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Archive for May, 2009
The Quality of a Good Web Host
Today’s topic is not a new one, at least for me. I have seen some tweets the last few days that has brought this topic back up for discussion: The quality of good web hosting. I will go ahead and say right off the top that I am in the camp of believers who say [...]
Display Alternate Syle for Alternating Rows in C#
This is just a quick little tip to help you display alternating row colors in your C# code for a DataList or GridView control. Using the AlternatingItemTemplate method is a pain, as it forces you to duplicate your entire ItemTemplate block just to add the alternating CSS class. While trying to find another means of [...]
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Released to MSDN
Just a quick note that Microsoft has released beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 to MSDN subscribers. This also includes the first look at .NET 4.0. Currently it’s only available to MSDN subscribers, but should be released to the general public on Wednesday. You can read all the information on VS 2010 on the Microsoft [...]
ColdFusion Gets Some Gartner Love
Finally, some good press for ColdFusion! Mark Driver, a Gartner analyst, recently published an analyst note on ColdFusion. It has some good things to say about ColdFusion and that Abobe has strong support for the product. Nice to see others praising a product that we in the ColdFusion community have praised for years. The report [...]
Twitter Changes @reply Options
Twitter rolled out a new “small settings update” that has changed the options for the @reply features. The change has caused an outrage for most users in the Twitter community. Before the update, you could set the @reply features for yourself, choosing from 1 of the 3 options: Show @replies from nobody, show @replies from [...]
Flash vs Silverlight
I just wanted to pass along a very in depth article by the folks at Smashing Magazine comparing Flash and Silverlight. They compare the two technologies between 14 different categories ranging from animation to media streaming. Also, make sure you read the comments at the end of the article as there are some great thoughts [...]
Former Nebraska QB Sam Keller Suing EA Sports and the NCAA
While reading my morning sports news, I came across this article on ESPN.com about former Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller taking EA Sports and the NCAA to court. Keller is claiming that EA Sports wrongly uses the names and likenesses of collegiate athletes and that the NCAA allows this to happen. If you have ever played [...]
Will Twitter Kill RSS Feeds?
I have read numerous articles this week on the subject of Twitter replacing RSS feeds for some people, so I thought I would share my two cents on the subject. I’ll start by saying I was a late adopter to Twitter, having been signed up for only a few months now. Over that time period [...]
Great WordPress Plugin – Absolute Privacy
For those of you that follow this blog, you know I was looking for a web based code snippet library. After checking out some of the ones I came across I ended up making the decision to use a WordPress blog for the library. It has everything I needed out of the box (categories, tags, [...]
Using Dynamic Meta Tags In .NET
I’ve been working on an ASP.NET project recently and came across the need to dynamically set the values for all of the HTML tags. The site is built using ASP.NET master pages and I have a default page for each section that the URL Routing functionality calls to load up the content. Each page can [...]
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