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SpamSoap
Scott Hanselman blogs about SpamSoap, a server side Spam filter solution that doesn’t need to be installed on your email host. You can do this by routing your email (by changing your MX record) to the SpamSoap Servers, and they filter the spam for you. They redirect the good stuff to the original email account, and the suspected spam to a spam email account. Sounds like a great solution. I use Webhosting4Life and since they don’t offer spam filtering, this solution would solve that problem. The only issue I have is the price. At $25/month SpamSoap is more expensive than my hosting provider.
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Adobe Announces New Creative Suite
Adobe finally announced the release of the new Adobe Creative Suite. Like Microsoft’s Office suite, but for graphics design, it combines the previously separate products of Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and others into 2 suite levels, Standard and Professional. Hit the Adobe site to find out more. As someone who occasionally works with the folks at Adobe, all I can say right now is that you should be prepared to be impressed. As soon as I get word that I could talk about specific features I will definitely let everyone know some of the cool things I did with Illustrator.
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GDN Code Samples Updated
My 2 most recent GotDotNet samples, Extending Enums and Encrypted ConnectionStrings, have finally been updated. Thanks to some help and feedback from Steve Maine I got down to adding caching support to both of these samples. When it was all said and done, the caching was easy to implement. For some reason I had it stuck in my head that I was going to use System.Web’s caching, and I didn’t want to do that because I didn’t want to rely on running within ASP.Net (although I think you can use it outside of ASP.Net, but I haven’t check into it). Since the only classes that will need to access the cached info are the classes that create the objects, I really only needed to create a private, static hashtable within the ConnectionString class and the DalParameter class, and cache either the ConnectionStringDictionary object or the AttributeSettings object. It works like a charm and only needed minor code adjustments. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it when I first wrote it. I think it was partially because I was over complicating the caching. Most of the times, simpler is better.
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Instant Messaging Contact Info
From the feedback it looks like the proposed PDC Bloggers Party is a go, but it will take some coordination effort on my part. To help make myself a little more accessible I’ll pull a Don Smith and release my IM id to the general public. I only use MSN IM, and the id is don_xml plus the obligatory @hotmail.com at the end (hopefully that little redirection confused the spam bots out there).
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PDC Blogger Party
Geez, has it been a week since I posted something? I guess I’ve been busy.
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Fun With Attribute Based Programming - The Presentation
If you happen to be in the NJ Area on October 2nd, you may want to stop by the NJMSDEV meeting and check out my presentation “Fun with Attribute Based Programming – Extending Enums”. It is based on my article and GotDotNet sample of the same name, and would be a great time to ask any questions that you may have on this topic.
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re: Why Do You Code?
Rory doesn’t shy away from asking the hard questions, and this time it is a real brain twister – “Why do you code?”
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Rockin’ the Whilshire Grand
For those of you that care, I’ll be at staying at the Whilshire Grand for the PDC, and the place will be rockin’.
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3rd Annual XML for Financial Services Conference
The 3rd annual XML for Financial Services conference is scheduled for Jan. 26-28, 2004, at the Flathotel in New York City. It will concentrate on maximizing interoperability, efficiency and cost savings thru integrated XML-based web services. All the presentations have not been announced yet, but I will be giving the following Post-Conference Workshop:
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re: MSDN Universal Subscribers PDC Discount?
Follow up to my previous post.
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Brad McCabe of Infragistics
Last Thursday, at the joint NJMSDEV & N3UG meeting, I had the unexpected pleasure of attending Brad McCabe’s presentation “Developing Rich Client Features with Thin Client Delivery”. I say unexpected pleasure, even though I always attend the meetings and knew Brad was presenting. What I didn’t expect was how talented this cat is. Besides being a natural presenter, he really knows his stuff. I’ve really got to get this guy to blog. The articles I’ve read by him do not adequately reflect his knowledge. In Brad, Infragistics may have a hidden gem, but once companies like DevelopMentor and Microsoft find out about him, they are going to have a hard time keeping him in the fold. Definitely someone to keep an eye on.
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MSDN Universal Subscribers PDC Discount?
I just got an email from a friend of mine that contained an RSVP code for a $600 discount off the price of the PDC if you are a MSDN Universal Subscriber. It's really a $300 discount, since it also included the $300 discount for early registeration. I never received this email, and I wish I did before I signed up for the PDC. Is this thing legit, and if so, is there anyway I can get my $300 discount for being a MSDN Universal Subscriber, after the fact?
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PDC Symposia
Just noticed this new Special Events and Offers page over on the PDC site, and the Architecture Symposium really caught my eye. Here’s a blurb from the page:
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IAEA.ORG Referrals?
I’ve been checking out the new .Text referrer list for my posts, and noticed that a lot of them have the International Atomic Energy Agency website (www.iaea.org) listed as a referrer. Since their site has nothing to do with .Net, and has no links to any .Net blog on it, I doubt that this is legit. All of the posts that have this site listed in the referral section have a referral date of 8/28/2003. Sounds like it is either test data from ScottW (doubtful) or some hacker is spoofing their url in their http headers. Has any of the other ASP.Net webloggers noticed the same thing?
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You Might Have Raised a Geek Family If…
In the sprit of Jeff Foxworth’s “You might be a redneck if …” jokes –
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Combined NJMSDEV & N3UG Meeting Tonight
For the first time ever, the New Jersey Microsoft Developer’s Group and the North New Jersey .Net User Group are holding a joint meeting. It will start at 5:30PM and will be held at Microsoft’s Berkeley Heights location.
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System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName
If you need to create a temporary file, and don’t want to have to create your own name algorithm, System.IO’s Path.GetTemplFileName static method is the way to go. Just make sure that you delete it after you are done with it (one of my pet peeves).