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Looking for Mr (or Ms) GoodDeveloper

Business has been booming of late at ObjectSharp. Don't know whether it's the weather or the business cycle, but our recent company barbeque had more new faces that I've seen in many years. And we haven't lost any of the old faces either. And yet it doesn't Read More...

How geeks pass the time

As I mentioned earlier , I was at the Visual Studio/SQL Server/BizTalk product launch in Ottawa yesterday. I was lucky enough to be included I love getting a chance to talk to people who are just getting into .NET 2.0. I have been working with it on a Read More...

Toronto Code Camp Registration Opens

The rumours have been swirling. Now the truth is out. On Sat. Jan 14, there will be a Toronto Code Camp. You can register/find more infomation/hang out at http://www.torontocodecamp.com/ If you're a developer looking for in-depth content from the people Read More...

The Dual Life of Code Behind

When you create an ASP.NET page using Visual Studio .NET, the default processing model is to use code-behind (the basics of which I described here ). One of the more interesting aspects of code-behind is that you can specify the code for the code-behind Read More...

The Code Behind Model of ASP.NET

Almost from it’s beginning, HTML has been a mixture of data, display and logic. While the original static pages might have only combined data and display, once scripting was introduced the three disciplines have lived together uncomfortably. ASP Read More...

Licensing VSTS

If you're at all interested in using VSTS in your company, the announcement of the pricing for Team Systems was probably quite disturbing. More so if the number of developers on your team numbered in the single digits. Fortunately, Microsoft listened Read More...

New Article - Optimizing the Downloading of Large Files in ASP.NET

Just to let everyone know, I have posted a new article on techniques that can be used to optimize the downloading of large files in ASP.NET. It discusses some of the architectural issues that impact download speed if you need to push multi-megabyte files Read More...

Sending Mail through SMTP with Authentication

If you have looked at the process of sending emails from within .NET, odds are pretty good that you have stumbled across the SmtpServer class. To send email, you create a MailMessage object, assign the necessary properties and then use the Send method Read More...

Pure Math III - The SHA Also Rises

While perusing SlashDot, I came across an entry saying that the SHA-1 hashing algorithm has been broken. If you have any familiarity with cryptography, you'll realize just what this means. After all, SHA-1 is at the heart of SSL, digital signature and Read More...

Changing Gears

First off, I apologise for my relative dearth of recent posts. At the end of January, I finished off a fairly long contract. And, as yet, I haven't started onto anything new. Actually, it has been a nice break for me, but for my blog? Not so much. Whether Read More...
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