September 2003 Blog Posts
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...
This article presents a .net class
and sql database to log http referrals.
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...
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...
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...
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System.Xml.Xsl.XsltArgumentList, System.IO.TextWriter)' is obsolete: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.
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.