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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 :-))
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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....
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I wrote in a previous post that I was planning to have a poke around with ViewState, extending the stuff I've done on compression into encryption and signing etc...well there's good and bad news for...
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In a previous post, I mentioned I used BZip2 for my compression - mainly because, it's simple, offers the best XML compression for a generic algorithm - IMHO, i.e., not one designed specifically for...
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Just a first stab at this, uses some classes I used in another project (I'll attribute the compression code later...I believe I got it from the Sharpziplib stuff - with some modifications - I'll stick...
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Had a nice, relaxing holiday, read a few books, I can recommend Charles Petzold's Code and kind of recommend Homer, Sussman and Howard's Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 - I say 'kind of' because I found it...
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I've posted a couple of times about using RSS from ASP.NET, so this interested me a fair bit, Jason Salas has posted a nice server control which allows very simple generation of RSS feeds based on a...
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Just noticed this from the Scaled Composites website:
PAUL G. ALLEN CONFIRMED ASLONG-RUMORED SPONSOR OF SPACESHIPONEAllen Sponsors Scaled Composites’ Cutting-Edge X-Prize Entry, Attends...
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Hooray...my dreams finally realised :-) Primate
Programming
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This is also pretty nice
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I'm working...hmm...thought I'd mention a very odd bug I came across yesterday at
work - which had me puzzled for about a day and a half...
I had written an application (the Portal I've mentioned...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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ASP.NET has a problem with file downloads...basically if you use Response.WriteFile(fileName),
the entire file is buffered in memory before its' downloaded - this is NOT good for
scalability. To get...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Hmm...got a new swish 3G mobile phone, the NEC
e606, got a pretty good deal - works out cheaper than my old phone with a GPRS
package - but with 10 times tha bandwidth and no restrictions on VPN ports...
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This discussion on Slashdothas
finally made my mind up. I have been a reader of Slashdot for a number of years,
I believe I started reading it in the first month it existed. I'm even one of...
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I'm currently on holiday - hence no new entries. Be back in a few days - lots of cool
stuff on Pocket PC programming with the Compact Framework coming up :-)
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