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Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers
Today I got wind of a new book that makes me laugh, "Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers: Riding the IT Crest" by Ed Burns. This book has not been published yet but based on the clues I would guess it focuses on Java programmers. I thought "rock star programmers" only used Ruby On Rails.
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Noteworthy Details
Today I learned several things that were "noteworthy" so I might as well share my knowledge. Whenever I learn something new in the course of my work I add it to my massive collection of notes.
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Blog Backups
I have managed to restore my WordPress blog by taking advantage of search engine caches. This is a good opportunity to review the lessons learned during an unexpected hosting company snafu.
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Membership, Profile & Role Management Frustration
I've been migrating a classic ASP web application to ASP.NET 2.0. I'm converting the existing user management system to the ASP.NET 2.0 profile, roles, and membership API because it is the new standard. However, I have been frustrated by the lack of a back end user management system. Microsoft provided the Web Site Administration Tool which can be invoked in Visual Studio during development but you can't use that as part of your web application management back end. There really should have been a pre-built user management tool to include in your project.
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My blog is toast
Last night I discovered that my cheap hosting company had accidentally downgraded my hosting package. I suddenly found lots of advertising on my web site. The CGI and FrontPage extensions support were turned off and the MySQL database was gone. This effectively deleted my WordPress blog which has not been backed up since October. They had better restore the MySQL database so I can get my blog back!