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DevelopmentNow — Developer Deal of the Day

Starting a new feature here on DevelopmentNow: the developer deal of the day! There are a few different “hot deals” web sites I like to frequent, but I usually have […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- December 9, 2004
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Funny Quotes?

I’ve been toying with an office-themed coffee book with quotes, anecdotes, and photographs. I don’t have much content, but I wanted to blog out some of my favorite quotes so […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- December 6, 2004
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Impersonation in ASP.NET: System.UnauthorizedAccessException, "ASP.NET is not authorized to access the requested resource", and you

Assume your ASP or ASP.NET page needs to access a network share or some other domain resource, but you need to run that page under a different account other than […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- December 1, 2004
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Subversion SCM

In addition to using Visual Source Safe for source control, you can also look into using CVS or Subversion. From what I hear, Subversion is easier to run on Windows […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- November 30, 2004
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Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1

If you’re developing in ASP.NET with version 1.1 of the .NET framework, you should install IIS before installing .NET v1.1. Otherwise you may get the below error when trying to […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- November 26, 2004
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Jotspot, Email, Wikis, and General Wiki Usability Issues

So I was reading through Korby Parnell’s blog (VSS gurumon) and I noticed he mentioned a new Wiki that I hadn’t seen before…Jotspot. From the comparison page it looks very […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- November 22, 2004
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Wiki Wiki

Yesterday we set up a wiki (FlexWiki specifically) in order to consolidate all the information floating around. We can store information for easy access & easy modification — think of […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- November 18, 2004