I’ve never displayed advertising on my blog before, mostly because I hate reading blog posts on SOAP and seeing Google ads for Ivory Liquid. Targeted advertising, on the other hand, is entirely different.
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I’ve temporarily changed the background of my blog to green to express solidarity with those who yearn for freedom in Iran. If you have a blog or website of your own, won’t you please consider doing the same?
Continue reading "Green Your Blog to Support Free and Fair Elections in Iran"
A tutorial on how to build extensions for Graffiti CMS. Here, I walk through how to build an extension in C# / .NET that lets your readers tweet your blog posts – complete with title and automatically generated bit.ly URL – with one click.
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I read a interesting article recently about the potential perils of Null Check Hell. The author’s suggestion? Stop allowing any of your methods to return null, ever. No nulls returned, no null checks necessary. Problem solved, right?
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If you’ve ever worked with the The BeerHouse Starter Kit featured in the Wrox book ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem – Design - Solution, you may have noticed that the author neglected to provide a mechanism to allow users to change their email address after signing up. Here is a brief tutorial that shows how to add that functionality.
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Wow, who’da thunk it? The (otherwise) very smart dudes who run DotNetKicks usually have their s#!+ together. So imagine my surprise a couple of days ago when I mosey on over to the site, and was greeted by this.
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The Exception object has one purpose and one purpose only – to represent a runtime error, nothing more. Exceptions should never be used for purposes for which they were not intended, or you could end up with this monstrosity.
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Performers do it. Politicians do it. Pro athletes do it. Why not you? If you want to get better at any activity – whether it’s delivering presentations, or tacking a few extra yards to your tee shot – one of the most effective methods is to watch yourself in action.
Continue reading "Presenter, Tape Thyself"
Catching Exception, SystemException, or ApplicationException; or coding empty catch blocks, aren’t simply "bad practices" — it’s just plain wrong. Here's why you shouldn't do it.
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With jQuery plugins being the new hotness, it seems the gold ol’ AJAX Control Toolkit isn’t getting much respect these days. But Bertrand LeRoy and the dedicated ToolKit gang keep plugging along, and have come up with three great new controls – HTMLEditor, ComboBox, and ColorPicker – as well as a slew of bug fixes, new samples, tutorials and videos too.
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