I was contacted by a very polite employee from Packt Publishing who asked me if I’d be willing to review one of their brand new ASP.NET books, ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials. I’m not going to add any referral links for this product as it would be a conflict of interest; the only compensation I [...]
On Friday night I decided to sit down and start work on a new project that I had been mulling over for a couple of days, but this time I was going to build the new service from the top-down, rather than from the bottom-up.
I’d start by building the end user experience first then shape [...]
It’s about time for an update on Facebook Application with ASP.NET, using Nikhil Kothari’s Facebook API wrapper for ASP.NET, Facebook.NET. If you want to read about why I’m using Facebook.NET instead of the Facebook Control Toolkit then click here.
I’ve spent a lot of time developing my Facebook application this weekend and I have a few [...]
10 Hot ASP.NET Tips and Tricks for the week of 9/28/2007. Includes boosting visual studio 2005 for enhanced productivity, server side redirects into a new window, master page hacks, speeding up your ASP.NET applications by stripping out extra HTTP handlers, page modules, and partial methods. Click here to check out last week’s 10 Hot [...]
I received an email early this morning from an AjaxNinja reader asking for advice:
I graduated this year with my MBA. I have an idea for a start-up but most of my background is in business. I’m currently in the process of building a presentation that I will send to CRV-quickstart program, and the FbFund [...]
My post from the previous week on why .NET is getting its ass kicked in social media precipitated a massive storm of comments and debate.
Some of the issues brought up during that discussion, namely that the licensing costs of .NET-technologies serve as a major barrier to wide-scale adoption of .NET for high tech start ups, [...]
Maybe I’m just not looking hard enough, but does it seem like .NET is getting blown out by PHP, JAVA, and even Ruby in terms of presence in social media outlets?
I started this blog partially to evangelize the .NET platform because I think it’s simply more complete and robust than mere scripting languages like PHP, [...]
Every week or two I am going to try to throw together a feature list of 10 ASP.NET articles that I’ve found interesting or have been referred to by my readers, so I’ll start with 10 hot ASP.NET tips for today, 9/17/2007.
Try… Catch… Now What – Summarizes how a lot of try catch blocks are [...]
Continuing on yesterday’s theme of ironic applications of ASP.NET (I wrote about the fact that PHP runs twice as fast under .NET compilation than under Zend interpretation), today I came across an article on Digg illustrating an ASP.NET internal server error on Apple’s website.
Does this mean that Apple endorses the use of ASP.NET frameworks over [...]
Read the title one more time. Yeah, I said it. PHP, one of the most popular web development languages, runs faster when it’s executed as compiled .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) using Phalanger 2.0 than it does running natively under the Zend interpreter.
What the hell is Phalanger?
Credits to Das Tierlexikon (The Animal Encyclopedia)
The animal in [...]