Amit Gupta (sorry I got your name wrong before Amit) blogs about an interview with a spammer. Now I’ve had some spamming problems in the past and seeing that the number of comments that Spam Karma ate just keeps going up it seems to have been a good idea to install some protection.
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Japanese
You gotta hand it to them Japanese folks – they sure come up with some great stuff. Take for instance this link to a lap pillow found while browsing around /\ndy’s Weblog.
Lose
Check out an early preview here. Update 20-02-05: I played the damn thing on my laptop and it was horrible. Half of the instruments could not be heared and those that could sounded so afwul that you’d wish you couldn’t. I already tweaked it but I haven’t uploaded a new version yet. I’ll leave the …
Object
About an hour ago I finished David West’s Object Thinking. It’s a great book and a must read for anyone who thinks that he or she knows object oriented development. He saved me from the clutches of the formalists and structured programming. Of course, I still have to convert the guys at work but at …
TDD
Lately, since I’ve started programming the .NET framework, I’ve become more and more interrested again in test driven development. Usually I’ve to write a lot of data access code but I never really found out a good way to unit test it. Luckily, Roy Osherove has written a very nice article about it on his …
Syntax
It has been a while since I last posted but that’s because I’m going slightly crazy with this syntax highlighting business… Ok, I had a very basic version working on a RichTextBox but this control is an absolute nightmare to work with. It has all kinds of properties and events but it lacks those which …
ViewState
Aaargh! Why is my ViewState so large? Even when setting the EnableViewState property to false for each control and the page itself there’s still an enourmous amount of ViewState… How can this be? Well, it turns out that there are some other items that get stored in the ViewState. We’re in luck though because Paul …
Amun
Amun is a basic SQL sandbox. It is designed to be a reasonably friendly and safe environment (hopefully in the future – at this point you can do pretty much everything your database allows) in which you can build and try out connection strings and SQL commands. One of my collegues tried out a previous …
Page
This is something that I have pondered on multiple times – what’s the best way for a UserControl to communicate with its containing page or another UserControl on the same page? Well, even though I already have found out most of the techniques in this article by Karl Seguin, it’s always reassuring to read that …
.NET
This article by John Sample gives some handy pointers on how to use bitwise operations on enum types in .NET. Especially useful if you need to store related boolean values like user rights or settings.