July 2003 Entries
This is
an excellent article - I think many of us (certainly I have) have on occasion felt
like the article describes.
Read on Robert McLaws blog
that some Whidbey information (next version of Visual Studio and .NET) has been made
public . I can't wait for this to come out - it really is a massive improvement
- I also can't wait to be able to talk about it and use it on real sites :-)
This is also pretty nice
:-P
This is a wonderful project, providing a
Rich Text Editor for the ASP.NET community. If you can afford to contribute to this
project, please do (I plan to very soon :-P). Essentially it provides an embedded
HTML editor which you can use in any ASP.NET (oh, and ASP 3.0) project. Even if you
don't plan to use it, have a look at the sourcecode - as an example of how to create
a ServerControl its' pretty cool...
Cool new Blog - http://xplsv.com/blogs/devdiary/ by
David Notario
Here's an article on 4Guysfromrolla about
the DAAB (don't
know what that is, click on the link!
This is a really useful resource http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/metatags.html .
On cachig and Meta tags in general.
Just noticed over at .NET Weblogs, Paschal links
to Jim Byrne with a
collection of articles on web design and accessibility.
Noticed this on .NET weblogs, a post about
a bug in the DAAB
V2
I've recently been following a thread on accessibility in ASP.NET - now this is a pretty important subject for any web developer. It is illegal not to make your site accessible and can lead to a hefty fine!
At the moment, ASP.NET pretty much sucks for accessibility - which means ASP.NET pretty much sucks for doing much work for the government / large companies who care (i.e., have to care) about accessibility (no, plain text versions don't qualify - you're still technically discriminating against the user who can't use all the flashy features).
If anyone has any links to publicly available...
I'm working...hmm...thought I'd mention a very odd bug I came across yesterday at
work - which had me puzzled for about a day and a half...
I had written an application (the Portal I've mentioned before - The
Education Community), which uses the Data
Access Application Block to provide the DAL - which I highly recommend. Anyway,
...
Very useful...http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/
ASP.NET has a problem with file downloads...basically if you use Response.WriteFile(fileName),
the entire file is buffered in memory before its' downloaded - this is NOT good for
scalability. To get round that proble, here's some code which could be used for file
download - it looks the file download, only downloading chunks at a time. Also checks
that the client is connected before sending the next chunk...
private void DownloadFile(Guid itemId)
{
...
I'm currently generating an update procedure for an installed site - this involves
generating a change script for the DB to make the deployed one the same as the new,
modified one (yes, I know you should create change scripts as you go along...well
I was on holiday for 2 weeks and the other developer on the project didn't). Anyway,
if you have to do this on a reasonably large SQL Server 2000 Db, I can't recommend AdeptSQL
Diff highly enough, I've tried 4 (count them, FOUR!)...
Well, its' back in its' box, waiting to get sent back. The phone just plain sucks
- OK, the have this swish new high-speed network - does it support internet access...umm...nope.
The battery literally lasts like 4 hours, the UI is just plain the worst I have ever
seen on anything anwhere. It looks like a bargain (£35 for 750 minutes of cross-network
calls!),...
Hmm...got a new swish 3G mobile phone, the NEC
e606, got a pretty good deal - works out cheaper than my old phone with a GPRS
package - but with 10 times tha bandwidth and no restrictions on VPN ports which my
old orange phone had...Have to say though, that the UI is the most unfriendly one
I've ever used - for instance, the...
As I've written about a hundred times now. I'm currently rebuilding this site - don't stop reading, I really am this time!
So, I'm in the process of defining an architecture - rebuilding the site is more about my playing with some new technologies rather than actually making a site thats' for anything. The architecture I choose will have many of the features I'd expect to see in ASP.NET 2.0 - with a view to converting once I get the bits.
The way it is currently going is to use a version of MasterPages , maybe taking a few pointers from Paul Wilsons...
As we all know, C# lacks an IsNumeric method, this
article at AspAlliance looks at various methods of doing this and benchmarks them
to find the quickest...
This discussion on Slashdot has
finally made my mind up. I have been a reader of Slashdot for a number of years,
I believe I started reading it in the first month it existed. I'm even one of the
smallish number of people who subscribes. The eternal Microsoft bashing whey now indulge
in is getting very boring - when is the last time anyone wrote a story not actively
criticising Microsoft on that site. I have in the past worked with Solaris and have
...
There really are some! Found at Joel
On Software...
I especiallt love this one...
"Computers are high-speed idiots, programmed by low-speed idiots"
Just noticed over at Devhawk that
V2 of the DataAccessApplicationBlock has been released...
Just When You Thought It Was Safe...
The prescriptive guidance is coming fast...
I've written about these before, but if you are planning to develop any sort of ASP.NET
/ other .NET based app, you can save yourself a whole heap of time an aggrovation
by having a look at the .NET application blocks, for instance the Data
Access Application Block provides a very useful (and quick...and free source)
satatring point for any DAL.
...
Well, had a very restful holiday...back to work now though. In typical Scottish
fashion (well Edinburgh), it's raining outside. So, plans for the next few days include
learning more about mobile controls...extending my winforms knowledge and generally
working on some projects which interest me.
Unfortunately it also looks like I'm going to have to rebuild my...
I'm currently on holiday - hence no new entries. Be back in a few days - lots of cool
stuff on Pocket PC programming with the Compact Framework coming up :-)