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...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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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...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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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...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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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...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Hooray...my dreams finally realised :-) Primate
Programming
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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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Very useful...http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/
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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...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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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...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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More changes, you've probably noticed the feed taken from http://weblogs.asp.net on the right hand column...this is done using a slightly modified version of the RSS Feed control I posted earlier - no...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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I've posted about this topic a few times, it's really nice to see that someone has finally given a practical, free method of doing this. This implementation uses WS-E to do this, meaning that you add...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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There's an odd issue when you try to use Passport on Windows Server 2003 - basically, the default 'Secure Level' of Passport is 10, unfortunately if you don't use SSL this means Passport won't work...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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This looks to be very useful indeed. Found it on the Devhawk blog. Here's some blurb from the page:
Summary: If you are involved in designing and developing applications, you probably need to control...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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So annoying...many nights at around midnight, my connection just seems to freeze. Helpfully, my provider says 'well just restart your router'...hmm...so, I apologise if you're having problems...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Nice article on CodeProject on generating fractal snow...and a nice screensaver (which now works on multiple monitors) by Thomas Petricek who has also written a couple of other pretty nice articles...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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OK, can anyone explain why I can't check explicitly if I can lock a file before reading from it (i.e., check that no-one else is locking the file before trying to read from it). I'm using the...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Been reading my recent posts and blog comments...umm...sorry, in a bit of a moaning mood of late. I really have to get down to it and contribute a bit more - I have some changes to make to this site...
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Today the Design Preview of new versions of ASP.NET happens in London...but I have a prior engagement and can't go...wahhhh!!!
If anyone from the ASP.NET design team is reading this - I love travel -...
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The saga continues, I can recieve mail OK, but I can't send it from my server; now, it works from the smtp local server on my main machine so I don't think it's a Firewall thing - I'm very confused!...
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