTC within Mozilla!

This comment to my moan about thisis VERY cool: I think I've solved your problem! I've successfully developed a Mozilla wrapper for Microsoft's HTC files. It is encapsulated in a single XBL binding, so is exremely portable. The binding is small (4k) and…

Stuff on compressing .TEXT RSS feeds from Jeff Julian

Pretty useful if you don't have the ability to use IIS compression (or choose not to) - Jeff Julian has released a 'plugin' for .TEXT which enables you to compress the RSS feeds produced by .TEXT 0.95 - which is very useful, most of my traffic for instance…

Getting involved in dumb arguments...of when 'for' and 'foreach' can lead to idiocy...

I do have a tendency to get involved in pointless arguments in the ASP.NET Forums...a good example is this one, arguing about the performance of 'foreach' versus 'for'...any opinions from here - the crux of my argument is that for() will in general perform…

Even more on ViewState...well, my pet peeve on ASP.NET really...

I've been giving some more thought to the ViewState stuff I mentioned earlier. It actually brings up something which I find most annoying about ASP.NET - and this is not a political point! Why exactly can't 'ordinary' users see the source for ASP.NET, so far…

Really interesting sample on ViewState preservation for non-visible controls

Nice sample and methodology from Robert Downey (obvious joke omitted), shows some really interesting (to me at least) insights into the workings of ViewState (you may be noticing a pattern here :-))

Great article on Eggheadcafe.com on ultra-compact binary serialization of DataSets

Was having a look at this article by Peter A. Bromberg Ph.D. (don't know if that's his given name ;-)) over at Eggheadcafe.com, I always found it a bit annoying that DataSets serialized to XML only. Using the incredibly cool CompactFormatter, combined with the…