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Application Security through Active Directory and ADAM
One of the things we're dealing with here is application security and authorization for users (authentication). Craig McMurtry has a great series on implementing application security using AD (Active Directory) and…
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Problem And Solution: "Login failes for some users on a DotNetNuke based portal"
This was bothering me for a while now, but I've figured it out. If you're DotNetNuke based site suffers from the “Impossible Login Phantom” problem which is described as: “Some of my users can login to the site just…
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Happy Birthday (or: throwing your wife from an airplane for good causes)
'twas a good weekend start, and one day still left! Thursday night (official work week end, Friday we don't work, but Sunday we do) Tal and me went to a dance club (TLV if you know it) and partied like it was 1999.…
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ILdotNet - Israel's .Net User Group Information Center
(this only applies to folks living in Israel) I got tired of always looking up some specific user group's site, and what's the next meeting and all that. So I made this site: www.ilDotNet.com Here are the current site…
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Thanks for the System.Web.Mail FAQ, Dave
I just wanted to take the stage to thank Dave Wanta for putting up the site “ System.Web.Mail FAQ ”. It just saved me from some really obscure problem. Dave also has many other very helpful endeavors and is seriously…
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Getting a little closer to SOA
Fabrice has written a very good and informative article about what SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is all about. Getting a little closer to SOA If you're not sure what SOA really means, but you keep hearing this…
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.Net Rocks bullet points
Just a few quick notes about .Net rocks . The show with Brian Noyes (3 shows ago) was one of the best rundowns on Smart Clients (auto deployed) applications I've heard. Highly recommended. Still have not listened to the…
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[Book] Extreme programming adventures in C#
Ron Jefferies has released his book: Extreme programming adventures in C# Although from the editorial chatter it looks like its mainly aimed at learning the basic skills (What is NUnit.. and so on) I'm probably going to…
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Asp.Net slider control?
A friend is trying to implement a slider control in an ASP.Net page. Know any good control for download to do this out of the box? should have server events as well. I can't find any, and maybe ActiveX is not the best…
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Pair Programming analysis - illuminating!
This is a must read if you have ever heard about pair programming and thought “never gonna work“. Be sure to download the PDF as well as it contains very good pictures that show how the developer space is laid out.…
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A Power-Point mystery
Here's one for Raymond Chen , since he likes to dig into these things. Why the hell is the “continue from current slide” button in PowerPoint so darn small and unreachable? Many a times have I seen the poor presenter…
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[Cool Tool] CodeSmith 2.5
Ah. CodeSmith 2.5 is out with some nifty new features . If you don't know what CodeSmith is, you're missing on a very good and productivity enhancing tool, which is freeware. It saves you lots of typing and allows…
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The Regulator featured on RegexLib.com
The Regulator , my Regex testing tool, has been named by Regexlib.com as their “recommended tool for testing regular expressions” and has been put up there in the front page. They also put up a resource page for many…
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.Net user group review: BizTalk rules engine
I met Memi today at the .Net architects user group. I knew Udi from before but Memi was news to me and he's a very nice guy. I think we're getting to that point where having a blogger dinner would not be a sad and…
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[Book] Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition
Ever since we got the book Writing Secure Code 2nd edition at DevDays, I've been reading about a chapter a day. I have to say that a subject that I thought was dull,boring and basically “un-learnable” suddenly takes new…
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More Lookup table techniques
Richard posts about a few different ways (and some of them are news to me) to avoid using a simple lookup table and relation in your DB for silly stuff like Gender(Male,female,unknown) or daysOfWeek. Really interesting.…
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Iterating over collections - As simple as possible, but no simpler.
Weekend was amazing. 'Nuff said. Now for something completely different. Julie asks why not allow VB.Net developers have an easier and shorter syntax to use when iterating over collections: For Each cust as Customer in…
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Weekend off
ok. I'll get back to blogging after this weekend. Tal's birthday is upon us and we are going for a weekend in the south of israel. Happy birthday honey. I love you.
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Mortal sin: Just "Doit"
You've been there before, right? a big ass method (200-600 lines ) with a mess of SQL, logic and “SELECT * from...” in it. And it's called... “ Doit ”. Yep. I swear. But then it got worse. A method just as big, looks…
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Mortal sin: A non-relational relational database.
[Update: I removed the reference to COBOL. It was taken the wrong way and did not add anything to the conversation. Sorry if I've hurt anyone. ] This sin is probably one of the most prevalent of the sins I've listed…
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Get your resource kit (and disregard the kit name)
The ASP.Net Resource kit is now available for download . Don't ask any questions, just download it. Oh, and if you haven't downloaded the VB.Net resource kit , you should. Really. Even if you only do C# . It contains…
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The .Net debugging experience - you can help make a difference
Now is your chance to tell the dude in charge of the .Net debugger user interface(like how the watch window works) everything that bugs you or is missing about the process of debugging your programs. Think you should be…
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Israeli .Net Bloggers
Wow. Wer'e starting to get some more Israeli bloggers in here. Here's my list so far (I've also put it up as part of my links in my blog page): Omri Gazitt (Out of country) Oleg Tkachenko Uri Gorobets Alex Hoffman (Out…
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Stuff to know about the Data Application Block
Version 3.0 has been out for a while . Version 3 of this block is out there, kicking some serious butt. This version has unit tests to go along with it and it fixes a bug that was found in version 2. Get version 3 from…
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VS.Net multi language bug - 2.5 years and still going strong?
This is indeed a very annoying bug , and arguably has high importance because being able to develop on multiple languages is one of VS.Net's most touted features. Annoyingly enough, this problem only happens when the…
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SQL relations considered harmful?
OK. So I'm no SQL server guru but I do consider myself to know *something* about it. Which is why it was really weird to read this post and realize that I have no idea what that guy was talking about. Domains? Not using…
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We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source
While I didn't take the time to go and download the leaked MSFT source code, it's enlightening to read this review about the quality of the source here. They review the code in depth for various scales, including…
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Community application blocks revisited - with a twist
A few days a go I had a very interesting chat with Ron “ build your own application blocks ” Jacobs (just kidding). The conversation was so interesting because Ron managed to explain to me something that was not obvious…