Mark Newton
The big news is that IE7 has rolled out, and of course Microsoft does not recommend you try to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine although this is possible by going through some hoops, made all the more easier by Jon Galloway who has written an IE7 installer that will allow this (http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/07/26/IE7-Standalone-_2800_Updated-for-IE7-Beta-3_2900_.aspx) […]
Whilst we are on the subject of web server logs and activity, there is one group of products that is causing some problems with excess bandwidth usage as well as making a web site appear much busier that it actually is. We have all see adverts for ‘speed up your browsing’ products. These often work […]
When I talk of a future browser for web applications, I would like to make a plea to the various browser developers. How about having a basic browser engine, that is open source and free to use that is fully standards compliant? Here I am talking just about the rendering engine, the bit between the […]
Find out about a users browser and O/S In a previous article I gave a URL of a web site that revealed a users browser version to help with debugging a web site. A reader, Richard Paul of primarysite.net sent a link to a similar web site but one that returns much more information about […]
Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, Amazon EC2 and Vmware vCloud are all ‘Cloud Computing’ systems. There are others of course but these three are probably the largest players in the field. So what is ‘Cloud Computing’? The idea is that instead of having your own web / application server with all the problems and cost […]
I’m often asked by readers which is the best way to develop asp .net applications, should one use the traditional Web Forms method or the newer MVC (Model View Controller)? The first thing to remember here is that they are not mutually exclusive nor is one going to be better supported in the future by […]
In a previous article I wrote about breaking up with your ISP and the least painful way to achieve such a move. This got me thinking about some of the other changes you might need to make in the near future. Some of these choices will be of your own making but as we shall […]
The other announcement is that the source code of ASP.NET Web API and ASP .NET Web Pages ( Razor ) has been released to Open source, these join ASP .NET MVC which now will ship with jQuery, Modernizer, NuGet, Knockout and JSON libraries from the Open Source family. Not only is the code being released, […]
The very first article I wrote for PcPro way back was a joint piece with Jon Honeyball about Microsoft Index server. This was a service that would run in the background and index all the files in selected folders. This index could then be queried via a web based language; I wrote a commercial web […]
Whilst at the Bridge Championships I get some spare time in between meetings and as I don’t play Bridge so I use the time to try out some new ideas. One such idea came from a client who would like to offer extended services on their website to users who registered with them. Now the […]