Interactive ASP.NET

I am not a gamer! I would get killed playing anything modern! I was never very good at the games I did play (back in the 90's) like Marathon or StarCraft. I did like games before that but they were mostly DOS based games. I loved Cyberbox, a little game where you try to navigate your dot from one side of the screen to the other pushing blocks along

Have you ever needed to add a line to a config file like: < type ="Config.RoleService, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /> These fully qualified types are not easy to figure out. The syntax is a bit confusing and the PublicKeyToken is hard to get a look at. This has been an issue -- until

Naming conventions are like arm pits. Everyone has them and they all stink! Well, at least that's the perspective of pretty much every developer an DBA alike. I will present my own personal philosophy for naming conventions on databases and hopefully spawn some discussion in the process. Basic Principles Consistency As annoying as certain standards

These past two weeks have been very exciting for me. I have gotten to be involved in some R&D for one of the companies that I consult for. I LOVE R&D! There is always a better way to do things and poking your head out from the sand every once in a while can be very beneficial! Okay, so here is the story. You want to have auditing so you can

When I seem to have re-occurring themes happen naturally I find that those are good things to blog about. Recently I was speaking with my brother (who has incessant adware problems) about Internet Safety and Cyber Security. A week or two ago I had a stimulating conversation with my friend Anthony about security, and this morning on the Diane Rehm Show

Recently, some Linux developers have condemned the practice of shipping drivers without the source in an open petition . The reasoning for such a petition is that "any closed-source Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses and the greater Linux ecosystem

There are a few things that make me really angry with Internet companies. The first one was when Verisign took over control of the root domain servers and started serving ad's on any non-existent domain! The second was recently where a large ISP is selling peoples so-called non-personal information for targeting advertisers in an opt-out type program

For now on you may address me as my proper title: I wish the title was a little less blasphemous; therefore you may alternately call me 'King Nerd'. That would also match with my wife who is a "Slightly Dorky Nerd Queen". I also scored quite high on the version 1.0 test: Remember, that is 92 percentile! --Nathan Zaugg