At least in my history of programming I have always concatenated paths as I build them in my code. A good example of this is deciding where to store uploaded ph

I hate several things about programming in the .NET stack, well not really that they affect me now. But it is really some of the ways we teach new .NET programm

I have found it really interesting to learn the background of some of the great programmers in the world and for those in the mid 30s, like me, many seem to hav

I read Dilbert every day, it adds levity to my technical life. Besides I cannot watch Office Space every day can I? Today's Dilbert was funny, but makes a very

When I first started on my own web development and hosting business 8 years ago I had no clue about was DNS or Domain Name Servers worked. To that point I also

The topic recently came up where I was asked how I set up multiple sites on the same port and IP address in IIS. There are two separate threads on how this work

I saw a question on the ASP.NET forums on when to use or what is URL Mapping good for. This is a very good question, especially for newbies to the ASP.NET parad

At the Raleigh Code Camp things went pretty well. There of course were things here and there that did not go according to plan, one of those was how are we goin

Yesterday Google started hijacking 404 status codes through the Google Toolbar from unknowing Web sites to show pages with ads. TechCrunch even has a poll aski

Cross-Site Scripting attacks are very common on the Internet these days. The sad thing is these attacks can easily be thwarted with a little extra analysis and

My friend from Atlanta, Jim Wooley recently finished his book on LINQ, LINQ In Action. The book covers LINQ basics, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML and LINQ Extensions

One of the annoying things I have had to encounter is working from a Windows server and trying to surf the web. What you find are a constant barrage of dialogs

A very common issue that many new developers come into when using a DropDownList control is how to truly bind items to the list. A common problem that happens i

Digging through some stuff on Brad's Blog history I found this interesting post on DateTime formatting. He was referring to something on Julie Lerman's old Blog

There is no point in having an online store if you do not accept money from your customers. Deciding how you will get paid truly involves every single aspect of

My final entry in my series on elements for E-Commerce sites I want to go over some aspects related to programming. Some of this is as much marketing as it is p

Previously I wrote about key points to marketing an E-Commerce site. While I wrote things from the perspective of application to an E-Commerce perspective those

I have developed over 250 ASP.NET sites alone in the past 6 years. In doing that many sites I have had more than my fair share of opportunities to develop custo

To continue on my theme of a good E-Commerce practices, the next topic is security. I will never admit to be a full blown security expert, but I feel comfortabl

After long last I finally have my copies of my book, ASP.NET 2.0 Your Visual Blueprint for developing Web Applications. This is my first book and I put a lot o

I am slowly but surely started to really get the hang of this AJAX stuff, especially with the ASP.NET AJAX framework. I have been having an issue with some basi