May 2005 - Posts

• House Move

  Tomorrow we're moving home, so I've reduced my IT setup to what I consider a "Minimal" setup. It's scary just how much gear is needed! What with DMZ's and NAS devices increasingly common, a home IT system can be pretty extensive. Share this post: email Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:01 PM by rbirkby | 0 Comments

• Improved ASP.NET Development Helper

  The Firefox Development Helper has been improved with a raw ViewState viewer. It's going to be difficult to recreate the fulll ViewState decoder in the IE version because Nikhil used .Net to write the ViewState viewer and thus gets the abilities of the Read More... Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 8:47 AM by rbirkby | 0 Comments

• ASP.NET Development Helper

  Nikhil Kothari , the author of many of the Microsoft ASP.Net controls, has written an extension for Internet Explorer to detect when the ASP.Net page is running in Debug mode or in Trace mode and alerts the developer by showing information in the IE sidebar. Read More... Posted Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:19 PM by rbirkby | 11 Comments

• Making Wrong Code Error on Compile

  Joel Spolsky has written an article called Making Wrong Code Look Wrong where he posits the claim that Hungarian notation (more precisely, Apps Hungarian) is still useful in modern day programming. Joel is wrong. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 5:41 PM by rbirkby | 2 Comments Filed under: C#