Performance and Editor fixes for VS2008…
In regard to my previous post, Visual Studio 2008 Is Pretty Damn Slow, a couple engineers from Microsoft have contacted me to let me know that a hotfix has been made public which should address the...
View ArticleRegarding Base-64: Trying to solve an ASP.NET issue…
Update: Thanks to WordPress.com automagically linking related posts to each other, I think I may have found a potential solution to this issue here: Invalid character in a Base-64 string (ASP.NET) The...
View ArticleMulti-Targeting VS2005 and VS2008 Web Application Projects, a Gotcha!
Great post on how to share a solution between VS2008 and VS2005, from stevenharman.net/blog: One of the things I’m most excited about with Visual Studio 2008 is it’s ability to target various versions...
View ArticleSuper Nintendo Emulator SE
Just found out about this today – I was always curious as to how they developed games for the Super Nintendo… Super Nintendo Emulator SE From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Super Nintendo...
View ArticleMaking XAMPP (Apache) work with IIS on Windows XP/Vista
Update: This application will help you track down which applications are using which ports on Windows – very helpful for debugging if the steps below don’t solve your problem, or if IIS is not the only...
View ArticleBlogFodder: List Of Free / Open Source ASP.NET Web Applications
I started looking for free/open-source ASP.NET applications to run on my development instance of IIS (since IIS is already running on my machine), and stumbled upon this list today: As a big ASP.NET...
View ArticleASP.NET: Starter Kits and Community Projects
In relation to the last post, here are some starter kits and projects officially listed at Microsoft’s own ASP.NET site (http://www.asp.net/community/projects/) Starter Kits DotNetNuke® Web...
View Article#region: Awesome or Horrible?
While coding in Java recently, I decided to do a little research to see if Java supported the #region directive (or something similar) and found a ton of articles knocking its usage as poor programming...
View ArticleYouTube – Samsung SSD Awesomeness
2GB/s. Dizamn. YouTube – Samsung SSD Awesomeness. Posted in Video Tagged: 2gb/s, asp.net, awesome, awesomeness, Programming, raid, samsung, Software Development, ssd, striped, viral marketing, webdev,...
View Article11 Tools Every ASP.NET Programmer Should Install
I found a great list of “6 Free Tools that every Windows Programmer should Install” via a contact of mine on Twitter, which made me want to create my own list, similar to the tools listed in the link...
View ArticlejQuery fadeIn/fadeOut IE cleartype glitch
Thanks to Benjamin Michael Novakovic for this fix! jQuery fadeIn/fadeOut IE cleartype glitch While using the jQuery javascript library today at work, I noticed a glitch under IE7. When fading a html...
View ArticleDev Tip: Preserve whitespace in HTML without using (nbsp)
If you want to preserve whitespace within an HTML element (div/span) without using non-breaking spaces (and therefore breaking word-wrap), add the following property to the CSS style(s) for that...
View ArticleKB971092 won’t install (Visual Studio 2008 Security Fix)
From Microsoft Connect: (https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=478117) Until Microsoft come up with an official solution there is a working workaround for...
View ArticleQuick Update: CSS/JS Auto-Minification in ASP.NET
I’ve been trying for weeks to write up a good technical article about a recent CSS/JavaScript minification handler for ASP.NET (ASHX/HttpHandler) that I whipped up, but our current release has been so...
View ArticleEditra: Setup as a Python IDE
I can’t believe that I had overlooked this application at first, but I’m glad that I finally started using it. So far, this is the best free Python IDE that I’ve found, and it’s a fantastic general...
View Article