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I've recently been getting to grips with Digital Ocean's VPS offering; what DO lovingly refer to as "droplets".

Each of the techniques described can be used for XSS filter evasion, which was my original intention when developing them.

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees.

In the 220 milliseconds that flew by, a lot of interesting stuff happened to make Firefox change the address bar color and put a lock in the lower right corner.

Leaflet is a modern open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.

For a detailed explanation, visit the Visual Representation of SQL Joins - CodeProject.

I came across two great tools for creating UML diagrams.

Embrace simplicity in your engineering.

Request/Acknowledge is a service design pattern wherein clients receive an acknowledgement as an immediate response while the original request is processed in the background.

The mongo geospatial repository will be replacing several tables in the legacy mySQL system — as you may know, mongodb comes with full geospatial support so executing queries against a collection (table) built in this manner is shocking in terms of it’s r…

I recently had a problem with a website built on Twitter Bootstrap.

Using the word “click” on your links takes the user’s attention away from your interface and onto their mouse.

In .Net 3.5 an entirely new date/time field was added called DateTimeOffset.

A few times after tweeting about Noda Time, people have asked why they should use Noda Time - they believe that the .NET date and time support is already good enough.

I’m writing about this topic because I recently saw some guys using my code in their projects without keeping the copyright notice (I really don’t want to blame anybody in this article).

This guide will teach you how to properly contribute to open source projects on GitHub.

You are a web programmer.

They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Why Rewriting Code from Scratch is a Mistake Rewriting co…

Swagger is a specification and complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services.

Of course, this still doesn’t answer questions about how far the search radius extends around the supplied point, or whether searching for “Bar” would bring up different results than “Pub”…. http://alastaira.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/the-bing-maps-soap-sea…

I came across a nice little problem today.

A modern fresh alternative to WCF.

Depending on the company you work in, you either have a locked down automated process for deployments or some dude is deploying from his local machine using drag and drop into an FTP client.

Update: The answer I made on this topic back for VS2010, has continued through the subsequent versions 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and now 2022.

We have recently upgraded an ASP.NET web application from .NET 2.0 to .NET 4.0.

Visual Studio 2010 has a very cool Database Project type, which is not supported by all Visual Studio editions, but it is certainly included in Ultimate and Premium.

I came across the following error today in a WCF JSON web service: SerializationException: DateTime values that are greater than DateTime.MaxValue or smaller than DateTime.MinValue when converted to UTC cannot be serialized to JSON.

If you are offering HTTPS, then any content you load from external sources also needs to be loaded over HTTPS as well, otherwise you’ll receive errors such as “Only secure content is displayed” and that external CSS, image or JavaScript file will be block…

I was just reading today about yet another site that stored their user’s passwords in plain text.

As a senior developer I get asked sometimes if constant change of technology is making me, well, obsolete.

Cryptography is a fascinating component of computer systems.

How to use a ColorMatrix to transform the non-transparent pixels of a PNG image on the fly using ASP.NET MVC2.

How to use the message inspector and custom behaviors to override the contents of a SOAP message before it is sent, or before it is received, so we can implement the unsupported Password Digest security scheme under WCF.

This might seem obvious but it had me stumped for a while.

Sometimes you just need a really simple authentication method in your ASP.NET MVC applications.

This evening I started playing around with RPX, the OpenID consolidator from JanRain.

If a user clicks on a form submit button and the page response is slow, the user may often re-click that button.

Introduction With the advent of the camera appearing on mobile (cellular) phones, a whole new world has now appeared.

I have been asked today by a client "why C# over VB.NET".

A couple of weeks ago I talked about my new Nokia 7250i and its ability to send MMS via email.

Automating PowerPoint is not pretty, nor is it clever!

I've just created this new blog based on code provided by Johan Danforth, see http://www.codeproject.com/soap/weblog.asp for more details.

We're excited to announce the release of AstroPaper v3, packed with new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to elevate your web development experience.

Updating the dependencies of a project can be tedious.

This article is from TailwindLabs.

This article is originally from my blog post.

Users cannot see this post because it is in draft.

This article is originally from my blog post.

Hosting a thin static blog on a platform like GitHub Pages has numerous advantages, but also takes away some interactivity.

AstroPaper is a highly customizable Astro blog theme.