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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! 

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • What's his platform? What is he running on...?

    #region Disclamer
    /*
    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…
    */
    #endregion

  • 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.