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Just one of those great tools every develop should know about... Last week I had to release a new version of an application. The database had changed quite a bit, so I looked around for a tool to script the changes. In the old days (at LogicaCMG) we used...
A colleague of mine found a real gem for encrypting sensitive data! TrueCrypt is an open source initiative. Truecrypt encrypts with 256 bits and more... Truecrypt lets you choose encryption between AES, BlowFish, TwoFish, Serpent and Tripple DES. You...
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I stumbled across this site: http://www.albahari.com/threading/ It offers a nice free e-book on threading in C#. I haven't had time to read it but it looks quite good. Greetz, Ernst
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If you're interested in anything .NET-ish (or anything free ), then you might wanna download this free Visual Basic 2005 book .
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A new colleague of mine, Raynni Jourdain (LogicaCMG, Arnhem), pointed me towards this article about Java vs. .NET . In short, it says .NET for projects that have ease-of-use, need quick time to market and a lifespan of 2-5 years and Java for more complex...
How many accounts do you have? Hotmail account Gmail account Business email account Private email account etc. And you've also got some accounts for websites and on-line forums: Codeproject Your own website (maintanance) Ebay etc. So, do you use the same...
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I recently noticed this site about firewalls and getting around them. Pretty nifty if you want to reach you PC at home. Or maybe you can use it as learning material about protocols... :)
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We've had a Javascript error on our forum pages for www.elsevier.nl for quite some time. So, they asked me to look into it. The initial Javascript (JS) error said: line3, position 1. But looking in the source (with IE), it show code at that position that...
Today, most people surfing the net visit websites, not by directly using the URL, but via Google hits. That's why SEO, Search Engine Optimization (or Google Optimization) is hot... So, for sites like www.zibb.nl and www.elsevier.nl (dutch news sites)...
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Martin Fowler recently mentioned a new webcommunity called Patternshare . “Microsoft have released a new community resource called PatternShare . The idea is to bring together pattern summaries from many pattern authors and provide a platform for...
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Googling for some info I hit this site with all kinds of free chapters, from elementary C# to the lesser known GraphicsPaths. All samples so free for download. As we say in Dutch: “us bin zuunig“ (“we're stingy“).
On my current project I needed to extract info from the http header, in this case send by a custom IE toolbar. However, not all info in the header is available through the request.servervariables. So how do you get to see what certain pages and toolbars...
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