Posts from 2004



Back from Hawaii

Just got back from vacationing in Hawaii (the islands of Maui, Moloka'i, and Oahu).

Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks with Web Resources

We found a potential Denial of Service (DOS) attack using Web resources, and fixed it...

Potential Cross-site Scripting Attack when entering in a Color

Theres a potential XSS attack to watch for when allowing entry of Color values.

Non-visual Controls are not just Components

Thoughts on non-visual controls in ASP.NET Whidbey such as SqlDataSource, and the new NonVisualControl metadata attribute.

Long overdue site update

A long overdue set of updates to my site... (phase #1)

Zooming during presentations

Neat little trick for zooming browser content for presentations...

Rio pictures posted

Pictures taken from my Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, trip are now online...

MVP Summit slides and demo code

Slide deck and code presented at the MVP Summit down in Rio.

Data-binding to public fields... yes or no?

To bind or not to bind to fields?

Enabling greater control over rendered HTML

A discussion (and some early thoughts) on enabling greater control over server-generated markup in ASP.NET...

Metadata-based Intellisense

Automatic metadata-driven schema generation for server control intellisense in Whidbey

San Diego Pictures (Set 2)

Pictures from the Wild Animal Park a short drive from to downtown San Diego...

Signs of "geekiness"

How you can spot a geek when you see one?

Trying out a new thing...

Taking the bus to work...

ViewState improvements in Whidbey

A bit about the new control state feature and view state serializer improvements in Whidbey, that should help go a long ways into minimizing view state on aspx pages.

Async callbacks in server controls

A discussion about the "Callbacks" feature in ASP.NET Whidbey, and a sample control and slide deck to go along with it.

San Diego Pictures (Set 1)

Photos from around the city in San Diego, California...

Postbacks or Not?

Some thoughts on whether or not to use postbacks in authoring an ASP.NET Web application, what are some of the side-effects, and what we're doing in Whidbey to improve the postback model...

Time flies...

Blogging again :-)

Bezier Spline Designer code

Sample Avalon code to my bezier designer...

Bezier Spline Designer using Avalon

A mini designer to create Bezier spline curves using the Path shape from Avalon.

Blog Awards

Awards for the blogging world...

Server control blogs

Blogs dedicated to server controls...

Applying personas

A bit about the Mort, Elvis and Einstein personas, and how they apply in the realm of server controls in ASP.NET Whidbey.