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Homeland Security Threat Level Service Anyone?

I've been tasked with creating a control to display the current Homeland Security Threat Level on our site's home page. Of course, I don't want to change anything when our threat level changes, so I went in search of a Web Service that gives me this information. I couldn't find a SOAP service, but I...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2004 1:21 PM by Brendan Tompkins
Moblie Image Device-Specific Filtering

So, I'm working on this mobile site. I've created a title image that looks great on a color phone. I went to show it to my boss, who has an older phone without color, and it looks like crap. I knew that you could do device-specific filtering with MMIT, so I tried it out and it worked great and was easy...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2004 7:18 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Who do you think you are, anyway?

Sometimes simply knowing who you are can help a great deal. I just figured out some tricky Active Directory permission issues by tracing out the current WindowsIdentity, like so: string strCurrentID = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name; System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Current...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2004 12:30 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: .NET General
Cool Article - Generate Security Images with .NET

Cool article at code project shows how to create CAPTCHA "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart." images from .NET . Just to check, I submitted the image it generated to MyFonts.Com's What The Font? program (which is awesome by the way), it couldn't pick out the numbers...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2004 6:28 AM by Brendan Tompkins
RSS Feed Reader for the .NET Compact Framework or MMIT

Haiko Hebig posts a nice list of RSS Fee Readers here. I tried out NewsGator for Outlook, but I'm not overly impressed, and I surely won't be shelling out $30 bucks for it. I'm thinking of creating a dinky reader with the Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit, so that I can read RSS on my mobile phone. Before...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2004 2:53 PM by Brendan Tompkins
Use GDI+ to Save Crystal-Clear GIF Images with .NET

In an effort to make our gate camera images visible on a ridiculously small cellphone screen, I spent the past couple of days learning about the process of image Quantization . GDI+ will allow you to take a full-color 32 bpp image and save it as a .gif file! This turns out to be quite simple, and you...

Published Mon, Jan 26 2004 1:17 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: ASP.NET Tutorials, Most Popular
In search of a good book on Algorithms

As far as I can tell, there are no released books on algorithms for C#. I'm looking for a good general (best in C or Java?) , comprehensive book on Data Structures and Algorithms, and was wondering if anyone out there could make a reccomendation... Thanks in advance! Brendan

Published Mon, Jan 26 2004 6:28 AM by Brendan Tompkins
SharePoint™ RSS Feed Reader Web Part

Stared working with SharePointPortal again yesterday and I installed Tim Heuer's RSS Feed Reader Web Part. It's a pretty simple implementation, but it's free, and the installation worked great. -Brendan

Published Thu, Jan 22 2004 6:38 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: ASP.NET Tutorials
Simplified State Management with StateClassBase

OBSOLETE CONTENT The author of this post has determined that this content is obsolete. Use at your own risk! Blog posts are a point-in-time snapshot of the blogger's thinking and should not be assumed to represent this blogger's current opinions. This post was left up for historical purposes. State management...

Published Wed, Jan 21 2004 7:11 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: ASP.NET Tutorials
.NET replacement projects

SD Times had a recent story about replacements for the .NET runtime... They metion “Mono“ for Linux, and DotGnu. Here's a quote. Among the motivations for the project posted on www.dotgnu.org is “a desire to prevent Microsoft from achieving monopolistic control of ‘webservices...

Published Mon, Jan 19 2004 7:53 AM by Brendan Tompkins
WebMethods Executes .NET Assemblies

From SD Times: “Integration tools vendor WebMethods Inc. is set to release on Jan. 30 an update to its flagship Integration Platform that it claims is able to execute .NET assemblies directly, simplifying the reuse of program code in integration projects for developers using Visual Studio .NET...

Published Mon, Jan 19 2004 6:55 AM by Brendan Tompkins
XP Remote Desktop Bug - Fix

Microsoft's Remote Desktop technology is Rocket Science. I have no idea how it works, but I've come to depend on it. Gone are those trips down to the server room to stand in the cold while installing an application. Gone are the days of bringing home the project on CD and having everything installed...

Published Sat, Jan 17 2004 6:58 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Web.config Parsing Error - Fix

Every once in a while when I build and debug a Web application with VS.NET, I get the following error when the web.config is being parsed... I've found out that this has to do with Index Server building an index for the .config file (or something like that) and if I turn indexing off on my dev machine...

Published Fri, Jan 16 2004 8:44 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Best Regular Expression Tool

I've tried a bunch of different tools for developing Regular Expressions, such as Rad Software's Regular Expression Designer, and Roy's The Regulator (which has the coolest icon), but I keep coming back to Eric Gunnerson's Regular Expression Workbench . The thing I like the most is Eric's “Add...

Published Thu, Jan 15 2004 11:48 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Sticky Draggable Divs

OBSOLETE CONTENT The author of this post has determined that this content is obsolete. Use at your own risk! Blog posts are a point-in-time snapshot of the blogger's thinking and should not be assumed to represent this blogger's current opinions. This post was left up for historical purposes. If you...

Published Wed, Jan 14 2004 2:12 PM by Brendan Tompkins

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Homeland Security Threat Level Service Anyone?

Moblie Image Device-Specific Filtering

Who do you think you are, anyway?

Cool Article - Generate Security Images with .NET

RSS Feed Reader for the .NET Compact Framework or MMIT

Use GDI+ to Save Crystal-Clear GIF Images with .NET

In search of a good book on Algorithms

SharePoint™ RSS Feed Reader Web Part

Simplified State Management with StateClassBase

.NET replacement projects

WebMethods Executes .NET Assemblies

XP Remote Desktop Bug - Fix

Web.config Parsing Error - Fix

Best Regular Expression Tool

Sticky Draggable Divs