First, I will give an overview of what the test was like and then I’ll give you my review of it. The test was given to me to try and gauge my skills as a .NET Web Developer. The test was 35 questions and it took around 30 minutes to complete. It was the c# [...]
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Thank you Microsoft for recent .NET Support!
February 9th, 2007
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Well I just wanted to give a formal thank-you to Microsoft for it’s recent support of extending the tools for Microsoft Web Developers. I’ve been pretty tough on Microsoft over the last year on it’s issues with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and it’s massive delay on releasing SP1. As most of you know, ASP.NET AJAX [...]
Internet Explorer 7.0 is Officially Released
October 19th, 2006
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Microsoft announced the release of Internet Explorer 7.0 today. Download Link Release Notes Link Internet Explorer 7.0 Checklists
ConnectionTimeout vs. CommandTimeout
September 26th, 2006
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I was asked the question today why a sql query was timing out. A co-worker explained that he changed the ConnectionTimeout setting and it was still timing out. I thought i’d post about the differences between CommandTimeout and ConnectionTimeout. ConnectionTimeout is the one specified in your connection string and it is the time it takes [...]
DotNetNuke has gone Corporate
September 22nd, 2006
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First let me say that I have worked on DotNetNuke for the last five years. It is the best open source product i’ve ever seen. The project has wonderful developers and is always innovating. Today they announced the formation of DotNetNuke Corporation. This is exciting for me to see since I have been involved in [...]
Javascript Library Reviews
September 11th, 2006
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Well the hype of Web2.0 has certainly revitalized Javascript in the web development community. Just when you think it’s dead… I look forward to researching each of these libraries more thoroughly and then incorporate the best suited one into Kinetic CRM. Here is the summary of the 4 main libraries as described by Sitepoint. [...]
Microsoft Releases Vista RC1 to the public
September 7th, 2006
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Microsoft has released Vista RC1 to the public. I plan on installing it this weekend. http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc1/en/download.htm Signatures of the ISO files: 32-Bit MD5 hash: 22486e815a38feffd9667317dfeec55a SHA1 hash: e00b4ebbc81fb420cf047973b95a9cfb7cdf51b7 http://download.windowsvista.com/dl/preview/rc1/en/x86/iso/vista_5600.16384.0608292230_x86fre_client-lr1cfre_en_dvd.iso 64-Bit MD5 hash: f3a385aae6e4dea9226e31d9f1148b56 SHA1 hash: 8e4de7a72c828a3543ff1663243eb0836da07eea http://download.windowsvista.com/dl/preview/rc1/en/x64/iso/vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x64fre_client-lr1cxfre_en_dvd.iso download the .isos directly only with proper http-referer headers. so click the two html links ontop and start [...]
Create a wordpress theme
September 6th, 2006
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Since I have just converted my blogg to WordPress, I thought I would post a link on how to build a WordPress theme. I plan on converting a couple of simple websites that I have to WordPress using this guide.
ASP.NET Issue Tracker Released
September 5th, 2006
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ASP.NET Issue Tracker Released Microsoft has released the final version of the ASP.NET Issue Tracker Starter Kit. The Issue Tracker Starter Kit is a free application produced by Microsoft which illustrates best-practices when building ASP.NET applications. Both VB.NET and C# source code is available for download.
Visual Studio – Difference between ‘Build’ and ‘Rebuild’
September 5th, 2006
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I have been asked this question many times so I thought I could blog about it. It is a bit confusing until you know the differences. Visual Studio .Net provides us with two options for compiling and creating builds for our application. They are Build Solution and Rebuild Solution options which can be accessed from [...]
