Stuart Langridge [http://www.kryogenix.org/], writes about why he doesn’t like databases [http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2004/01/17/databases] and why to “use the filesystem as your database” (in context to the backend of a blog, I guess). IMO, it may hold some value to design…
Beta 2 of Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability [http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/workspaces/workspace.aspx?ID=540F8BD7-BE95-45F7-A477-919D23294553] from the Patterns and Practices book. As?Sam Gentile?blogged about beta 1 [http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2003/12/08/10858.aspx] of this book, it contains a wealth of…
The Middleware Company [http://www.middleware-company.com/], a training/consulting company, conducted an experiment comparing J2EE and .NET performance. This whitepaper details those results. Free download – J2EE verses .NET performance comparison [http://www.middleware-company.com/j2eedotnetbench/report.shtml].…
Tabbing in a TextArea or a TextBox?has been a distant feature to think of up until now, as Justin Lovell [http://blogs.aspadvice.com/jlovell/]?shares a?simple?JavaScript (IE 5+ only) which makes it possible to insert a tab via the keyboard into a?TextArea or a TextBox.…
I didn’t knew up until today that Matthew Reynolds [http://weblogs.asp.net/mreynolds/] (dotnet247.com [http://www.dotnet247.com]) has already launched WinFX247 [http://www.winfx247.com]?(beta). The new site?holds WinFX (that will?be .NET’s big brother?when Longhorn comes out [http://www.theregister.co.…
DavidM [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/davidm/] is running some interesting notes on DataTable Relational Operators (in C#) — Introduction [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/davidm/posts/717.aspx], JOIN [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/davidm/posts/748.aspx], UNION [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/davidm/posts/724.aspx], DISTINCT helper method [http://weblogs.sqlteam.…
Brendan Tompkins [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/BsBlog/]?shares his approach (called Sticky Draggable Divs or SDDs [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/BsBlog/posts/5629.aspx]) on creating Modal WebForms in ASP.NET. Although I personally don’t like the idea of?using excessive JavaScript and DHTML in?project?implementations except for…
Finally, back to where I left in December. The holiday season was great and it was fun to spend quality time with family & friends. Anyways, I’m back at work – immediately attending to an “interesting” vulnerability in a client’s application (more on it later). Well, last year (2003)…