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Meeting Rory
Yesterday at an MSDN event in Louisville I met the famous new Microsoft employee Rory Blyth. I have read his blog for quite some time but was absolutely blown away by the level of fame he has attained. I took number and stood in line for like 35 minutes in a large crowd to talk to him, had to endure security checks to even get in the door and then wait even longer without any assuredness that I would even get to shake his hand. He had a large entourage of men who followed him around talking into their shirt cufflinks, reporters taking pictures all the time, a personal butler and he had even flown his personal hair stylist in from Washington to give him a touch up…Wait a minute, scratch that; that was when I met John Kerry!
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Wicked ASP.NET: Peter Blum’s Professional Validation and More
I have been a self employed developer for a little over 2 years and in that time have taught myself a number of rules. My Component rule is pretty common and goes as follows.
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Thank you Gipper.
This shining city on a hill will never forget you.
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Buying in...generics
So here I am, 3:27 am coding away when my incessant ctrl+c & ctrl+v cause the vacuum enclosed finely coiled tungsten in my head to get red hot; my mouth drops open as I realize how wicked cool generics are and how they will save me far more time than I had been thinking!
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BREAKING NEWS: ScottGU has been found
Early today ASP.NET GUru Scott Guthrie responded to a news story about his disapperance, letting this writer know that he has very busy the last few months. We are all happy to hear he is OK and look forward to his syndicated return to the blogosphere...the original news story can be found below.
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Gu b gone, The community mourns
disAssociated Press - Friday May 21, 2004
With over 150 days since he has entered anything into his blog, industry watchers and tech luminaries have resigned to face the fact that Scott Guthrie has disappeared permanently. -
ASP.NET: Application level data caching with callbacks
In my current application, the vast majority of the web site is broken into content ‘parts’ that can all be edited through a built in content manager. Pages consist of one or multiple parts which are elements of HTML persisted to the SQL database. In order to improve performance I wanted to look at some techniques for caching these content elements and coupled with my desire to learn new things I decided to use the Cache class directly instead of the more common methods of Output Caching.
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ALERT: ASP.NET Hack Attempt
I wanted to toss this out there in case there is some new or as of yet unpacthed vulnerability. This morning I had an unusual string of errors whereas someone began trying to supplant the VIEWSTATE into the URL and in turn causing an error.
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Free Stuff or Good Marketing?
Gavin is giving away a free copy of his nTierGen product to weblogs.asp.net bloggers, either he is being really nice or figured that it would be good marketing and really raise his rank on google if we all blogged to thank him!
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ASP.NET TidbiTIP #3
HOWTO: Cause a page to escape any frames it may be embedded within
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ASP.NET TidbiTIP #2
HOWTO: Use server side code to set focus onto a control on the client side...
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ASP.NET TidbiTIP #1
HOWTO: Push a javascript alert using server side code
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Microsoft to create SVP award
With all this talk about MVPs lately, I wanted to add my comedic 2 cents
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Corporate Welfare
If you can't compete on the basis of good products, you can always sue!
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What should M$ do with all that cash?
Now that it appears the anti-trust problems are more bark than bite (600+mil from EU), it is time to start thinking about how to spend that enormous cash hoarde that Redmond has been saving up. Last I heard it was in the neighborhood of 50 billion. Besides buying a few hundred small countries, someone up there has got to figure out what to do with all that money! I thought I would float a few proposals to get the ball rolling.
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Socialists and the anti-Microsoft crowd.
The EU this week decided that Microsoft should have to pay big time for living up to their motto of making peoples lives better.
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Whidbey/Yukon Delays
I want to add my voice to the rising level of noise, this delay is frustrating.
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MSPress books and why they are so big...
I am convinced that most MSPress books are 700+ pages because of people like Chris. I am starting to think he gets paid by the word or something.
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RULE: When announcing your arrival...
BLOGGERS LAW: The Introduction clause:
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What's his platform? What is he running on...?
#region Disclamer
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This is not a political post in any way. I have been researching some site load issues lately and found it interesting to look this data up considering the traffic these sites are surely seeing at this point in time…
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ILMerge, ISVs and composite assemblies…
Earlier I made a post about the prefix given to server controls and Robert commented that he did not like the fact that you could not specify the same prefix for controls hosted in different assemblies.
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Server Controls - avoiding cc*:somecontrol
I have noticed a number of server controls people have put together lately, some commercial but most free on places like Code Project that always render out with the generic tag prefix. It occured to me that the control of this is not readily obvious so maybe I should be kind and point out that you can change this. Lets suppose I was a commercial control vendor named 'Some Company' and wanted to have the prefix 'soc' for my server controls. I would use something called the TagPrefixAttribute to force this behavior. By placing this code in my AssemblyInfo.cs file I get the desired affect.
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SQL Query Analyzer command line switches
Never really cared until I realized I was repeating the same old task over and over, and I love to automate that type of situation.