Archive for 2007

State of the Blog: 2007

Time for the standard end-of-year review, and peek at the upcoming 2008.

December 31, 2007 @ 4:40 pm — 2 Comments

Posted in General

Daily Links – December 29, 2007

1 Bookmarks

December 29, 2007 @ 8:18 am — 0 Comments

Posted in Useful Links

.NET Projects: Automating Builds with NAnt

Building a .NET project can be a multi-step process. There’s compilation, unit testing, code analysis, documentation…It goes on and on. Ordinarily, this could be done manually, one step at a time, but it would get tedious very quickly. Well, it so happens there is a useful tool called NAnt that can automate this process, replacing multiple actions with just one. Read on to find out how.

December 28, 2007 @ 9:59 pm — 1 Comment

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Internet Explorer 8 to Catch up on Standards?

The web is abuzz with some news from the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft – IE8 is expected to take some big steps towards catching up with the web.

December 22, 2007 @ 10:05 pm — 0 Comments

Posted in Web Browsers — Tagged

links for 2007-12-20

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Using the CustomValidator Control
Illustrates use of ASP.NET’s custom validator control when custom validation is needed
(tags: asp.net controls validation)

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Disabling the Submit Button Until a CheckBox is Checked
Shows how a custom CheckBoxValidator control from a previous article can be extended to conditionally enable or disable a form button
(tags: asp.net controls validation)

December 20, 2007 @ 8:22 am — 0 Comments

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links for 2007-12-18

mod_rewrite: A Beginner’s Guide to URL Rewriting [Apache & IIS Configuration]
(tags: apache htaccess mod_rewrite)

Top 7 PHP Security Blunders [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]
Shows various potential security issues when writing PHP-based sites
(tags: php security)

Roland Weigelt’s GhostDoc
GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C#. Either by using existing documentation inherited [...]

December 18, 2007 @ 8:21 am — 0 Comments

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Daily Links – December 15, 2007

3 Bookmarks

December 15, 2007 @ 8:22 am — 0 Comments

Posted in Useful Links

links for 2007-12-14

The Visual Studio Look and Feel – Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#]
Patrick Smacchia has released an updated version of NDepend with a GUI similar to Visual Studio
(tags: .net tools ndepend)

Styling Forms with Attribute Selectors – Part 1 – Opera Developer Community
In this article, the first of a two-part series, we will look at attribute selectors and [...]

December 14, 2007 @ 8:19 am — 0 Comments

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Daily Links – December 13, 2007

2 Bookmarks

December 13, 2007 @ 8:25 am — 0 Comments

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Dave and Derek Speak to the Better Web Posse

Last night, I had the pleasure to attend a presentation put on by Dave Shea and Derek Featherstone. This was a great opportunity, as both are notable figures in the web industry. There was a goodly turnout at the event, as it had been publicized on the Better Web Posse site.
Dave started the [...]

December 11, 2007 @ 6:45 pm — 0 Comments

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