I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

All in all, it's been a pretty fun week so far. My favorite sessions by far were Rocky's architecture session and David Platt's jam packed session on Why Software Sucks . Rocky and David are both very engaging speakers who use humor and make the audience feel comfortable in interacting with...

Nuff Said.

It is undeniable that the blogosphere is becoming a prime time source of networking, information, and advertising. With this in mind, we've been watching the evolution of blogging. Authors like Scott Hanselman and Sahil Malik, business owners like Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink all are using the blogosphere...

Here's a fun one I did for the IAmBrilliant project. There are several places in the system where there is entering and editing of address information. So we wanted to come up with a nice little user control that could be shared across pages. (You can download the source page here since community server...

Ok, it's been a bit of time since I posted some technical content. I seem to be the only codebetter blogger who has big business aspirations and is launching a real ISV so I've been trying to mix that content into the Codebetter feed for those of you who have similar aspirations. I think it's time to...

http://www.paymon.net/Pages/Show.aspx?page=17 Image compression tool for those of you who want to allow users to upload large images without having to have the user go through the pain of compression. In a test it chunked down a 1.2mb image I uploaded to a mere 50ish kb. Image still looked good when...

A common question I get from ASP .NET developers is how to quickly and easily set up forms authentication where the passwords in the database are not stored in plain text. It actually shocks me how many systems I've gone into on the database end and seen passwords for every account in the application...

So, I've recently finished Beta 1 of the local install of Easy Assets .NET and I started passing it to some of the beta testers (thanks to those companies that graciously accepted to test it). So far a few people have been into my code and I've received many compliments on how clean and nice the database...

I have recently been tasked with creating a 1,000 ft overview of Object Oriented concepts in the VB .NET world for a development staff whose experience is mostly in old school ASP and VB 6.0 Much credit to The Book of Visual Studio .NET , ISBN 1-886411-69-7 from No Starch Press written by Robert B. Dunaway...