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Free Agile demo in Austin - level 200

Rally Software Development Bringing Agile Roadshow to Austin

Published Thu, Feb 24 2005 3:31 PM by Jeffrey Palermo
Run features in a separate AppDomain - level 300

Along with putting feature dlls in a separate directory with the shared assemblies they need, I like to run these features in an isolated AppDomain to contain memory usage as well as state. When using Trace for logging, this is a great benefit because application state is local to the AppDomain, so my...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2005 4:58 PM by Jeffrey Palermo
Avoid the GAC, prefer XCOPY. Here's why - level 300

I know I may get some comments saying that the GAC should be used for shared assemblies, but it's so much easier to maintain XCOPY deployment with a consuming assembly in a directory by itself with the shared assemblies it needs. Let me give a scenario where I would do this: I have a windows application...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2005 4:32 PM by Jeffrey Palermo
Update on XmlSerializerSectionHandler - level 200

Here is another update to the XmlSerializerSectionHandler that Craig Andera introduced. The code below is essentially the same: public class XmlSerializerSectionHandler : IConfigurationSectionHandler { public object Create( object p_oParent, object p_oConfigContext, System.Xml.XmlNode p_oSection) { XPathNavigator...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2005 4:28 PM by Jeffrey Palermo
Use XHTML for your web applications, please! - level 100

I realize that a lot of web applications are targeted for IE, and it may be an intranet application. Even so, it pays to put the line: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> Adding this will save you so much grief later on....

Published Sun, Feb 20 2005 3:21 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
Reverse engineering a project from the binaries after losing the source code - level 300

I just did this today, and it actually didn't take long. I inherited a project, and the source code did not come with it. It's a side project, not at my company, but I originally thought that I might have to start from scratch. Normally, I probably would have, but by using Reflector I was able to leverage...

Published Sun, Feb 20 2005 3:11 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
Eating at Rudy's after a talk with Brad Abrams - level 000

Brad gave a great talk Friday at the Austin .Net User Group. He covered the guts of Exceptions and Finalizers and the Dispose pattern. Afterwards, we at at Rudy's BBQ - the worst BBQ in Texas! (that's the slogan). Here's some pics: I'm the 4th one back on the right.

Published Sun, Feb 20 2005 12:37 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
Stay away from job postings like this! - level 000

I came across this on a message board, and I just HAD to blog it: Requirements(.Net Developer position): *2 yrs exp programming in .NET. *Exp with C# and VB.NET required. *Experience with ActiveX DLL, EXE, and OCX programming required. *Experience and knowledge with Windows 32 API. *5 yrs exp with Structured...

Published Sat, Feb 19 2005 9:01 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
Watch out for this MSN IM virus - level 200

You need to read: http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bropia.m.html If you get an IM message (even from someone you know) that reads something like this: LOOK! http://members.chello.nl/g.geurts1/handcuffs.XYZ. . . . Don't click on it. If you do, you'll need to clean it before rebooting because...

Published Tue, Feb 15 2005 11:41 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
If your mind can't keep up with your fingers - level 100

I learn things from Google.com every day, and today, I was typing very fast and typed Googel, and before my mind could process it, I had hit the CTRL + Enter keys. I expected to have to retype it, but it was redirected to the correct url. What a great plan. Knowing that malicious sites would pop up with...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2005 7:52 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
If you log exceptions, watch out for Response.Redirect() - level 200

A common practice with any web application is to log fatal exceptions. After all, if the user can't complete the intended operation, wouldn't you want to know about it? I log all fatal exceptions in my apps because if one of these happens, I want to know about it so I can fix the bug. Often, a production...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2005 6:44 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
The elusive Path class and it's "hidden" static methods - level 200

If you ever find yourself manually parsing a file name or any part of a path, stop! It's very tempting to use a couple of lines of code to trim an extension off of a file, but why do it. Also, if you ever have a directory path and a file name, don't concatenate the two strings together (making sure that...

Published Thu, Feb 10 2005 12:36 PM by Jeffrey Palermo
Evaluating CommunityServer RC1 - level 000

I downloaded CommunityServer RC1 today, and it looks promising. Setup was a snap. The installer is great. I went through the forums, blogs, and gallery features, and it looks very good. I love the photo gallery feature. This is some really great UI work! The blog part looks very similar to .Text v0.95...

Published Mon, Feb 7 2005 1:56 PM by Jeffrey Palermo
Use Master pages in v1.1 - level 200

Ben Reichelt blogged about using Master Pages , and I realized that I never put out the word that I posted my version of v1.1 master page controls to my website. Go to http://palermo.cc/MyToolDownloads/Default.aspx to download my "EZ Master Pages" controlset. It is based on the foundation of the controls...

Published Mon, Feb 7 2005 10:28 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
I'm famous. I guest-starred in a TestFixture on a Whidbey webcast! - level 000

Rory Blyth gave a webcast on the unit-testing features of Whidbey, and he mentioned my name in the test. I'm flattered. I will completely ignore that “Jeremey Palermo” was mentioned. I'll assume it was “Jeffrey Palermo” and go on with life. :) The recorded webcast can be viewed...

Published Fri, Feb 4 2005 12:21 PM by Jeffrey Palermo

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Free Agile demo in Austin - level 200

Run features in a separate AppDomain - level 300

Avoid the GAC, prefer XCOPY. Here's why - level 300

Update on XmlSerializerSectionHandler - level 200

Use XHTML for your web applications, please! - level 100

Reverse engineering a project from the binaries after losing the source code - level 300

Eating at Rudy's after a talk with Brad Abrams - level 000

Stay away from job postings like this! - level 000

Watch out for this MSN IM virus - level 200

If your mind can't keep up with your fingers - level 100

If you log exceptions, watch out for Response.Redirect() - level 200

The elusive Path class and it's "hidden" static methods - level 200

Evaluating CommunityServer RC1 - level 000

Use Master pages in v1.1 - level 200

I'm famous. I guest-starred in a TestFixture on a Whidbey webcast! - level 000