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When searching for a Content Management System (CMS), I was looking for a system that would have all the functionality for a personal website and would also be a good tool to learn as a developer.  Additionally, I was looking for a system that was:...

Technology is the decisive component which determines the speed at which a business can commoditize the competition’s advantage and simultaneously develop and protect its own.    I love that statement.  I run around quoting it as much...

Wrote a new articlehttp://www.technosutra.com/blogs/darryla/articles/1108.aspx...

For the last week or two, I got excited when I found out that Verzion finally released a phone with Wi-Fi that doesn't require me having to pay $50/month for EV-DO access to get on the internet.  I use the Wi-Fi when I'm home (I want it to sync...

Yup, it's true...  SQL Express has a 4GB limit.  It's tough to get to 4GB for most normal things, but I'm building a data warehouse.  This irked me and cost me around 2 hours while I cleared space on a Windows 2003 Server with SQL Server...

I am often purturbed when I think about boot times, app load times, my memory usage.  So, I finally did some unscientifc experiments to get to the bottom of this -- at least to satisfy my own questions.  Mainly I was interested in determining...

Scott from Vertigo Software has done it again with his demos for ASP.NET 2.0.  I especially liked the ones on memebership and profiles. I learned what I needed to know to make it happen in 30 mins and then another 30 mins to do it for real. ...

On April 11, Microsoft is expected to release a security update that will affect the way users interact with embedded rich media content including Macromedia Flash, Java Applets, Real Networks' RealPlayer, Microsoft Media Player, Apple's QuickTime,...

Linq uses C# Extension methodshttp://bloggingabout.net/blogs/olaf/archive/2005/09/18/9469.aspx Linq uses “lazy eval” or “deferred execution”http://blogs.msdn.com/dinesh.kulkarni/archive/2005/09/16/469340.aspx  ...

http://webdevelopment.developersnetwork.com/Articles.asp?Article=33 Great Article...

Here is a list of LINQ Resources MSDN LINQ Home LINQ Blogger RSS Feed Download the Tech Preview View 101 LINQ samples online http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2005/09/13/464904.aspxhttp://objectsharp.com/blogs/barry/archive/2005/09/13/3395.aspx...

I found this great tutorial on Section 508 compliance.  It's written by Jim Thatcher.http://www.jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm Just a quick scan of the tutorial will give you a very clear understanding on what making your site section 508 compliant is...

Insights into Google’s inner technology workings – from both a software and hardware perspective. Shows how they use software engineering for better performance and hardware engineering for reducing costs. http://www.infonortics.com/publications/google/technology.pd...

Someone in my office asked what people used for data access to Oracle.  The comments of this blog track the responses.  Why not add your suggestion?...

Last week was the Microsoft PDC 2005 (Professional Developer's Conference).  It's every two years and, IMO, a pretty important conference for the work we do. I'm still trying to catch up on what was demo'd.  The two highlights that...

I ran across a fascinating link today.  This site, KwMap, has built a site around keywords.  The idea is that you put in a keyword and it shows you all the other keywords related to the topic.  In many ways, I can see this being somewhat...

Ran across this posting about implementing the Revisit Meta Tag.  To be honest, I thought I knew all the tags.  This is a new one.  I'm curious if the major search engines actually care about this tag and read it.  I'll probably just...

There is much a content author can do with a web site to make it more "search engine friendly".  Knowing and acting on these basic tips will help us and our colleagues find what they are looking for quicker. Give all pages Title tags () ...

Cool article.  http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/   "The IT industry spends a huge amount of money on security -- and yet worms, spyware, and other relatively mindless attacks are still able to create massive...

Ran across this post today.  Corny, but humorous: C+-, a New Subject Oriented Programming Language C+- (pronounced "C more or less") Unlike C++, C+- is a subject oriented language. Each C+- class instance, known as a subject, holds hidden members,...

This block of code will purge all of the elements in your ASP.NET Cache.  The trick is to get the Key from each element in the Cache object so that you can use the Remove() function.IDictionaryEnumerator cache = HttpContext.Current.Cache.GetEnumerator();...

I always became irked when I realized that I needed to generate a new machine key but had to write all this code to do it.  (Not sure why MS didn't just include a little tool in Visual Studio for this.  Anyhow, I finally found some code...

29 Ways to Drive Traffic to your Website... and keep them coming back! by Maria Marsala In 1998, if you wanted someone to find your website, you placed some "meta tags" on it, and submitted it to free search engines or directories. In 2002, there are...

I constantly get asked what is a good piece of survey software.  I always suggest Inquisite because I've actually used it (and I used to work for their sister company Catapult Systems).  But it is very good software.  The price-tag is usually...

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