Rob Janssen

What not to do in ASP.NET, and what to do instead

This topic describes several common mistakes people make within ASP.NET web projects. It provides recommendations for what you should do to avoid these common mistakes. It is based on a presentation by Damian Edwards at Norwegian Developers Conference.

Detecting program-tampering in the cloud

For small and midsize organizations, the outsourcing of demanding computational tasks to the cloud — huge banks of computers accessible over the Internet — can be much more cost-effective than buying their own hardware.

To my daughter's high school programming teacher

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Reduce your REST API server load by 66x

Case study: Zapier is a SaaS which connects hundreds of other web apps together. Polling is a necessity because it is the most ubiquitous way to detect changes. Over a representative time period, Zapier polled for changes 30 million times but only took action on 460,000 of those polls (1.

Password protection of worksheets in Excel

This is a detour from the last couple of posts; I will pick up the blackjack thread again later.  I was distracted recently by a desire to “unprotect” a password-protected Excel spreadsheet in order to view some hidden cell contents.

Turn On Your Damn Warnings

Does your build environment have optional warnings? Turn them on. All of them. This has been said hundreds of times before, but I ran into lack-of-warnings problems in practice last week so I get to say it again. Originally this post was going to be an ‘unfathomable bugs’ post.

Hidden features of Windows batch files

What are some of the lesser know, but important and useful features of Windows batch files? Clarification: We refer here to scripts that are processed by cmd.exe, which is the default on WinNT variants.

First actual computer bug was found today, 66 years ago

66 years ago today, on the 9th September, 1947, operators of the Mark II Aiken Relay Computer being tested at Harvard University, found something curious trapped between points at Relay #70, Panel F. A moth. A note made at the time explains, this was the “first actual case of bug being found”.

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Visual Studio 2013 RC for Web Developers - One ASP.NET, Browser Link, and our Direction

ASP.NET and Web Tools for VS2013RC is out today. You can feel free to install it over the top of VS2013 Preview if you like. That's what I did. Be sure to check out http://www.asp.net/vnext for release notes and docs, as well as updated tutorials.

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