AMA Insider
I recently wrote an article for my local flying club’s newsletter and it got picked up by the national organization (the Academy of Model Aeronautics, or AMA). Titled “The Three […]
Yes, Santa, There is an East Virginia
True story from Sara Faatz, Wintellect’s director of marketing and communications, who recently moved from Virginia to Georgia: I went to UPS today to ship out some packages. As part […]
Francesco Gets a Facelift
Francesco Balena is at it again: his .NET-to-the-Max Web site is looking really spiffy after a facelift, and Francesco tells me that in the future, most of his writing will […]
XslCompiledTransform Performance
I’ve been meaning to write some benchmark code to compare the performance of .NET 2.0’s new XslCompiledTransform class and 1.1’s deprecated XslTransform. I finally got around to it this morning, […]
Spice Up Your Web Pages
Want to add a cool (albeit IE-only) effect to your ASP.NET 2.0 Web pages? If so, add the following statement to the <head> element of the site’s master page: <meta […]
Comment My Code
I saw a neat T-shirt the other day that said something like this: Comment my code? Why do you think they call it code? I think I’ll buy one for […]
SqlCacheDependency Hell
I just emerged from SqlCacheDependency hell–actually, SQL Server 2005 hell. I thought I’d document the problem (and the solution) so others won’t have to waste as much time as I […]
Jerky Heaven
I love beef jerky. It’s a great snack when you’re hiking, scuba diving, or spending a long day at the flying field. Lately I’ve been in jerky heaven since a […]
Session State Partitioning
ASP.NET 2.0 is so chock full of new features that it’s hardly surprising some of those features are barely documented (or not documented at all). I love sifting through the […]