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The .Net Coffee Break Show is back! Thursday 18th of June with Dino Esposito

2009-06-14T23:07:00Z

Developers.ie invites you to attend our regular webcast. What's new in ASP.NET 4.0 presented by Dino Esposito Summary : The keyword to understand what's new in the overall ASP.NET 4.0 platform is "more control". ASP.NET 4.0 is neither revolution nor refactoring of the architecture. It consists, instead, of a good number of small-scale changes that all go in the direction of providing developers with much more control of certain frequently used features of the existing framework. For example, ASP...(read more)

How to protect yourself against the latest SQL injection

2008-12-20T13:10:00Z

Now it's time to rejoice and be positive. Following my different posts about the latest SQL injection attacks, I got all sort of comments. Roughly half of the commenters saying I am a moron, why you don't go back to school and protect your databases, it's all your fault, don't blame OUR Microsoft! The other half being more positive and more indulgent and trying to know more about the threat, even thanking me for breaking the news. I feel myself closer to the latter crowd, because those are the guys...(read more)

Hundreds of websites under attack and Microsoft are you doing something?

2008-12-19T11:47:00Z

Following my last post on the subject of SQL injection, this story is far from being finished. First thanks to all your comments, I really applied most of the advices, licke checking against query string vulnerabilities,XSS, etc... I don't use dynamic SQL queries, only stored procedures. I don't say it's perfect but all the basics are covered. But the attacks are still going on. I know from which server it's coming on, but I still don't know how they do it. However I raise the alarm again today,...(read more)

Warning, new nasty worm on the loose, be very careful

2008-12-16T18:41:00Z

Hi folks Raise the alarm, it seems a nasty new worm is on the loose. Sadly too late for me, my SQL database has been infected twice in the past ten days, and even if I have some backup I lost some data :-( I identified the culprit as Jpdog.3322 and it comes as a javascript code. Now it’s really serious thing, last week when I google it, I had 6 pages of results, now today more than 11000 results and going on strongly. If you search for it, you will see that nobody has really offered so far a remedy...(read more)

Modifying the HTTP Response Using Filters

2008-12-08T00:44:00Z

When a browser requests an ASP.NET page from a web server, the ASP.NET engine takes that request through a number of steps that, together, generate the resulting markup, which is returned to the requesting browser for display. The stages in this process are referred to as the HTTP Pipeline and perform tasks like authentication, authorization, and having the requested page render its content. During one of the later stages in the HTTP Pipeline the rendered markup is handed off to a response filter...(read more)

Evolutility lightweight framework for heavy lifting

2008-12-08T00:40:00Z

Evolutility is a generic web UI for database applications. With it you can build CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) web applications simply by providing the metadata describing your application UI and database mapping. No hand-coding is required. Read more......(read more)

The .Net Coffee Break show 10 - Parallel programming with Stephen Toub - 11th December

2008-12-08T00:29:00Z

Join our next webcast! 11th December 2008 Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast. Our next speaker is Stephen Toub, Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft Parallel programming with .NET Summary : With the Microsoft .NET Framework today, correctly introducing parallelism into libraries and applications is difficult, time consuming, and error-prone. However, as the hardware industry shifts towards multi-core and manycore processors,...(read more)

The .Net Coffee Break Show 9 - Josh Holmes - Leveraging IronRuby in Silverlight

2008-12-01T22:57:00Z

Join our next webcast! 3rd of December 2008 Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast. Our next speaker is Josh Holmes, Microsoft Architect Evangelist. Leveraging IronRuby in Silverlight Summary : Join Josh Holmes as he talks about his two favorite technologies – IronRuby and Silverlight. A perfect joining of two great technologies – IronRuby brings the dynamic abilities to your code that XAML gives your UI. From animations to logic to simple HTML DOM manipulation - it's...(read more)

For your screenshots...FireShot

2008-12-01T13:36:00Z

FireShot is an in-browser tool for Firefox and Internet Explorer that allows you to take screenshots and then annotate, edit, organize and export them. Screen-grabbing is a common activity for Web developers to document previews of Web application prototypes and share them with clients, and FireShot gives you a feature-packed in-browser option to manage and streamline your screenshot needs....(read more)

How a screen reader see your page, use Fangs

2008-12-01T13:34:00Z

Fangs is an in-browser tool for Firefox that emulates what a screen reader “sees” when visiting a Web page. Its function is simple: to output a transcript of what a screen reader will read out to a user when a Web page is visited. It’s a helpful tool for quickly analyzing if you’ve structured your content effectively so that it’s understandable and usable by vision-impaired individuals, without forcing you to learn to use (and purchase) a screen-reader application such as JAWS or Windows Eyes ....(read more)

YSlow

2008-12-01T13:32:00Z

YSlow is a Firefox extension created by Yahoo! developers that integrates with Firebug (therefore you need to have Firebug enabled for it to work). YSlow analyzes a Web page for front-end performance and, in its simplest usage, gives you a letter grade (A being the best and F being the poorest) for each of the best practices for speeding up your website . YSlow also allows you to inspect in detail things that are essential for a high-performance website. For example, the Stats view gives you the...(read more)

10 handwritten fonts you can't miss

2008-12-01T13:21:00Z

Check this good selection of free handwritten fonts for your web development! Check also this page for more free fonts...(read more)

DebugBar

2008-12-01T13:03:00Z

DebugBar is similar to the Firebug extension for Firefox, except that it works for Internet Explorer. Download here......(read more)

Is Linq for SQL truly dead?

2008-12-01T11:17:00Z

It's really a sad situation when you invest your time and money in new technologies and to see it abandoned or deprecated by their creators. I am usually cautious in adopting new stuff from Redmond too quickly and wait the version 2 like I did with Silverlight. Regarding Linq, recently I started to implement it in some of my projects, mostly for simple queries. Now a new debate is going on following this comment by the Entity Framework team. "We’re making significant investments in the Entity Framework...(read more)

Event Reminder: John Resig on our webcast tomorrow!

2008-11-18T10:12:00Z

This is a really cool event tomorrow. We have THE creator of JQuery John Resig on the .Net Coffee Break Show! Check www.developers.ie for more details and the registration. I believe this is a great opportunity to talk to the man himself, and see him demonstrate live all the fantastic things JQuery can offer to all developers. I am on the JQuery bandwagon since a while now, and it's surprising how much can be achieved with this library and Ajax toolkit. Regarding the show, we are constantly looking...(read more)