Jeffrey Palermo has the following gem :" use Infragistics/Telerik over in-the-box controls" .
I strongly disagree. 3rd party asp.net controls are usually awful...they spit our crappy large html and javascript which doesn't work on all browsers. Better stick with the default ones (not that they are perfect but they suck less). I had once made a test with a tab control : a "hand made" tab control (html and css) placed on a empty aspx page resulted in a 3kb html. Same thing with a Telerik tab control resulted in a whooping 12kb.
The idea is that if you can accomplish something with a HTML control then DO IT. Use server side controls only when you absolutely need them.

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Nicely written book about web apps security. Covers sql injection, XSS vulnerabilities, client side trojans and more. I especially liked that, due to the writing style, it was very simple to ""grasp"" the information.
Recommended.

I'm in a reading spree :).
I'm talking about the last books of the "trilogy" because the first one doesn't have any connection with these 2 (but still it's a trilogy).
"The promise of the witch king" reads very much like the story of a second rate hack and lash RPG : assemble party, locate evil, kick ass. That's all .
"Road of the patriarh" is just simply....pointless. Story wise there isn't any point for that book to exist.
If Salvatore wants to "keep" Jarlaxe and Antreri as valid characters he must do waaaay better than this "Sellswords" trilogy.

I had to removed the forum from www.voidsoft.ro/forum due to excessive spamming. So i have created a discussion list at http://groups.google.com/group/datablock-discussions?hl=en .
To post a question about DataBlock you'll just have to mail datablock-discussions@googlegroups.com.

Great book.In depth discussions from http caching (sic) to hierarchical cache protocols. If you're interesting in HTTP caching this is a must read.

I went to see Lake Of Tears live 2 nights ago (both Rage and LoT were playing). I really like LoT and had very high expectations for the concert. Having listened to only a few songs i didn't really knew what to expect from Rage but i was very pleasantly surprised by the performance. Great show, music, sound quality, i liked the way they acted on stage....overall all a excellent performance.

After Rage i was really pumped up. And LoT took the stage and they started playing and...well...everything went downhill. Daniel Brennare, the LoT vocal player, was (at least half) drunk. Of course nobody would have cared about this if he would have given a decent performance, but the guy was almost mumbling. Of course it wasn't helped by the fact that the sound installation was running at max level and the fact that the bass covered all instruments.And the discussion with the public went something like "spit...friends...fuck yeah....spit...spit..spit...friends...fuck yeah". I was expecting a heck of a lot more from LoT but, unfortunately, it wasn't the case. :(

I was thinking about how exactly i am going to use Linq "in the real world" yesterday. For me it will be as a Karmencita replacement. Because, sadly, i have never had enough free time to implement joins in Karmencita. Syntax highlightning also helps :D.
But seriously i see DataBlock + Linq perfect for implementing large "in memory" (in the ASP.NET Session State Service) data caches. That's by far the best use i see for it right now.

Steve writes about the new agreement between MS and Novell for creating a Silverlight implementation for Linux.
I also think that if the Moonlight is based on the MS supplied binary codecs it doesn't stand a chance in the future. Microsoft simply wants some help to position Silverlight as a Flash competitor which supports "all platforms". Once they'll gain some traction they'll simply ditch the Linux implementation. Happened before and it will happen again.

I was working on a URL rewriter (implemented as a IHttpHandler) and i stumbled on a nasty bug in the runtime. After you Server.Transfer, in the resulting page you can't access the session anymore (HttpContext.Current.Session is always null). That pretty much makes Server.Transfer worthless.

Nasty.