My Space In The Net

Carl and Richard welcome Stephen Forte, Kent Alstad, Rob Howard, and Steve Smith for a lively discussion around ASP.NET Scalability issues.

• Stephen Forte is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a Manhattan (USA) based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms…
• Kent Alstad is principle or contributing author on all of Strangeloop’s pending patents. Before helping create Strangeloop, he served as CTO at IronPoint Technology…
• Rob Howard - prior to founding telligentsystems Rob was employed by the Microsoft Corporation where he was a member of the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 team…
• Steven Smith is president of AspAlliance.com and AspAdvice.com….

BananaScreen connects to your web-cam and then detects your face… when you’re gone from the computer, the screen will be locked, and when you (and only you!) return, it will unlock without you having to enter a password!

MonoDevelop 0.14 has been released. Major new features:

• Improved Toolbox and Properties pad
• Subversion add-in
• Refactory operations
• New Open Solution File Dialog
• Class and member selectors
• Improved Smart Indenting for C#
• Project export/conversion
• New packaging features
• Desktop Integration
• Improved New Project Dialog
• Navigation toolbar
• New features in the GTK# designer

Top MSDN magazine articles:

• Mobility: Make Your WPF Apps Power-Aware
Andre Michaud

• Share Code: Write Code Once For Both Mobile And Desktop Apps
Daniel Moth

• NTFS: Enhance Your Apps With File System Transactions
Jason Olson

• Security: Applying Cryptography Using The CNG API In Windows Vista
Kenny Kerr

• Speak Up: Support Dictation With Text Services Framework
Eric Brown
Download:

MSDNMagazine2007_07.chm (2,029 KB)

MSDN Magazine code download

Brian Kuhn was inspired by Carl’s pwopcatcher project to develop this .NET framework for syndication. The Argotic framework makes reading and writing syndication data sources in common formats such as RSS, Atom, OPML, RSD, etc. very easy while still remaining powerful enough to handle the myriad of syndication extensions commonly in use today

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 Argotic Syndication Framework

MyIPNeighbors.com is a handy tool to look-up the sites which are hosted on a specific server. For instance, you enter google.com and you receive maps.google.nl, video.google.ca, ditu.google.com and many more*. Enter blog.outer-court.com, and you’ll see e.g. authorama.com, howlinkable.com or diggsoundboard.com, all thanks to a reverse IP domain check, as the site explains. (And if you happen to detect that your server is crammed with questionable content – like hundreds of SEO spam domains – you might want to look for another host…)