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Oct 12
Kalculate = Fun + Math Game, Holding Charity Drive on October 27th
Kalculate Charity DriveWhen: Saturday October 27, 2012 midnight to midnight PDTRules: The creators of Kalculate will donate a dollar to charity for every registered user that plays a full online game--up to a maximum of $1400! All you have to do is play.About the GameKalculate is a you vs. the Internet style game for math lovers. The rules are simple: ......
Posted On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 2:55 AM For Fun
25
Mar 08
How many IP addresses does IPv6 support?
How many IP addresses does IPv6 support? Well, without knowing the exact implementation details, we can get a rough estimate based on the fact that it uses 128 bits. So 2 to the power of 128 ends up being 340,282,366,920,938,000,000... unique IP addresses. Well, we know that sounds like a lot, but this blurb from http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... ......
Posted On Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:17 PM For Fun , Networking
26
Feb 08
Black Hat DC 2008 Briefings
Last week I attended the Black Hat DC 2008 Briefings. The following is a list of the presentations I saw, the key concepts discussed as well as things I found interesting or didn’t know. Summary of Black Hat DC 2008 Briefings DAY 1 - Web App Track Preparing for the Cross Site Request Forgery Defense · A cross site request forgery (CSRF) can be used ......
Posted On Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:45 PM Security
04
Feb 08
ECMA C# and Common Language Infrastructure Standards
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/... (It has links to things such as the C# language specification and a reference guide to the CIL Instruction Set) ......
Posted On Monday, February 4, 2008 1:34 PM .NET , Programming
24
Jan 08
Dependency Injection with Spring.Net
Good article on dependency injection using Spring.Net: http://www.developer.com/net/csharp/article.php/10918_3722931_1.
Posted On Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:05 AM .NET , Architecture , Open-Source
12
Nov 07
Zero Byte Scripts Still Effective
Many antivirus programs are still susceptible to this evasion technique: Original post: http://blog.didierstevens.c... News article: http://www.vnunet.com/vnune... ......
Posted On Monday, November 12, 2007 8:21 AM Security
30
Oct 07
Coding Shortcuts in C# 3.0
Default get/set accessors: public class Person { public string Name { get; set; } public int Age { get; set; } } Property initialization: Person author = new Person { Name = "Jay Miller", Age = 40 }; From this article: http://www.codeguru.com/csh... ......
Posted On Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:24 AM .NET
06
Aug 07
Cryptographic Solutions for .NET Developers: Hashing and Encryption

Here is a pretty good introductory article on crypto in .NET: http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_security/encryption/article.php/c14033__1/.

 


Posted On Monday, August 6, 2007 5:28 AM .NET , Security
24
Jul 07
Useful Windows Utilities
I know that I'm going to be looking for this article later so I might as well share it here: http://computerworld.com/ac... It has some useful PDF utilities as well as others ......
Posted On Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:43 PM Tools
18
Jul 07
Goodies for Microsoft Office 2007
Here are a few goodies I came across for Office Word 2007... Want help getting started with Word 2007? Add the "Getting Started" ribbon tab inside of Word: http://blogs.msdn.com/micro... Having trouble with the new Word ribbon (menu) system? Use this interactive guide to help with the ......
Posted On Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:49 PM Tools
06
Jul 07
Open-source Distributed Pub/Sub Event System
This is a huge open-source contribution from Microsoft: http://www.codeplex.com/pub... The Distributed Pub/Sub Event System is a solution for cross-process and/or cross-server scenarios where a large amount of event handshaking is required and low latency is important. Basically, this architecture was designed for speed. Even if you can't think of ......
Posted On Friday, July 6, 2007 10:46 AM .NET , C/C++ , Architecture , Open-Source
29
Jun 07
Performance Matters
A few good write-ups on performance: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity... http://www.panopticoncentra... ......
Posted On Friday, June 29, 2007 7:38 PM Design , Programming , Performance
22
Jun 07
Five Ideas That Will Reinvent Modern Computing
This article was inspiring to read. Well, at least 4 out of the 5 ideas sound really cool to me. I don't completely see the benefits of trying to model the human brain with a computer seeing as we don't even understand how it works yet: http://www.pcmag.com/articl... ......
Posted On Friday, June 22, 2007 6:02 PM Miscellaneous , For Fun
12
Jun 07
WCF NetTcpBinding Lessons Learned
I just got done with a long afternoon of implementing a Windows Service to self-host my WCF service. It was a bit trickier than I thought it would be so if I can save you the headache I'll be happy. A good place to start is by reading these two MSDN articles: http://msdn.microsoft.com/m... http://msdn.microsoft.com/m... ......
Posted On Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:43 PM .NET , Programming , Security , Setup & Deployment
07
Jun 07
Traditional & Agile Software Development Methodologies
Examples of Traditional Software Development Methodologies Waterfall http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... http://www.cs.umd.edu/class... Spiral http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... http://www.sce.carleton.ca/... Rational Unified Process (RUP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... ......
Posted On Thursday, June 7, 2007 6:38 PM Methodology
.NET Assemblies Lessons Learned
A few things I learned today while instrumenting some binaries in preparation for performance profiling: Resigning a .NET assembly is as simple as opening a VS command prompt and entering: sn –R MyAssembly.dll MyApplicationKey.snk Browsing the GAC through Windows Explorer -- open a command prompt and enter: SUBST L: C:\winnt\assembly Now you can browser ......
Posted On Thursday, June 7, 2007 3:58 PM .NET , Visual Studio , Tools
06
Jun 07
Remote File Access with WebDAV & IIS

WebDAV & IIS--A remote file access solution to consider: http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3680911.


Posted On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 9:34 PM Windows , Networking
29
May 07
Kerberos Authentication Protocol
I was curious to understand Kerberos on a much deeper level so I decided to gather some resources in order to learn what was really going on under the hood: Kerberos Wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... Kerberos Explained (Windows Server 2000) http://www.microsoft.com/te... ......
Posted On Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:56 PM Windows , Security
14
May 07
Open-source Web service Testing Tools

This article reviews three open-source web service testing tools that might be useful if you don't already have one: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/11/19TCwebservicetest_1.html.


Posted On Monday, May 14, 2007 6:03 PM Tools , Testing , Open-Source
17
Apr 07
Message Queues in .NET
A nice little article on leveraging MSMQ in .NET: http://www.builderau.com.au... ......
Posted On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:45 PM .NET , Programming , Architecture
10
Apr 07
Web Servers
Here is a nice overview of the web server usage statistics from the April 2007 Netcraft survey: http://www.serverwatch.com/... Server No. ofSites Market Share No. of SitesWith .com domains Apache 66,899,485 58.86% 36,803,903 Microsoft-IIS 35,377,426 31.13% 22,721,673 Unknown 2,761,059 2.43% 2,042,800 Sun-ONE-Web-Server 1,663,476 ......
Posted On Tuesday, April 10, 2007 12:51 PM Products
05
Apr 07
IT Architect Skills Library
A new library website devoted to IT architects: http://www.iasahome.org/web/home/skillset.
Posted On Thursday, April 5, 2007 12:14 PM Developer Community , Architecture
04
Apr 07
SQL Server Whitepapers
A colleague of mine found this great resource of SQL Server whitepapers: http://www.sqlskills.com/whitepapers.asp.
Posted On Wednesday, April 4, 2007 1:04 PM Training , SQL , Database
19
Mar 07
Scalable Apps with Asynchronous Programming in ASP.NET
If asynchronous programming in ASP.NET is something you haven't been doing, then you'll want to check this article out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/m... Instead of spending more $ on new servers or hardware you might be able to utilize async Pages, Handlers, and Modules to lessen the amount of threads waiting to execute ......
Posted On Monday, March 19, 2007 12:56 AM .NET , Design , Programming
Custom Iterators, Predicates, and Generic Methods in .NET
This article proposes some great ways of making common sequences of operations on lists more reusable in .NET: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/... It reminds me of some of the built-in set operations that are available in the SmallTalk programming language ......
Posted On Monday, March 19, 2007 12:28 AM .NET , Design , Programming
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