A recent post by Karl on the page_load event again mentioned how hard it is to fully understand the life cycle of an asp.net page. In a comment Fregas even mentions switching to PHP (or RoR) to get a better grip on it. IMHO this is running away from the core of the problem which is (still imho) the web...

Working a lot with a computer has a couple of health risks, which get bigger and bigger over the years. There are several ways to fight this: Just get away from your screen and do something else . Switch pointing devices to prevent RSI Get a lot of screen real estate and fill it with big text to make...

Last week another rant on stored procs in databases passed by. A lot on it has been said over and over again but still I would like to add my 2 eurocents. Recently I inherited a database which contained a lot of sprocs and other coded logic. So I was forced into some more real world experience. The thing...

The term RAD is more or less a hot topic on Codebetter. It started with a "RAD kills" post by Jeffrey which lead many people to chime in. As I almost glorified RAD it's time to write something more elaborate on how I think you can work with RAD without making a mess out of it. This will dance around...

In a recent post I described how easy it was to turn your website into a spamming tool provided you know how to change some IIS settings. In a comment Dennis wrote " Some things are so simple, you'd expect everyone to know these things and use them wisely. Unfortunatly,. " Yes both coding and setup on...

I was struck by a post Make it as rich as possible by simplegeek Chris'An where he complains about the limitations of "normal" web apps and raves about the possibilities AJAX will bring to browser apps. When talking about morts Rocky Lhotka mentions VB6 as their development environment of choice to build...