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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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Written by Ben Strackany -- January 21, 2005
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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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Written by Ben Strackany -- January 19, 2005
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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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Written by Ben Strackany -- January 11, 2005
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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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Written by Ben Strackany -- January 11, 2005
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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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Written by Ben Strackany -- January 10, 2005
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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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Written by Ben Strackany -- January 10, 2005
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310 Redirect for Search Engines and Changed URLs

Say you have some pages indexed in search engines, but you want to change the URL of those pages. What you should not do: Do NOT delete the old pages […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- January 8, 2005