For the past week I’ve had a nasty sinus infection I couldn’t shake, so today I finally got the doctor to give me some antibiotics. Hopefully they will bring me back to life soon. Anyway, since lack of energy kept me from posting anything interesting lately, I decided to do something easy. :) Today I …
Another Patent Gone Bad
Wired reports Forgent Sues Over JPEG Patent. According to the article, Forgent acquired a 17-year-old patent when it purchased Compression Labs in 1997 that Forgent believes can be applied to JPEG. Also according to the article, Forgent has generated about $90 million in fees on the patent from 30 licensees in Europe, Asia and the …
Why runat=”server” for ASP.NET? Part 2
In response to my post Why runat="server" for ASP.NET?, Talbott Crowell tried of Microsoft National Services tried to comment but got an error from dasBlog. I’ve decided to post his emailed comments here: I understand your point, but the importance of [runat="server"] is more for consistancy and extensibility. If the developer has to mark some …
A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected…
In response to my post Why runat="server" for ASP.NET?, Talbott Crowell of Microsoft National Services tried to post the following comment: I understand your point, but the importance of [runat="server"] is more for consistancy and extensibility. If the developer has to mark some tags some ways (ie an [<asp:] prefix) and in other cases using …
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About the “Most Useful Add-in/Macro for Visual Studio .Net” Contest
Roy Osherove at ISerializable is holding a contest for the "Most Useful Add-in/Macro for Visual Studio .Net" Contest." Submissions accepted through May 31st, and there are tons of cool prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place plus a Bonus finisher. One of the best(!) prizes is an XDN Professional Membership from Xtras.Net. :-) Be sure …
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What major advantages does C# have over Java?
Matt Davey just posted about a presentation to management types where they asked the question (among others) “What major advantage does the C# language have over and above the Java language?“ My first thought was “attributes“ which allow developers to tag code with metadata that can be programmed against but I was sure there was …
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Great People and Old Friends at VS Connections
I just got back from the Visual Studio Connections conference in Orlando, Florida for a few days. I went down for a few meetings, and had a really great time. I meet Robert Green who on Monday night previewed a free set of soon to be released components called the VBPowerPack. Robert and I talked about …
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Why runat=”server” for ASP.NET?
One of the things I don’t like about ASP.NET is [runat=”server”]. Why can’t we set [runat=”server”] to be the default for certain tags? After all, isn’t every tag that starts with “<asp:” run at the server? Why make me bloat code? Why put something there I might forget to type and then waste my time figuring out …
My USA Map
I just visited Peter Provost’s blog and saw his map (his was about the 5th I’d seen) so I finally succumbed: create your own personalized map of the USA or write about it on the open travel guide
Developer Bias
Every developer has a set of bias that drives their development. A developer’s bias determines how they write code and what they consider is good vs. bad code. I believe there are few if any "well rounded" developers that provide equal weighting on all areas; that’s why having a team of developers with different bias …