Section: Blogs
Ok… I can finally read my comments again…
Aug 8, 2004 1 min.
I’m sure I’ll be one of many commenting on this, but the recent updates to .Text on this site are a wonderful improvement. For the past while I had been unable to really sift out the good comments from the bad, so real (non-spam) comments to the VB or C# FAQ sites, and to this blog… were all being drowned out by all of the spam. Keeping up with it (to delete the spam) was almost impossible and I gave up some time ago …
Aug 6, 2004 1 min.
A couple of weeks ago I posted my “Quick Poll” Coding 4 Fun column in its unedited form… was that useful? If it was, I can continue to do that with my articles … basically posting my version of them up in advance onto www.duncanmackenzie.net and then redirecting that to the real article once it ends up on MSDN.
Aug 5, 2004 1 min.
Blurb copied using the cool “Blog This” link on the ondotnet pages 🙂 Rapid Application Development with VB.NET 2.0 by Jesse Liberty — For a couple of years now, Jesse Liberty been touting the Microsoft endorsed-sentiment that it really doesn’t matter if you program in C# or in VB.NET, since both are just syntactic sugar layered on top of MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language, the true language of .NET). That appears to be changing a bit with Whidbey.
Updated the headlines on the VB Community page today…
Aug 3, 2004 1 min.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/community I added a little blurb at the top asking folks to send in any ideas they have for this page, please use it… I try to scan the community sites regularly but I’m certainly missing a lot of stuff. If you see something worth noting on the VB site, let me know.
Jul 30, 2004 1 min.
** Whiteboard with Anders Hejlsberg ** At Tech Ed 2004, Anders Hejlsberg gave an informal talk, answered attendee questions, and wrote some code examples on the whiteboard. (July 29)
New Coding 4 Fun Article up…
Jul 29, 2004 1 min.
Add a Quick Poll to Your Web Site Summary: Duncan Mackenzie describes his process to build a “Quick Poll” using Visual Basic and ASP.NET. Recent discussions have motivated me to add some ‘anti-repeat-voting’ code to this sample… I’ve finished up most of the changes, so grab the sample from the article if you are interested and then watch this space for more information on the additions!
Jul 28, 2004 1 min.
I’m playing around with my voting control and I was thinking of (in addition to a cookie based check) querying to see how recently this IP address had tried voting and if it was within ‘x’ seconds, rejecting the vote… Something more extreme, like rejecting any second vote from the same IP seems wrong, since multiple people could be coming in through the same IP.. in fact, you have to assume that is likely over time…
Trying out something ‘bad’…
Jul 28, 2004 1 min.
So, if you missed it… I was just playing with displaying a poll in the blog… don’t worry, I won’t make a habit of this :)… I did it using the spawn of evil an iframe… I’ve removed it now, the experiment is done… but it exposed an interesting problem. When viewed through the IFRAME IE’s default settings (well, my settings… I’m not sure if they are the default) blocked any cookies from that page, which meant that you could vote as often as you liked… hmm… not a good thing.
I’m thinking of adding login/registration to my personal site…
Jul 27, 2004 1 min.
Not sure what scenarios this will be used to enable in the long run, but I might play around with some web services (with authentication) and a few ‘prototypes’ for articles and MSDN features that I’ve been musing about… Do you run a personal site? Do you have any form of authentication? What do you use to handle it (I’m planning Forms Authentication against SQL Server)? What do you use it for?
Solutions at a Glance… great for all .NET developers interested in security…
Jul 27, 2004 2 min.
I was just talking with J.D. Meier (from PAG) about the Improving Application Security book and he pointed out a great page to me… the “Solutions At A Glance” list… this page lists a ton of very frequently asked questions around .NET security and provides links deep into all that great PAG security info. Some examples; How to write secure managed code Use strong names to digitally sign your assemblies and to make them tamperproof.