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Sometimes you just gotta ask yourself: What Would Blanka Do? [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67251,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4] > "Eventually, my nickname at school became Blanka. When I got into real fights, I even tried using some of his moves. They never
I just posted a new article on CodeProject, .NET Encryption Simplified. In my spare time over the last 6 months, I've delved deeper and deeper into the System.Security.Cryptography classes. And you know what I learned? Cryptography is hard. Anyway, I now have a heavily documented wrapper
Due to popular demand one person's request, I added for sale searching to my existing craigslist.org all-city search page. I also made a few other minor improvements: * Searching of Jobs or For Sale items * Selection of subcategories * Age of posts in days is shown as an offset
After years of building ad-hoc test harnesses, I finally adopted formal unit testing on a recent project of mine using NUnit [http://www.nunit.org/] and TestRunner [http://www.mailframe.net/Products/TestRunner/]. It was gratifyingly simple to get my first unit tests up and running: <TestFixture()> _ Public
One of the key diagnostic data points for any .NET assembly is "when was it built"? Until recently, I thought there were only two ways to suss this out: 1. Check the filesystem date and time 2. Derive the build date from the assembly version The filesystem method
At work, we have the luxury of assuming that everyone's on an intranet. So when it comes to identity management on our ASP.NET websites, NTLM authentication [http://dotnetjunkies.com/Article/6B31D299-347C-4B85-82C5-954546165C80.dcik] is the go-to solution. Why trouble the user with Yet Another Login Dialog when you
Cyrus bemoans the user interface catastrophe known as tabbed browsing [http://blogs.msdn.com/cyrusn/archive/2005/04/10/406971.aspx]: > As far as I can tell, tabs just exist to violate the existing window managment systems I have in the OSs i use. So all the built-in ways
In Maciej Ceglowski's cutting counterpoint [http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm] to Paul Graham's Hackers and Painters [http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html], he cites a key difference between software development and painting: writing software doesn't get you laid. >
I had a great time at today's Raleigh MSDN Code Camp. There's nothing better than geeking out with a bunch of guys (and gals) who are as passionate about this stuff as you are! For anyone who couldn't attend, here's a a
If anyone reading this is local to Raleigh-Durham and signed up for the 2005 Raleigh Code Camp [http://www.codecamp.org] at NC State [http://www.codecamp.org/Logistics.aspx], fair warning: I'll be presenting there. The speaker schedule [http://www.codecamp.org/Schedule.aspx] is packed with
Why are the smallest bugs in the .NET framework always the most disproportionately frustrating? Take the wsdlHelpGenerator [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/gngrfwsdlhelpgenerator.asp] element, for example. Sure, it seems straightforward enough; you want to replace the default crappy, random hash sorted list
I learned to appreciate the value of the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) algorithm in my 8-bit, 300 baud file transferring days. If the CRC of the local file matched the CRC stored in the file (or on the server), I had a valid download. I also learned a little bit