Here's a particularly special bug, because this represents my FIRST experience with MSN Messenger 6.0, which I installed and my friend Adam's urging.  :)   That's Adam in the upper right corner.  What's that in the lower right corner you ask?  Well, that's not me, but a reverse image of my USB TV Tuner.  Apparently...

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I'm surprised I'm just now noticing this. Jon Galloway hooked up the apparently unused System.Web.Handler.BatchHandler to an httpHandler and was able to precompile all his .ASPX pages. This could be useful during deployment to catch any goofs in ASPX code. Certainly not something you want on in production lest you be DoS'ed with compilation,...

I'm surprised I'm just now noticing this. Jon Galloway hooked up the apparently unused System.Web.Handler.BatchHandler to an httpHandler and was able to precompile all his .ASPX pages. This could be useful during deployment to catch any goofs in ASPX code. Certainly not something you want on in production lest you be DoS'ed with compilation,...

I've pretty much solved the comment-Spam problem (only one person has voiced their distaste so far) but a recently perusal of my logs and older posts indicated a ridiculous amount of referral spam.  This is when someone hits a post on your site and has changed/hacked the HTTP Referrer Header to indicate where they came from. If your...

I've pretty much solved the comment-Spam problem (only one person has voiced their distaste so far) but a recently perusal of my logs and older posts indicated a ridiculous amount of referral spam.  This is when someone hits a post on your site and has changed/hacked the HTTP Referrer Header to indicate where they came from. If your...

I spend a lot of time with the XmlSerializer (I personally dig it immensely, and I think too many people complain about it, but anyway) and while I put up an article on how to debug directly into the generated assemblies, I noticed that Mathew Nolton has a GUI Front-End to Chris's XmlSerializerPreCompiler. The tool will check to see if a type...

I spend a lot of time with the XmlSerializer (I personally dig it immensely, and I think too many people complain about it, but anyway) and while I put up an article on how to debug directly into the generated assemblies, I noticed that Mathew Nolton has a GUI Front-End to Chris's XmlSerializerPreCompiler. The tool will check to see if a type...

A fellow emailed me wanting to screen scrape, er, ah, harvest a page that only displays the data he wants with a postback. Remember what an HTTP GET looks like under the covers: GET /whatever/page.aspx?param1=value&param2=value Note that the GET includes no HTTP Body. That's important. With a POST the 'DATA' moves from the...

I've not been one to work the newsgroups, answering questions. I probably should. I'm more of a one on one person, and I tend to go the extra mile when folks (largely strangers) ask me technical questions. I've had email threads 10-deep with total strangers on technical questions, and only at the end do I say, "Um, do I know you?" I...

I've not been one to work the newsgroups, answering questions. I probably should. I'm more of a one on one person, and I tend to go the extra mile when folks (largely strangers) ask me technical questions. I've had email threads 10-deep with total strangers on technical questions, and only at the end do I say, "Um, do I know you?" I...

It's 1:09am on Thursday, December 2nd 2004, and here's the view from my bedroom window. The house next door is burning and we share a wooden fence. Pretty exciting stuff! Fortunately, I'm not too worried, I'm in a family of fire-fighters.     P.S. For those of you not in the U.S., most, if not all, residential housing (especially...

It's 1:09am on Thursday, December 2nd 2004, and here's the view from my bedroom window. The house next door is burning and we share a wooden fence. Pretty exciting stuff! Fortunately, I'm not too worried, I'm in a family of fire-fighters.     P.S. For those of you not in the U.S., most, if not all, residential housing (especially...

Here's a great little free util that Omar has found.  I used to move the plugin's manually to speed things up, but PDF Speedup makes me NOT DREAD opening a PDF anymore. BTW, does Acrobat 6 suck LOTS more than Acrobat 5? I HATE the new Find Dialog. I have previously written about how darn slow Adobe Acrobat 6 is when launching. I...