While 100 percent backward compatible with ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0 brings a number of internal changes to ASP.NET. These include changes to the code model, compilation, page lifecycle, and more. This article outlines those changes. (21 printed pages) Read article here:...
Read More25 Ways to Improve Productivity. Simple keyboard shortcuts and other tips that will change the way you code in Visual Studio. Some of these tips you may already know and the ones you don't will be very valuable… Read more:...
Read MoreSome nice souls over at Flexbeta.net have taken the liberty to compare and review the top anti-spyware programs on the market, namely: AdAware, Spybot S&D, SpySweeper, SpyHunter and SpyRemover. With spyware on the rise they wanted to see which spyware/adware removal tool worked best under an infected machine. We placed 5 spyware/adware scanning and removing applications head-to-head to see which one gave the best results as far as finding the most infected objects. Article...
Read MoreAs web developers, we all know browsercam.com, a paid service that creates screen captures of your web pages loaded in any browser and on any operating system. With over 12 browsers and many operating systems and resolution, it is an expensive but vital service. I had not seen any alternatives, but now Daniel Vine has written a free service that allows you to see your site as it looks in various versions of Mac, IE and PC browsers. It does not offer the variety of browsercam, but it covers the essential browsers and has won a spot in my favorites. IE and PC browsers: www.danvine.com/iecapture/ Mac Safari 1.2 browser:...
Read MorePosting your email address on a website is a sure-fire way to get an inbox full of unsolicited email advertisement. The Enkoder protects email addresses by converting them into encrypted Javascript code, hiding them from the email-harvesting robots while revealing them to real people. Encrypt here:...
Read MoreCircular Breakout – great twist on the old classic of Breakout or also known as Arkanoid. I rarely, if at all, play any games online, but this one caught my attention: great graphics, smooth and natural motion make this game hard to put down. Check it out: Circular...
Read MoreFor 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages! O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF), which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded...
Read MoreI stumbled across this site and added it to my favorites. It has a nice collection of miscellaneous code snippets and other links too. Psacake Code library Psacake useful other...
Read More…and how to make the most of it. PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page… See the article here:...
Read MoreCAPTCHA stands for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart." What it means is, a program that can tell humans from machines using some type of generated test. A test most people can easily pass but a computer program cannot. You've probably encountered such tests when signing up for an online email or forum account. The form might include an image of distorted text, like that seen above, which you are required to type into a text field. The idea is to prevent spammers from using web bots to automatically post form data in order to create email accounts (for sending spam) or to submit feedback comments or guestbook entries containing spam messages. The text in the image is usually distorted to prevent the use of OCR (optical character reader) software to defeat the process. Hotmail, PayPal, Yahoo and a number of blog sites have employed this technique. This article demonstrates how to create such an image and employ it within an ASP.NET web form....
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