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February, 2008Archive

Feb 21

Haack on versioning issues on the MVC framework

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After reading this post, I think that I need to catch up on my sleep :,,) I”m not sure if I buy the justifications presented by Phil. And it seems that there are other (smarter) guys that aren”t buying it either…

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Feb 21

Book review: Hunting Security Bugs

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I”ve just finished reading my copy of Hunting Security Bugs.I must say that I was really pleased with the quality and coverage of the book.  The authors present several examples that show how things can start going bad really easy. The book will give you several clues and show how you can trace security issues […]

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Feb 21

[Warning: definitely not a technical post] Those 3 guys that normally read my blog (yes, I believe that I”ve managed to overcome my previous record of 2!) may recall the “switch to ASP.NET blogs and then back to msmvps.com again”. It seems like I”m not the only one that got pissed with some of the […]

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Feb 20

Today I was called to investigate a performance problem with a page of a web application. It was a simple page, with several tabs where each tab loaded several items from the database. According to the guys that wrote the app, things started getting worse with each tab that got added to the page and, […]

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Feb 18

Resharper 4.0 Nightly builds are out!

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Check them here.

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Feb 16

Improving the user experience with BumpTop

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This is really cool! Just watch the video and see for yourself…

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Feb 10

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

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Omar Al Zabir has published a cool article on codeproject where he presents several cool tips that will help you improve the performance of your ASP.NET web apps.

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Feb 07

Application services IV: authenticating the user in an offline scenario

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In my previous posts I”ve been talking about the basic features introduced by the new Applications Services which were added during the latest release of the .NET platform. Today we”ll see how easy it is to configure our windows form app so that it is able to authenticate a user in an offline scenario. As […]

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Feb 07

London visit photos

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I”ve just finished uploading some photos from my trip to London. Check them out in facebook.

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