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Ajax Envolving – Ajax SSL

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Today I’ve found something that could be very useful for webdevelopers that need some extra security without the troubles of configuring an HTTPS server. In fact, until recently, XSP didn’t support secure HTTP, and if it didn’t support it now, it would be even more useful. I’m talking about aSSL, a MIT/X11 Ajax library that […]


Making Use Of My PDA

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

For a while now, I’ve had an old HP Jornada 565 PDA just to test and have some fun cracking it. I’ve tried to put linux on it, specially the Familiar distro, but the results where far from satisfactory. This is because the PDA is kinda old and the support was bad (no sound, bad […]


Consequences of AJAX on ASP.Net Webcontrols Development

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Every day new sites with AJAX appear and it looks like AJAX had come to stay. ASP.Net, as every other reputable web framework, must take it into account. It must provide the right tools to every scenario. What are the scenarios then? HTML Until AJAX gained momentum, this was the only possible scenario. If you […]


How To Test And Debug AJAX Performance With IIS

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

I’ve been developing an application on my intranet and everything works quick. But when I do release my application to external (internet) server I’ve found that the performance was far from acceptable. The reason is not in the server nor the client, its the network itself if you’re transmitting too much data. Under IIS on […]


How To Read RSS Feeds With C# And Mono

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Today I whished to add RSS and Atom support to one of my projects. When I took a look at the standard I realised it would be naif to spend time trying to support all the versions and imcompabilities of RSS. I then searched for projects implementing this and found one, to RSS, that fitted […]


Petition to Reverse “.NET 3.0” Name

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Today, I’ve found that some users are doing a petition to try to reverse the recently announced “.Net 3.0” name to the previously known WinFX tecnologies. So far, the best arguments I’ve tought and read are that there will be a confusion between C# 3.0, and a few other things, and the name .Net 3.0. […]


.Net Framework 3.0 to be released with Vista (Updated)

Monday, June 12th, 2006

UPDATE: Microsoft has a new community site for .Net 3.0 – NetFx3 – with lots of information and some popular RSS toolkits. In this MSDN blog Somasegar explains that many developers were confusing the tecnologies, so they decided to rename WinFx to .Net 3.0. What this really means is that the Windows Presentation, Communication, Workflow […]