.NET Blog - Chris Frazier Style

Uh-oh. I did a little finishing touches to my latest application, Risk Analysis  and it looks like Visual Studio doesn't like something I've done lately.

It took about 3.5 minutes to build/compile a 6 page ASP.NET project. That ain't good. So it looks like I'll be spending Monday doing some spring cleaning on the Punisher. Oh boy.

One more thing - ScottW, you're the dude. man. whateva.

All I had to do this morning to enable cross-posting from my non-read space was change the url in web.config to point @ weblogs.asp.net . Nice:)

Oh, yeah - so I don't have to google these later/this weekend:

CommentAPI 

TrackBack

...from code monkey:P. Rollin right along, I'm getting more used to using patterns in my regular speech (as a developer, anyway:)

Trouble is, as I've said before, that I'm a sloooooooow reader. I guess I need to work on that a bit. Disregarding some of the more obvious design pattern speech impediments I'm experiencing, here's a few things I'm trying to work out for InfiniBlogWeb:

• "pluggable" data storage. Meaning filesystem/db. I'll see what I come up with on that one:)
• Comments. Yeah. Comments would be good.
• Pingback/Trackback/Per-post referrals
• These won't mean a lot to my blog perse, but I think in general are good things to have in a blog engine, no?
• Rotate Brain. eek. Mini-Gallery, personalization type stuff that really serves no visible purpose besides posterity.
• Refactor based on some of the design patterns I'm learning. I've gotten some suggestions, but honestly don't have a grasp for what they mean yet. I need to read more, I guess.
• External interface for what I wanna do here. I don't want to ever have to see my blog or IE to make these posts, tho they do have thier place IMHO.

That's the best I can come up with for the moment. We'll see what shakes up in the near future...cya.

Last night I couldn't go to sleep, so I hopped on my laptop @ 1:00am.

The funny part is,  when my modem stopped hand-shaking, one of my favorite 'softies popped up on Windows Messenger.

I won't go into a lot of the exact things we discussed as I don't know how this person feels about personal disclosure, but I can tell you my initial thought and thus my initial message to him:

"You're a nerd."

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Well, I'm sure that lots of webloggers will fall into that trap.

Not me.

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[The Scobleizer Weblog]

I just made a change to some code I wrote a while back that generates a text file with strong encryption/decryption keys for use in a machine.config or web.config.

The change was minor, but when I first used it I didn't intend to tell anyone about it, but nor did I have a blog. Basically, all I did was add a little code to the MSDN example that walks you thru the process of defining strong <machineKey/> elements for inter-host forms authentication (among other things).

It's a command-line exe that takes 3 arguments:

1. number of bytes to make the decryption key
2. number of bytes to make the validation key
3. output file name.

The example given by MSDN is great, and there aren't any code changes as far as the logic for creating the keys go. I wanted to be able to copy/paste the results tho, so I added some pretty trivial filestream code to it. If one of you two is interested, ping me. Oh yeah, the code is in C#.

I just had to do a test for a RegExValidator.

Wow! Interesting, no? Keep reading.

A while back, I had to do a few tests to check if certain regEx's would work in a regex validator. Since said validator uses JavaScript RegExp's, I couldn't test for validation on Steve Smith's RegexLib.com. Great resource there, Steve - but I'm a web developer primarily. So I rolled my own.

You can find it on my little aspalliance web space here. I've used it quite a few times, but it's been a private deal - so there's no UI, no design went into it, it's simply a utility that works much like the tester on RegexLib; I simply made it work with a regexValidator so it requires one more postback. If any of my 2 readers enjoys this or finds it useful, please let me know. As always, feedback is appreciated - I'm still learning, here folks.

HAND.

Welcome to my pal Devin Rader who has just started a blog on dotnetweblogs.

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[Julia Lerman Blog]

Subscribed.

[Listening to: Two Tabs Of Mescaline - Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute  (06:12)] 

The Bridge pattern. All I have to say is..."huh?". Is it me or does this pattern seem like more of an abstract idea than the others I've seen so far? I think I'm going to have to read this chapter again. I don't mind, I'll come back to it.

So why am I reading DPE? Well, it occurs to me that a lot of developers I respect and think of as well-refined in their skills use these terms to not only communicate but also think about development in a higher order. I want that. I'm hungry. I want to collaborate with developers who are much better versed than I am and not just think, "huh?". I've got a lot of work to do.:)