"Randomly" Losing Session State on IIS 6

In IIS 6/Windows 2003, you may notice that session or cached information sometimes “disappears”, seemingly at random. No, it’s not gremlins…it could very well be your Application Pool settings. If […]

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Written By Ben Strackany

The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing

This is a really good article on interviewing people. I’ve been developing for a long time, managing for quite a while, but only in the past few years have I […]

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Firefox Memory Leak

Ah, crazy Firefox. There’s apparently a known bug that causes a slow but sure memory leak with Firefox. The basic solution is: Type about:config in the address bar Right click […]

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Web Hosting Considerations for an Effective Site

I’ve been casually looking at various web hosting providers, trying to sort out my hosting options. Perhaps you have an idea for a web site, or a site that’s outgrown […]

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Monitor changed web pages easily

I wanted to mention that if there are web pages you want to monitor for changes, WebMon fits the bill very nicely. It can monitor pages as frequently as you’d […]

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Free CAPTCHA control for ASP.NET

Check out FormShield to generate CAPTCHA images in .NET. e.g. I was going to write a control myself, but I guess I don’t have to. 🙂

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Google and Orphaned URLs

I had a bunch of links at www.developmentnow.com/nntp/ that Google had indexed, but I wanted Google to instead use the new links at www.developmentnow.com/g/. I was planning on using a […]

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