Saturday, 29 January 2005 18:14 by
nickpNikhil was recently talking about this support for the upcoming release within ASP.NET 2.0. If you wanted to do this previously it required some use of JavaScript or iframes. This is definitely going to be a nice bit of functionality I will want to take advantage of.
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Saturday, 29 January 2005 12:55 by
nickpWe just found out yesterday that Megan passed her LPN boards test. Congratulations babe! I have to admit, it makes me wonder why they make them wait. The test is done on the computer and you have two options, wait four weeks from your test date to receive confirmation in the mail or pay 8 bucks and find out two days after the test. Once you've already paid 300 dollars to take a test, what's 8 bucks? My question, why do you have to wait two days, shouldn't the results be known as soon as the test is complete?
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Friday, 28 January 2005 13:43 by
nickpI just came across a new article on MSDN detailing the release of a tool called Fiddler. Fiddler sits as a proxy between WinINET and your requests to web servers; allowing it to capture all HTTP traffic. Fiddler is then able to track results and provide performance metrics based on the HTTP traffic being processed. Something I think makes this product even more valuable is the support for debugging. Fiddler supports a type of breakpoint, which allows you pause HTTP traffic, and edit values. If you don’t have an IDE readily available this is the next best thing since sliced bread for debugging in the web environment. Fiddler is also extensible allowing you to write your own rules or inspectors; this is definitely a tool I’m adding to my list.
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Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:13 by
nickpOk, so this is obviously not a new topic and you are probably accustomed to seeing a comparison between C# and it's more common competitor, VB.NET. Eric Gunnerson gave a really nice, detailed list of reasons as to why C# is better than C++ followed by only 4 pluses to the usage of C++. The choice of C# seems rather clear when compared to a language that isn't managed, however when comparing multiple managed languages it becomes much more vague.
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Sunday, 23 January 2005 12:24 by
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I use RSS Bandit as my RSS aggregator, it comes with a host of nice options, one of which allow you to validate a specific RSS feed to confirm it is well formed. This morning I decided to check to see that my feed, which is being generated from .Text is properly formed. It wasn't. When I went to Feed Validator, it came back with an error stating the <managingEditor> element needed to include an email address. I quickly pulled up the .Text source code to see what was going on. I was able to find in the BaseRssWriter.cs file, Scott was formatting the <managingEditor> section with only the name of the editor. After changing the BuildChannel call to pass the email address instead of the name, my feed is now valid.
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Sunday, 23 January 2005 01:01 by
nickpBrad Abrams wrote a post back in late 2003 discussing three types of developers. These three types of developers (i.e., Systematic, Pragmatic and Opportunistic) can map closely to the languages of C++, C# and VB, respectively. These three types were defined by Steven Clarke who works on API usability at Microsoft. I think a major flaw with this mapping is that developers can become pigeonholed specifically by the programming language they use. I don't feel that I fit into one specific category here; it's more of a melting pot for me. So I wonder, where do you fit in the grand scheme of things?
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Saturday, 22 January 2005 12:48 by
nickpWell, I woke up this morning and got to work, a short time later I've got an effective CAPTCHA control added to decrease the influx of spam posts I've been receiving. Let me know what you think.
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Saturday, 22 January 2005 03:08 by
nickpI added searching to my site tonight, hopefully over the weekend I also plan on adding a CAPTCHA control to lower the amount of spam comments I receive. The search is performed via MSN Search, which can provide an RSS feed as output for your search results.
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Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:02 by
nickpMike Stall has a really nice write up that walks you through using Windbg to find out about unmanaged exceptions. Nice stuff Mike.
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Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:13 by
nickpWell, last night Javier and I drove out to Omaha for dinner with Jeff Brand from Microsoft and a bunch of other Omaha developers; Joe Olsen and Phil Wolfe to name a few. It appears that Javier already beat me to the post so I won't ramble on any further but I just wanted to say thanks again, what a great night.
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