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Configuring AppFabric Session Hosts Dynamically
Windows Server AppFabric has finally brought a performant, fault-taulerant session provider to ASP.NET. Originally, this technology was part of the Velocity Project. Very cool stuff. There are lots of articles out there about how to configure this new service via web.config. Now, I love web.config as much as the next person, but it makes my deployment process painful. Sure there is the new web.config transformation process, but it requires the code to go back through the build process which makes it hard to move from environment to environment. To solve these and other problems, we have a custom configuration system to handle environment specific settings.
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Extracting EXIF metadata from JPG images
Drew Noakes has written a great EXIF metadata extractor for JPG images in Java which was ported to C# by Ferret Renaud. This allows you to pull out the EXIF data like camera model & date taken. You can also access the width & height of the image without loading it into a .NET image object.
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Content-Centric Networking
Content-centric networking is a fundamental change in how communication is handled between distributed devices. It is PARC's vision for taking the next step in data communication — a change in network architecture to make content retrieval by name, not location, the fundamental operation of the network. Their approach replaces the machine-oriented IP model with a named content model as the basis for the central protocol that connects networks.