[This has been in the queue for a long time - over 12 months - codebetter just tipped me over the edge!] Peter Van Dijck asks: I’ve only worked twice with companies using .NET for web interfaces, and in both cases the UI was a disaster and the usability problems guaranteed lots of consulting hours.. [...]
[Ed: For anyone who's living under a bush Microsoft have released a CTP of the new ASP.NET MVC framework. ] I’m reluctant to get involved in this – but I feel like there’s another side to this story which is worth considering. Since it was first presented at altnetconf – the decision to require users1 [...]
It seems like the win32 crowd is discovering memcached. I’ve got a couple of support queries about it over the last month or two and I thought I’d post an interesting one here: “How can you run multiple instances of memcached on a single machine?” There’s a couple of reasons why you’d want to do [...]
I got a chance over the weekend to watch the videos from altnetconf on the new Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework. It’s a really exciting development. Anyway – as I’ve listened I’ve got myself a list of questions about features – I figured I’d put them here so I can see how they get on. In [...]
Mats comments on my previous post: “But I guess what I’m saying is that the code for inserting that string using just strings may look even worse when you come back to look at it a week later…” If your thinking that I’m talking about code like: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.Append(“xxx – yyy [...]
Today I spent a long time trying to add a control to the Page.Controls collection from a MasterPage. Short version: without writing a(nother) IHttpModule which hooks Page_PreLoad and fires off an event of it’s own on the MasterPage. You can’t. (unless I’m missing something). Another classic example of WebForms being too complicated for it’s own [...]
Scott Bellware makes a brillant comment on Hammett’s weblog: ASP .NET templated controls did almost nothing to encourage separation of orthogonal concerns. It simply ended up separating concerns that aren’t separate concerns. Pure Genius – this summarises an entire field of criticism (e.g. [1][2]). The whole issue with the OnRowDataBound/FindControl() style of programming is that [...]
Things I’ve learnt today: One. What I’ve learnt: If you use the convenient (if old school) Server.Transfer method to render a different page to a client then you need to be aware that ASP.NET pipeline events1 will not run. You know – BeginRequest, AuthenticateRequest – unimportant things like that. Basically – nothing that happens in [...]
Note: This is a review of the recently release BackgroundMotion source code and developer guidance. Full disclosure – I used to work with Jeremy and consider him a friend. I finally made some time today to sit down and browse through the source code for BackgroundMotion. For those of you who haven’t come across this [...]
You walk into the office and get told that you need to drop everything you were going to be working on because there’s a recurring problem on the production servers. For the last few days we’ve been experiencing a 100% CPU utilization on the w3wp.exe (the asp.net worker) process. Killing it off will fix the [...]
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