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Using FxCop with ASP.NET 2.0
The build process in ASP.NET 2.0 is very different than in ASP.NET 1.x, because it does not produce a dll file.
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Date: 2006-12-28

MySQL with WAS CE
Search term: "mysql WASCE"
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Date: 2006-12-28

Automation With Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0
Sales and marketing personnel are best employed in sales and marketing rather than carrying out repetitive administrative tasks.
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Date: 2006-12-28

ASP.NET: machineKey Generator
Whenever you make use of ViewState, Session, Forms authentication, or other encrypted and/or secured values, ASP.NET uses a set of keys to do the encryption and decryption.
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Date: 2006-12-28

ERP - A Rising Need of Enterprises
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a strategic tool helping an organization to gain and edge over its competitors by helping in successfully integrating its key business operations, synchronizing, planning and optimizing the resources available in the existing extremely competitive environment..
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Date: 2006-12-28

How Interim Management Has Evolved
During the nineties, between downsizing and the dot.com era, corporate men and women were becoming endangered species.
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Date: 2006-12-27

Spry: Custom Columns
A few days ago I posted a link to a few new Spry demos including one that shows how to build custom columns in Spry.
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Date: 2006-12-27

How Many Rows of Data to Use with Spry
Bob sent in an interesting email to me:
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Date: 2006-12-27

Protecting Your Wireless Router
A wireless router is a great idea for networking computers that are not right next to each other.
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Date: 2006-12-27

Making Choices for Web Developer Sanity
Nowadays, there's too much information for a web developer to handle: Web 2.0, AJAX, JavaScript libraries, Ruby on Rails, ASP.Net Atlas/AJAX, CSS, DWR...and the list goes on.
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Date: 2006-12-27

GoboLinux - A Breath of Fresh Air?
My very first reaction to GoboLinux was negative. The underlying idea of taming the Unix/Linux file system hierarchy with symbolic links isn't new: heck, SCO did that way back with their 3.2v4.0 release, and for exactly the same reasons (see the Software Storage Objects- SSO section at this link).
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Date: 2006-12-27

Employee Motivation: Key To Company Success
Picture this: You're the owner of a seat manufacturing company that produces seating for wheelchairs, auditoriums, and cars.
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Date: 2006-12-22

The Oddness (and Evenness) of Spry 1.4
Ok, I'm not sure if "evenness" is really a word, but if Steve Colbert can make stuff up - so can I. Before Spry 1.4, Spry supported a simple way to apply different CSS styles to datasets rows to support even/odd colors.
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Date: 2006-12-21

XML Country List File
Today, I had to bind a list of countries to a drop down list in ASP.NET 2.0. I wanted to use an XML file to store the countries. There are more than 200 so there was not way I was going to hard code them in the HTML.
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Date: 2006-12-20

Are You Inventory Rich and Cash Poor?
A contract manufacturer turns inventory 3.6 times. A retailer turns inventory 4.1 times. A wholesaler turns inventory 4.4 times.
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Date: 2006-12-20

Compact an Access Database from .NET
Over time, a database becomes fragmented when it is used. This makes it grow in size and perform badly. Not the two qualities you want for your mission-critical data.
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Date: 2006-12-20

CRM Software That Works The Way You Do
How often have you had to change the way you work to fit in with the latest software needs?
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Date: 2006-12-20

Maintenance Tools for Mac OS X
There are a number of Mac OS maintenance applications that promise to help you with various tasks. We'll take a quick look at a few of them here.
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Date: 2006-12-20

IT and Help Desk Customer Satisfaction Surveys Drive Performance
IT and help desk customer satisfaction surveys provide information and insight for achieving breakthrough increases in IT and corporate effectiveness.
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Date: 2006-12-20

Using Content to Drive Productivity and Make Sales
Most organizations do not properly understand or manage content. They fail to realize that quality content is now key to productivity, cost effectiveness, sales, and customer satisfaction.
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Date: 2006-12-19

ASP.NET: Maintain Scroll Position After Postbacks
To maintain the scroll position after postbacks is important for larger web pages in order to let the user know exactly what is going on.
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Date: 2006-12-19

Making Career Resolutions
If your career is losing direction, it's time to make not only personal resolutions, but some professional ones too.
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Date: 2006-12-19

Email Marketing - HTML Vs. Plain Text
After you have set up your opt in list and started collecting leads you need to decide whether to use HTML or plain text for your follow up and broadcast messages.
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Date: 2006-12-19

Adobe's Apollo - the Next Killer App?
Today, Apollo caught my undivided attention when I saw the post from a Rich Inter Application Mountaineer, Ryan Stewart.
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Date: 2006-12-19

SQL Server Triggers
Triggers are stored procedures which are fired when data is modified in an underlying table.
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Date: 2006-12-19

More Open Source Funding - What Does it Mean?
Matthew Aslett, Matt Asay & Alex Fletcher are all writing about the increased funding that open source companies have received in 2006. Good news indeed. (Picture from robinicus919)
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Date: 2006-12-19

Stock Image Licensing Guide
So you've landed the client and their branding project. Congratulations! Now you've got to get down to the business of creating their marketing collateral-everything from the logo on the letterhead to the tri-fold brochure and interactive web site.
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Date: 2006-12-19

Asset Allocation and Your Investment Plan
Many of the wealthiest people in the world owe their fortunes to different types of residual income - from stocks and bonds to investment trusts, real estate, commodities and more.
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Date: 2006-12-19

Where Is HDS In The CAS Space?
I was chatting with fellow ESG'er and avid HDS proponent Tony Asaro about an unrelated matter - how HDS has really been one of the few to take advantage of the V word - they use it as a differentiator on their big Tagma USP gear and it's getting them deals.
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Date: 2006-12-19

Session Metrics w/ Application.cfc
A few months ago I blogged (How ColdFusion can save your business) about how you can use the onSessionEnd feature of Application.cfc to track the success of your ecommerce site.
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Date: 2006-12-19

Technology - Does it Make Managers Lazy?
Technology does not replace the need for good management. Without such management, technology can create more problems than it solves.
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Date: 2006-12-18

Spry 1.4 Released!
The site still says 1.3, but you can now download Spry 1.4.
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Date: 2006-12-18

Off Site Data Storage
Why in this day and age of enormous hard drives and portable storage drives that can be carried in your pocket without even realizing it's there would anyone want to trust an off site data storage site?
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Date: 2006-12-18

Handling Missing Data
I have an old Perl project that goes out to a Government web site, ftp's some files, massages them in various ways, and spits out some output. Over time, the project grew, and now does more than it used to.
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Date: 2006-12-18

Adobe's Apollo to Ease Desktop Development?
In early 2005, when Adobe announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia, creative professionals released a collective gasp. Many worried about a creative software monopoly, others pondered the fate of competing applications (GoLive versus Dreamweaver, Freehand versus Illustrator, etc), and some dreamed of what offspring may come of this union.
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Date: 2006-12-15

Taking The Spam Fight To The Gateway
The barbarians are at the gate, and only need a brief window of opportunity to invade systems, capture credentials, and report back to their masters to wreak havoc across a swath of userland.
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Date: 2006-12-15

Hardware Load Balancing Lightens Server Load
Load balancing is the even distribution of computer processing and communication activities so that a server is not overwhelmed. Load balancing is especially important for networks where it is difficult to predict the number of requests that will be issued to a server.
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Date: 2006-12-14

Validating Strong Passwords in C# and ASP.NET
It's always a good idea to have a password policy when creating new applications. A password policy can vary from project to project, but the important part is just to have one to begin with.
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Date: 2006-12-14

Review: Sage And Microsoft Business Accounting Software
Accounting is one of the most vital processes in any business. To say the least, it is even more important than manufacturing goods and selling them.
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Date: 2006-12-14

ASP.NET: A simple factory using Generics
For about a week ago one of my readers asked me to simplify a piece of his code.
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Date: 2006-12-14

Creating Rich Content
We have all heard the term content-rich, but what does content rich really mean?
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Date: 2006-12-14

The Training and Certification Guarantees
Will training in a good training institution get me IT certified? All I want is a school that will give me certification guarantees.
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Date: 2006-12-14

Where has the Human in HR Gone?
Human Resource Management as a profession is in danger of becoming not just an irrelevance to day-to-day line managers but a break on the productivity and profitability of organisations.
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Date: 2006-12-13

Five Successful CRM Barriers to Avoid
Gilda Radner used to say, "It's always something." That's true in life and in business - with the realm of CRM being no exception.
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Date: 2006-12-13

ASP.NET 2.0: Asynchronous Pages
In ASP.NET 2.0 it is now possible to create asynchronous pages in a very simple and easy way.
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Date: 2006-12-12

Localized Websites and the html Tag
For a website that supports multiple languages, it is important to tell the client what the selected language is.
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Date: 2006-12-12

eCommerce Site Design: What do you Really Think?
Site design is a primary determinant in online shopping.
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Date: 2006-12-12

The Highest Priority in Enterprise IT
What is the highest priority in enterprise IT?
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Date: 2006-12-12

Java Not True Test of Open Source Innovation
My thesis advisor keeps reminding me to frame the question correctly, otherwise the experimental results will be meaningless.
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Date: 2006-12-12

SEO-Friendly Ecommerce
One of the major drawbacks when taking the dynamic approach to web development is the resulting product not being optimized for the search engines. A number of issues contribute to this characteristic and most are them are correctable, but doing so is considered an advanced level of web design.
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Date: 2006-12-12

Getting More Subscribers To Your Ezine
An ezine, or electronic newsletter, is an effective way to get your message across to your prospects and clients.
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Date: 2006-12-11

Using Microsoft CRM to Manage Client Projects
As a Microsoft partner, we help our clients implement the solutions they purchase. One challenge we have is how to track the project tasks so that we can:
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Date: 2006-12-11

Value Chain Approach to IT
One of the major sections in my book is the development of a unified process framework.
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Date: 2006-12-11

If/else-statement Performance Optimization
Have you ever considered how well a regular if/else-statement performs? I haven't, but after watching this Channel9 video I wanted to test it.
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Date: 2006-12-11

Web Accessibility from Within
Accessibility is an abstract concept for the average web designer/developer, because he or she has never needed accessible web pages.
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Date: 2006-12-11

The Influence of Unix on NT
For several years now I've been looking for something Bill Gates said. Unfortunately I had misremembered the actual words, and every time I found someone who thought they remembered it, they had the wrong words too and I'd come up dry yet again.
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Date: 2006-12-11

GZip vs. Deflate - Compression and Performance
After I wrote about a HTTP compression module in ASP.NET 2.0 one of my colleagues pointed out that the Deflate compression is faster than GZip.
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Date: 2006-12-08

Intelligent Logistics or Just Good Old Common Sense?
What does the word 'Intelligent' suggest when used in conjunction with Logistics? It connotes "smart," foresight-driven, sensory, responsive, and adaptive Logistics.
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Date: 2006-12-08

Building Server Side AJAX Suggestions with script.aculo.us
I'm a big fan of the script.aculo.us javascript library.
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Date: 2006-12-08

ASP.NET: Remove HTML Comments at Runtime
I've been playing a bit with regular expressions lately and have to find some useful tasks in order to practice the skill.
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Date: 2006-12-07

Psychology Of The Sales Professional
One's attitude has a lot more to do with the level of her/his success than one's aptitude, ability, IQ, education or other factors do.
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Date: 2006-12-07

App_Code: Why it's Better
I remember when ASP.NET 2.0 beta 1 was released about 2 years ago and I eagerly tried it out.
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Date: 2006-12-07

WAS CE vs. Apache Geronimo
Based on the number of hits this blog is getting with the search term "Geronimo vs. WAS CE", it appears that there is some confusion about the similarities and differences between Apache Geronimo and IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE).
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Date: 2006-12-06

Helms on ColdFusion
Fusion Authority has published an interesting editorial by Hal Helms, scheduled for inclusion in FAQU 3.
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Date: 2006-12-06

AutomatingTasks in Microsoft CRM Using Workflow
Are you sick of entering data into Microsoft CRM manually? How about dealing with inconsistent data that makes reporting difficult and time-consuming?
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Date: 2006-12-06

Embedding & Controlling Flash Video With Actionscript
Of late, there's no questioning the ubiquity of flash video on the web: Google, Yahoo, YouTube, etc..
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Date: 2006-12-06

SQL Server 2000 Data Types
SQL Server requires that each variable and column in a table should be defined with respect to the type of data it will store.
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Date: 2006-12-05

Computer Security Still Damaged by Social Engineering
Interesting article out of CIO magazine about Vista, and that while it is a highly secure operating system, with some neat things it can do, it still is not invulnerable to those programs that require social engineering to get the user to do something.
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Date: 2006-12-05

Is Your Email Marketing Software Hurting Your Business?
Ten years ago I started my first online business venture out of the basement office of my home. I put together a Web site selling scrapbook products on my wife's suggestion that scrapbooking was emerging as a hot niche in the crafting industry.
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Date: 2006-12-05

Oracle Responds To Information Security Critics
Oracle the Database Company is taking time out on its corporate blog to address a number of critics on the security of Oracle Databases.
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Date: 2006-12-04

Where You Put Your CFERROR Tag Matters
Chalk this up to the "I can't believe you never saw this before" file.
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Date: 2006-12-04

The Evil Packet Sniffer
A "Packet Sniffer" is a utility that sniffs without modifying the network's packets in any way.
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Date: 2006-12-04

Choosing a Framework for Web Development
I recently had the opportunity to develop a small online booking system. This time around I was determined to make use of some development framework.
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Date: 2006-12-04

Tips for Writing a Compelling Resume
Resumes have come a long way since they were just typed pages that chronologically listed employment histories, job duties, and educational qualifications. Hiring managers are inundated with hundreds of Resumes that still follow "old school".
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Date: 2006-12-04

Why Intranet Search Fails
Intranet search performs miserably because most organizations do not properly manage their content.
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Date: 2006-12-04

Getting Started In The Forex Market
The Forex market is known to be a very lucrative market, with trillions of dollars exchanged daily.
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Date: 2006-12-04

Mysterious Lockups
Of all computer problems, the unresponsive hang is the most annoying and most difficult to trace. There's no crash, no panic: everything just stops dead.
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Date: 2006-12-04

ASP.NET: Remove HTML Tags From a String
A lot of websites allow users to input text and submit it to the site.
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Date: 2006-12-01

Creating a CRM Data Capture Procedure Checklist
Fortunately one of the most common reasons cited for the high failure rate of CRM systems - poor data quality - is also one of the easiest to avoid.
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Date: 2006-12-01