Jeff Makes Software
The software musings of Jeff Putz
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How do you get a true singleton in an ASP.NET app?
Something that has troubled me for awhile is that I can't quite figure out how to create a true singleton in an ASP.NET application. In other words, an object that lives in just once place, period. I thought that you could do this via an HttpModule, but when you debug you'll find that there is in fact more than one instance of the module.
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Apple is not the new Microsoft
I noticed the PC World editorial proclaiming that Apple was the new Microsoft (via this blog), and I swear the mainstream press will print anything these days.
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Revisiting content management: Just build what you need!
Back in 2001 when I got laid-off from my job and started learning what this new .Net thing was all about, my first attempt at building something was a CMS that could do "everything." When I look back at it, well, it pretty much did do everything. You could drop in a UserControl that did whatever you need. It was like Sharepoint before Sharepoint.
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Improved power management for iPhone?
Ever since the 1.0.2 update for the iPhone, described only as "bug fixes," I'm getting crazy better battery life from it. I was comfortably charging it every two to three days before, but now even after two days and a fair amount of iPod use, it's lasting much longer. I wonder if they tweaked the power management?
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Off-shoring and visa worker nonsense
I saw a TV spot today from this organization claiming a big conspiracy against American workers by evil corporate America to off-shore jobs or importation of foreigners for those jobs. What a load of crap. (Watch the sad little spot on their site... How are they gonna make that house payment? Maybe by selling that $40,000 car!)
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Facebook app for iPhone... wow!
Leave it to the cats at Facebook to deliver a very nice iPhone experience. Given the site's media-centric approach of photos and other nonsense, it's a great fit to the iPhone, which is all about photos and other nonsense!
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Icky PHP from Facebook
While I certainly realize that ugly code can be written in any language on any platform, the found PHP code from Facebook is exceptionally gross. I can't even imagine looking at code and having to face that.
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Web is hanging out where the puck has been
I was listening to This Week In Tech this morning, as they were talking about various services and Web sites they use. It occurred to me that, while many of these sites are very fascinating, most are me-too at best, or worthless at worst.
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Facebook .NET
One of the smartest guys in the ASP.NET world, Nikhil Kothari, just wrote a short piece and is sharing code for a Facebook app framework. Sweet. Check it out here:
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Two weeks with iPhone, and the good constraints of Web apps
I've had my "Jesus phone" as some have called it for about two weeks, and so far I'm pretty impressed. I just put it in the charger after more than two days, with about two days stand by, eight hours of "use" (not sure, but I think that's iPod use, Internet, everything but phone calls), an hour and a half of talk time, and about 12 MB down. That got me to the 20% left warning. Frankly, that's better than I expected.