- Posted by Ian Suttle on April 23, 2008
- Filed under General | OS
XP Pro is great. Vista is... what was it mom said about not having anything nice to say... i forget... Horrible. Server 2003 is cool as well. The problem is XP and 2003 are becoming aged. We've been working with these OS's for quite some time now and quite frankly I'm getting bored with them.
I got a new workstation at the office (Dell XPS 720) and decided to brave the latest in OS tech - Windows Server 2008 Standard, 64bit. Ohad's Windows Server 2008 as Workstation and Convert Your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation blog have been quite helpful. I've enabled a number of these features including the beautify move through enabling themes (hey Vista may suck but it's perty).
One note to you developers out there using a 64bit OS and 32bit installs of VS2k5 and 2k8 - don't try to mix SQL Server 2005 32bit and 64bit features. Sounds like a stupid thing to try but I did it:).
- Posted by Ian Suttle on April 17, 2008
- Filed under Design
Have you seen ".Core" being tacked on to assembly and project names? It seems to me it's a new trend if you will... one where you package a number of commonly used namespaces into a single assembly. The .NET 3.5 framework does this with System.Core.dll which contains often used namespaces such as System.Collections.Generic, System.Diagnostics, System.IO, System.Linq, System.Security, System.Threading, and more. Upon quick glance I've also notice the Spring.NET framework has a .Core assembly used in a similar fashion.
From a development standpoint that's really nice... a single project with lots of functionality. It saves me loads of references and cuts down on functionality search time.
- Posted by Ian Suttle on April 14, 2008
- Filed under BlogEngine.Net
This is serious business if you're running BlogEngine.net.
The exploit allows a user to use the javascript axd to access the user.xml file and display its contents in the browser. If you're eyeballs are jittery right now you've got the right reaction unless you're just highly caffienated and don't mind username and passwords in plain text.
Danny Douglass has a quick fix by replacing the current BlogEngine.Core.dll with his updated version. I'm running the update on this site as a proof of concept of it working.