Recently I have been designing an Application Framework in .NET/ASP.NET 2.0.

For the past year or so, Martin Fowler has included the pattern Model-View-Presenter, or MVP, in his upcoming addendum to Patterns of Enterprise Application Development. Due to apparent confusions …

I was getting the following error when trying to start IIS from my XP machine:

Sam Ruby points to this demonstration of "situational mashups" using IBM's DB2 v9. DB2 v9, aka "Viper", supports XPath and XQuery, and even Atom syndication.

The London Girl Geek Dinner short film has just been released. Here is an exclusive first look at it prior to it going on FourDocs. It was filmed about a month ago by Angela Saini of ITN who was ju…

A few months ago I wrote a simple Javascript beautifier, which suited my needs at the time. But since then while dissecting longer AJAX-centric scripts in various websites, I found some things that…

I’ve been looking into a new notebook lately and while “some” of the hardware configurations should make it Aero Glass compatible and potentially pass the Vista Upgrade Advisor muster, there’s just…

Updated: June 12, 2006 - I had some debug code in there, basically a sleep for a second statement - doh! - I've removed it and Zip file updated

I have been a fan of Egypt since I was a kid. I taught myself (some) hieroglypics, went on excavations in the backyard, and even had plans to be mummified. So when I saw King Tut was back in the st…

I presented a session on WPF at the Arizona .NET User's Group last night, and today have been getting email and calls from several people who wished they could have been in attendance, and wanted t…

There are lost of discussion on the internet about the Interface vs Abstract class. Also, as base class whether we have to use interface, abstract class or normal class.

If you are having problems viewing CHM files (like the new WCF documentation CHM files), you might be seeing a blank IE screen when you click on any of the subject headings contained ni the file. I…

Playing around with incorporating Data Transfer Objects into my project, I figure I can use a touch of reflection to manage most assembler cases which are called from my service layer. May be a tad…

Jamie Thomson has an interesting post here http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2006/06/20/4106.aspx about some of his recent experiences with Analysis Services.

> I/O completion ports allow threads to wait efficiently for completion of multiple I/O requests. Before Vista, each completion caused a context switch to the issuing thread. Now, the I/O completio…

Go to the Apache download page and download the version (apache\2.0.54-win32-x86-no\ssl.msi) of Apache web server. I tried downloading some latest versions also but faced few issues in installation…

This tool only give full trust as requvirment.

In my last post I talked about a great little UMPC I bought while on vacation in Japan, Sony's VGN-UX50. Once back in the states and having caught up with work again I installed XP Pro English with…

While in Japan a week and a half ago I picked up Sony's new teeny ultramobile (UMPC), the Vaio VGN-UX50. Strongly reminiscent of the OQO, its sliding screen reveals an integrated keyboard. And alth…

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