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How to stop spam comments on blogs and forums

How can you stop spam from flooding a social media site? It’s like an arms race between webmasters and spammers…

Posted on Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Making an asynchronous call in ASP.NET on synchronous pages

Asynchronous pages in ASP.NET are a great feature – what do you do if using them isn’t an option?

Posted on Friday, March 13th, 2009

EPiServer: Initialising plug-ins shipped in a separate DLL

A simple way of ensuring that some code is executed when EPiServer initialises – can be shipped as a separate DLL rather than being included in a web project.

Posted on Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

New features in C# 3.0 and C# 4.0 – are Microsoft undermining C#?

I have noticed a number of features creeping in to C# 3.0 and the forthcoming C# 4.0 that I feel very uncomfortable with. In their desire to continue to develop and enhance their platform, could Microsoft be in danger of undermining C#?

Posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009

ASP.NET web services and SSL certificates – trust relationships

An explanation and solution for the ASP.NET “Could not establish trust relationship with remote server” error that can occur when using web services over SSL.

Posted on Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Optimising HTML page structure for search engine optimisation

It’s surprising how little web developers know about the basics of on-page SEO. It’s pretty simple – there are just a few important factors to bear in mind and most of them are just a case of following best practise for HTML.

Posted on Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Allow partially trusted callers – using ASP.NET in shared hosting

Developing ASP.NET applications for shared commercial web hosting space can give rise to a security issue that will restrict your development options.

Posted on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Improving ASP.NET Performance: SQL Server Database access

Your database interactions are among the most expensive operations you’ll perform in an web application.There are a number of best practices that you should be following when coding a scalable application for SQL Server – here are some of the rules that I swear by.

Posted on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008