April 2005 - Eric Wise

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  • Should we uncap H1-B visas?

    I've spent the morning considering this, given the recent statements by Bill Gates about H1-B limitations (currently 65,000) and how this is damaging to technology companies. There are a few differing points of view on this: Buy USA View - There are US citizen IT workers that are currently out of work...
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  • Page.GetPostBackEventReference()

    Interesting find at work today. One of my developers had two asp:image controls positioned to the right and left of a button. The developer wanted on the click of an image to call the button postback. I had no idea that the GetPostBackEventReference(control) even existed until Brendan pointed me to it...
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  • Easy Assets .NET :: Product Datasheets

    Well, the time is getting close now. Soon will be the official unveiling of the Easy Assets : Standard and Easy Assets : Enterprise packages. What this means for me is that I'm tightening the bolts on the application, finishing off user documentation, testing installs on any pc I can get my hands on...

  • Interviewing your employer

    I had a post a while back that discussed my personal interviewing techniques, and how to identify "dead wood" developers in your organization. I received a lot of positive feedback on this topic and it seems many young developers were particularily interested in the application of the topic to better...
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  • Optimizing Code - Level 100

    There has always been a mini religious war between programmers about code layout/style and when to optimize. My personal take on this has been put more weight on readability and maintainability over highly condensed, optimized code. Here's a few thoughts on this subject: Don't optimize first In almost...

  • Documentation!

    I know I haven't been overly active lately but I'm in "Crunch Mode" for Easy Assets .NET. My ISV is taking full form now. The application itself is stable, solid, and overall I'm just putting in a few last minute tweaks based on feedback. The install package works flawlessly for existing sql server ...

  • *sigh*

    I'd like to have VS 2005 from the MSDN account I paid good money for. However my provider, My-eSuite just isn't going to let me. 4.9 kb/s, 288 hours. So I'll be blogging about VS 2005 sometime in May. That's my "broadband" cable modem service. No other providers available here. I love this apartment...
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  • A quick security post

    I keep seeing a lot of examples in ASP .NET where sql server priviliges are given to the ASP.NET worker process. A few thoughts about this: By doing this you are expanding the damage that could be done if the ASPNET worker process was compromised. This is particularily so for those of you who give dbo...
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  • Geeks Rule and MBAs Drool (Latest from Eric Sink)

    Well, for anything in this article to make sense, you're going to have to read Eric Sink's latest MSDN Article . Finished? Ok then. It was interesting to hear about the logic involved behind moving sourcegear to a platform other than Microsoft's. Where I really tuned into this article though was the...
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  • Of scary security practices

    Jay had a little mini rant this morning about passwords and security. It's Friday, should be a happy day, so I'm just going to list out some rather absurd security practices I've encountered in my years of consulting and development. A major (fortune 500) company has an ordering system that in the order...

  • Convert.ToString vs ToString()

    What's the difference? Here's a console application that shows one: Dim myObject As Object = Nothing Dim toStringTest As String Dim convertTest As String Try toStringTest = myObject.ToString() Catch ex As Exception Console.WriteLine("MyObject.ToString Error: " & ex.Message) End Try Try convertTest...

  • Whoops

    I forgot to disable the change password/account creation for the demo build this morning. So naturally someone changed the admin password. The database has been restored and the proper controls are disabled, so it's all good now! On a side note, if this is the least embarassing thing that happens to...

  • Easy Assets .NET : Demo

    For those of you curious bloggers who have been asking to see a demo of Easy Assets .NET you can now! http://www.easyassets.net username: admin password: admin This is a sample database, it gets restored frequently so feel free to play with the data all you like! Feedback is always appreciated too. ;...

  • Easy Assets .NET : Finishing up

    I'm very pleased to report that Easy Assets .NET local install version is very close to "going gold". I thought I'd take this time to talk about the final pricing scheme I've come up with (thanks to a lot of thought and feedback from the IT community) and the importance of wrapping things up properly...

  • Blogjet

    I’ve finally gotten around to installing and trying out blogjet and I have to say that I like it a lot. It certainly is nice to not have to go to my homepage every time I want to do blogging and the interface for blogjet is clean and easy to use. The HTML format seems to do just fine, though I still...
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