ASP.NET Resources

November 2009

Don't Blabber About Your Employer During Interviews

As I do phone screens and in-person interviews with candidates, it’s funny and ironic to me how much sensitive information they disclose about their employer just for the asking. The kind of inside knowledge most employers would hate to see disclosed about their operations, which is why they put draconian clauses about it in employment contracts. And yet, that knowledge walks out the door that easily.

11/19/2009 |

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Book Review: In Pursuit of Elegance

While reading a fascinating discussion of inefficiency of traffic control systems—road signs, traffic lights, etc—in Matthew May’s In Pursuit of Elegance, I came across this interesting thought:

11/18/2009 |

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Comparing Strings Like It's 1995

While going through The Art of Unit Testing: with Examples in .NET this morning, I came across a string comparison notation, which always makes me cringe:

11/13/2009 |

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How to Make crossdomain.xml Work with SharePoint

Not long ago I worked on a web site which had all its content and media stored in SharePoint. At an early point in the project, Flash developers started to complain that none of their media played when served from SharePoint. The problem seemed obvious: the cross-domain policy file, crossdomain.xml, was missing. Here’s what it’s for (via Adobe):

11/3/2009 |

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November 2009

Don't Blabber About Your Employer During Interviews

Book Review: In Pursuit of Elegance

Comparing Strings Like It's 1995

How to Make crossdomain.xml Work with SharePoint