Looking for a way to test the email sending functionality of your application? There’s no need to install a full-blown SMTP server – not as long as you have Antix SMTP Server for Developers in your bag of tricks.
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Mail sent from your application didn’t go through? Don’t give up so easily! The majority of mail server interruptions are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few seconds. Instead of failing right away, why not give your SMTP client another shot?
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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?
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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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