Mark Newton
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 […]
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 […]
I have an announcement… the Internet is broken! Well not quite but I thought it might make you read further! What I am talking about is the frustrating number of broken links out there pointing to sites like knowledge bases. Take the scenario where you are trying to find the answer to a particular problem, […]
Going back to our imaginary web site, one job that often needs to be done with a database driven web site is the building of some administration pages for inputting of data via a web page . This can be a tedious job but it is obviously very important to get it right and to […]
Many of the other improvements have been enhancements to the .NET framework which is now at version 4. Obviously there is no room to describe them all here but a few that caught my attention were URL Routing, Permanent Redirect and Autostart. URL Routing enables you to tidy up your URLs to ones that are […]
It’s a busy time at the moment with several major projects on the go as well as amendments to existing sites, that and the inevitable cruises that must be attended in the Mustang during the summer all means that the pressure has been on. One new site that we are building looks like it could […]
Those of you who have to manage web sites are probably aware of the increase in the number of attacks of the type called ‘Cross – Site – Scripting’ ( XSS). So many high profile sites and commercial products have been found to be vulnerable to such attacks. See http://www.xssed.com if you don’t want to […]