Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

Someday....

HOLY COW! PDCBloggers.net just launched a slew of new features to the site. They have a new user control to put on your site, as well as a brand new design, and a whole bunch of PDC related materials. Go check it out! Great job Drew & Gang!!

OK, so GenX.NET has been slower to launch than I wanted it to be. WAY slower. Part of the reason was because we've been building the the new “Store” and “MyAccount” sections of the website. Since the hostages have not been freed yet, I've had to start over on a lot of my DB work. But, since the new system runs completely on top of XHEO's yet-unreleased application suite, I haven't had to do a whole lot of DB work thus far. The biggest problem though, has been all in my mind.

Look everyone. Posts by Rob Howard and Scott Guthrie... in the same week!!! And look, ScottGu posted 3 times. Woah.

I get asked all the time, “Wouldn't you love working for Microsoft?” My answer is always “Hello no, I'd rather work with them. That would be much cooler.” Well that's pretty much what I do now, although on a largely unofficial basis. I did, however, come across one of the reasons that Microsoft is my favorite company. I thought I'd share it with you.

Here's how to do it:

Scott Hansleman talks about page instantiation while designing ASPX pages in the IDE [via Daniel Fisher]. Good stuff.

So, after reading “Writing Secure Code, Second Edition”, I've totally changed the way I program. Here is a prime example, taken from the book: