I was reading an article earlier by Jim Rapoza of eWeek . In the eWeek labs, eWeek setup "stack packs". Each pack had their own server OS, web server, database, scripting/development language, and test portal. The Windows JBoss had Server 2k3, Apache, MySQL, JSP, and JBoss Portal. The Windows...

I was reading an article earlier by Jim Rapoza of eWeek . In the eWeek labs, eWeek setup "stack packs". Each pack had their own server OS, web server, database, scripting/development language, and test portal. The Windows JBoss had Server 2k3, Apache, MySQL, JSP, and JBoss Portal. The Windows...

Google released Google Spreadsheets on June 5th . One of the features of Google spreadsheets is to export and import Excel (xls) files. Google has accomplished this rather easily by using the Java Open API for Excel . After messing with it in my test account, its a pretty cool utility for uploading and...

Last night I was in Malvern to present on Membership and Personalization in ASP.NET 2.0. It was amazing to see that a room full of ASP.NET developers had very little experience with this. Many of the presentations at conferences and user groups are about technology that can be used in the future rather...

I just enabled my RSS feeds listed on DotNetSlackers to auto-post entries from any of my 3 blogs to Community Credit . If you are not familiar with either, DotNetSlackers is a tool that ASP.NET developers can subscribe to (for free) to receive all of the latest news in the ASP.NET community in an email...

I needed a quick and easy way to consume RSS. Scott Guthrie let me know about a cool tookit that Dmitry from his team setup. The toolkit can be downloaded from Dmitry's blog or by visiting the Sandbox site on ASP.NET . I downloaded the toolkit and began using it. However, the RSS feed I was using was...

I just read somewhere that one of the features that FireFox 2.0 will include is an extension blacklist. The purpose is to help prevent attacks. Really, I see this as being a potential problem. That would seem to allow web compatibility issues to continue. If companies block JavaScript files in an attempt...

One of the sites I visit frequently to convert images from GIF to a Base64 string is http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp . It's a quick and easy way to do the conversion. It would be pretty nice if VS.net eventually had a conversion tool built in.

I just read a pretty good article on adding auto-suggest functionality to a website. The article can be found at http://www.travelope.com/DeveloperCorner/article/ . I have implemented a 3rd party product called EasySearchASP.net , which contains similar functionality, on my website . For those of you...

I've finally posted some pictures from the NJ Code Camp this weekend in Edison/Iselin, NJ. You can check them out by visiting http://www.jasongaylord.com/photos/Photos.aspx?AlbumID=104 . Also, the .NET Rocks show was posted to the website. You can check that out by visiting http://www.dotnetrocks.com...