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UrlRewriting, .NET 2.0 SP1 and Search Engines
Having been caught out by this issue once again this weekend, I thought I'd better blog about it so I don't scratch my head searching around again for a third time! If you've been getting some wierd "Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory...
Posted 26 May 2008 06:05 PM by James Crowley | with no comments
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Gotcha: "The specified metadata path is not valid." with ADO.NET Entities on Vista x64
For those of you foolhardy enough to be running Vista x64 (myself included!), VS 2008, and the latest build of the ADO.NET Entities framework... you may well hit the following error message: The specified metadata path is not valid. A valid path must...
Posted 26 January 2008 04:09 PM by James Crowley | 7 comment(s)
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Future of Web Apps in London - (plus 20% discount!)
Future of Web Apps have a run a great set of events in both the US and the UK - and there's one coming up in London on Oct 3-5. Just to give you a taster, there are speakers from Digg Flickr Facebook WordPress FeedBurner Yahoo Adobe Microsoft Not bad...
Posted 25 September 2007 07:52 PM by James Crowley | with no comments
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Gotcha: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR returns multiple IP addresses
I hit a small gotcha this evening. A visitor to Developer Fusion reported that they couldn't gain access to the site at all, because our IP address detection logic was failing. We were checking the "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR" header for an IP address, before...
Posted 19 June 2007 10:00 PM by James Crowley | 6 comment(s)
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Dynamically Generating PDFs in .NET
It's perfectly possible to generate a PDF from scratch, using a library such as iTextSharp , a port of a free Java PDF library. However, it can be hard work defining all the code you need to generate the layout you're after, and impossible for...
Posted 14 March 2007 02:12 PM by James Crowley | 3 comment(s)
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Checklist
Search engine optimisation is pretty much part and parcel of creating websites these days. Getting the basics right don't require a large amount of work, but can make all the difference. Many of these also improve the general usability and accessibility...
Posted 10 February 2007 01:51 PM by James Crowley | 7 comment(s)
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