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Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:07 PM

Got Elmah?

Yeah, I didn't know what they were thinking either. Still, Scott Mitchell (remember him? ) and Atif Aziz have produced a great article on creating E rror L ogging M odules A nd H andlers. A neat set of tools to add error logging to your ASP.NET 1.1 applications
Posted by ksharkey | 6 Comments
Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:59 PM

Can ASP.NET Scale?

From Rob (comments and formatting mine): "The bandwidth usage (for http://weblogs.asp.net) alone jumped from about 300GB to 1.3TB (a month) in the past 6 months. Considering that www.asp.net, blogs.msdn.com, weblogs.asp.net, www.dotnetnuke.com (and about
Posted by ksharkey | 8 Comments
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:46 PM

Buy Visual Studio .NET 2003, get a boat load of fun

I've been reminded by The Powers That Be™ that I haven't provided enough public noise around Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 Special Edition . So, here we go. If you haven't purchased Visual Studio .NET 2003 yet (and if you haven't -- "Bad Zoot.
Posted by ksharkey | 6 Comments
Monday, September 27, 2004 11:35

MSDN += new RssFeeds() ';

Duncan has been working on our new RSS generation system . The new one he's created should be more flexible, accurate and up-to-date. He's looking for feedback on the new format as well. There are two changes we're really interested in feedback. First,
Posted by ksharkey | 1 Comments
Friday, September 24, 2004 3:33 PM

Blogjutsu vs. spam

In between my other e-mails, I get a fair bit of spam (as I'm sure all of you do as well). Every once & a while, I get one that I feel like researching a little. ( DNSStuff rocks for this) While spending a few moments tracking down the source of one,
Posted by ksharkey | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:15 PM

Rob Howard stalking update

Rob is interviewed in the latest (at least the last one I got) .NET Journal . Hear how he got connected with ASP.NET, a few code words and more fun info.
Posted by ksharkey | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:44 PM

Getting HIP with Stephen Toub

Two new items up on the ASP.NET Developer Center today. Stephen Toub (yes, that Stephen Toub ) has graced me with a fine article (and a great deal of patience) on creating CAPTCHAs for ASP.NET apps (including a very neat implementation using voice for
Posted by ksharkey | (Comments Off)
Monday, September 20, 2004 2:30 PM

Money/Quicken style interfaces for the Web

Scott's playing with Tabs , and it look pretty good (even in Firefox, although it comes down a little strangely): "Anywho, I was playing with the client-side code a bit and thought that it would be cool to take this concept a bit further and have collapsible-like
Posted by ksharkey | 2 Comments
Friday, September 17, 2004 3:46 PM

Websites without walls (or files)

via Fritz Onion : (bolding mine) I went to one other presentation by Scott Guthrie at VSLive! this week where he presented 'tips and tricks' for ASP.NET 2.0. If you're interested he has posted the slides and samples on his website http://www.scottgu.com
Posted by ksharkey | 1 Comments
Monday, September 13, 2004 5:48 PM

Change the world! (or at least a feature of ASP.NET 2.0)

As reported a while back. Please send in more feedback either here, or in the forums . The product team is listening! ASP.NET recently announced several changes to the naming of the special directories recognized by the runtime. The renamed directories
Posted by ksharkey | 12 Comments
Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:43 PM

Well, isn't that *special*?

The new page is up for the "Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 Special Edition" is up for those of you who are looking to spend a little ch-change, or if you have friends or family who haven't upgraded yet. What's in the box? (it's a big box) Visual
Posted by ksharkey | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:26 PM

Lean, Sublime Lines ???

One of Nokia's new phones doesn't have a keypad. Instead : "The sleek and sexy Nokia 7280 offers a completely new mobile phone design, foregoing the traditional keypad for a discreet keyless dial. A fine lacquer-inspired high-gloss finish, complemented
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Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:17 PM

Ports, reporting for duty...

While I love Fiddler for monitoring HTTP, and TCPTrace for SOAP traffic, I've never been able to grok Ethereal or NetMon for general TCP traffic (not to mention a lot of places hunt down these apps and threaten users with assorted medieval HR implements.
Posted by ksharkey | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:53 PM

Heard while exercising...

While I don't have great exercise stories like " some people ". I was listening to the radio while walking on the Treadmill of Doom ® , someone requested, "Can you play the song by Queen that sounds like that Vanilla Ice song?" Ugh.
Posted by ksharkey | 2 Comments
Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:23 PM

Interesting study of people viewing web pages

This study monitored people's eyes looking at various news sites to see hotspots, the effect of graphics, navigation and more. Small sample size, but some of the conclusions should be useful design fodder.
Posted by ksharkey | 15 Comments
Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:26 PM

Paul Wilson and OSS

Via Paul Wilson's blog : I've finally decided to make my WilsonWebForm open-source on SourceForge: The ASP.NET WilsonWebForm enables Multiple Forms and Non-PostBack Forms, finally allowing you to overcome this built-in ASP.NET restriction. This is a real
Posted by ksharkey | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:29 PM

Beta 2 Special Directory Names Changes

Words by Thomas Lewis. Music by Black Flag The Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft has announced a change pertaining to the naming of special directories used by ASP.NET 2.0. The following changes are being made to the special directories for ASP.NET
Posted by ksharkey | 28 Comments
 
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