What makes one developer better than another? Shouldn’t we all be performing at the same level? Of course not, we’re not sewing buttons on an assembly line. We’re using every bit of our intelligence to create something that we can…
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Subtext blog platform feature requests
For this blog, I’m currently using WordPress. For my personal blog, I chose to use SubText. SubText is an ASP.NET based installable blogging platform that was originally based on the .Text source code. I initially tried to stay with a…
LINQ, I’m not ready for you just yet
Today I was between features on the current project I’m working on, so I had some free time start researching some technologies I’ve been meaning to learn and start using. The topics at the top of my learning list are…
.NET XML DataSet Generator from a SQL Query
As promised, I’ve now made the .NET XML DataSet Generator available on Google Code. If anyone can think of a better name for the project, please let me know! It’s really hard to convey what it actually does. On the…
IIS 6 and Apache on the same server and port
This has been written about before, but I just ran into it, and hopefully I can save someone a headache. I installed Apache on my dedicated server, which has 9 IP addresses. Since all my sites have a dedicated…
Converted my blog from Blogger to WordPress
Well I did it. I actually really liked using Blogger, and I had finally gotten my blog set up the way I liked. However, I just wanted a little more. I evaluated a couple of different solutions (including Subtext, which…
Adding social tech site buttons to Blogger
ObiShawn asked me how I added the buttons at the end of each post for the social tech sites. You can look at the end of this post to see what I mean. It’s simple! Edit the HTML for your…
Working with content areas in code behind
In my master page, I have a ContentPlaceHolder defined: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder runat="server" ID="AfterScripts"> </asp:ContentPlaceHolder> In the page, I have the content defined: <asp:Content runat="server" ID="conTrackingScripts" ContentPlaceHolderID="AfterScripts"> <!– Blah –> </asp:Content> Unfortunately, this code does not work: conTrackingScripts.Visible = false; The error…
Serving your ASP.NET .aspx pages with .html
Many SEO experts believe that Google prefers pages that end with the "html" extension. I’m guessing it has to do with the fact that static content is favored, because it is less commonly spammed. Even if Google doesn’t actually look…
Disable constraints in “After Insert” trigger
I have a table that stores extra information (Users) that gets associated with the "aspnet_Membership" table in my application. Since my table references the membership table, I have a foreign key for referential integrity. I added a trigger to the…
