September 2003 Blog Posts

Referral Spammers

The danger in logging and showing every referring site comes from spammers, attempting to flood google's page rank. Google's description of page rank, at a basic level says "PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual...

posted @ Tuesday, September 30, 2003 3:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Logging referring URLs

This article presents a .net class and sql database to log http referrals.

posted @ Sunday, September 28, 2003 7:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Using SOAP

Sam Gentile says very few shops care about Web Services in real usage. I hope I'm not the only one. I'm developing a web service that allows creation of orders, porting the classic order and order items objects you learn about when teaching yourself OOP. Customers create an order via the web service, which returns a unique order ID and then...

posted @ Monday, September 15, 2003 9:00 PM | Feedback (0)

Where do you want to go today dirtbag?

Damnit, who said MS had no sense of humour? Red vs Blue, geek gaming fun. Someone get me a new rucksack from the PDC, Microsoft conference rucksacks are high quality. My 2001 TechEd rucksack is only starting to fall apart now, after 2.5 years of abuse <hint>stephbu<hint>. Whilst we're on wish lists, why won't IBM, HP or the Microsoft store...

posted @ Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:15 AM | Feedback (0)

Playing with IE

Is right clicking and choosing "View Source" too complicated or disabled with javascript? Try entering view-source:http://idunno.org/default.aspx into the address bar and you get the source code. Those that complain that IE doesn't obey w3 specifications may find it annoying that it does obey the 2 connections to...

posted @ Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:30 AM | Feedback (0)

Migrating your XML transform to .net 1.1

XML transforms in the .net framework changed from 1.0 to 1.1. When you compile your code for 1.1 the compiler throws 'System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform.Transform(System.Xml.XPath.IXPathNavigable, System.Xml.Xsl.XsltArgumentList, System.IO.TextWriter)' is obsolete: 'You should pass XmlResolver to Transform() method' This article shows you how to change your transforms and why you should.

posted @ Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:30 PM | Feedback (2)

Using Index Server with .Net

The search on this site is provided by Microsoft's Index Server, a search engine built into Windows 2000, 2003 and even XP. This article shows you how to build a search query and use it with the .net framework.

posted @ Saturday, September 06, 2003 2:30 PM | Feedback (0)