Distributed VS Server Based Version Control Systems
August 18th, 2010 | 
Author: This video will discuss the differences and advantages of using a distributed version control system, like Git, compared to a server based version control system, like SubVersion or SourceSafe.
This video was originally produced for my clients who tend to be small organizations, but the video discusses large project implementations as well.
Posted in Git | 
Tags: distributed version control, Git, sourcesafe, SubVersion, Version Control | 
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The Google Appliance and Forms Authentication
I’ve been working with a client to implement the Google Appliance on one of their sites that has forms authentication enabled.
For those of you who aren’t aware, Google provides a box that you can install to index your own site using essentially the same logic that Google uses to index the Internet. The advantage is that you have a lot more control over what gets indexed and when it gets indexed than if you just use what Google provides from its public index of the Internet.
Transaction Tracking Typed Datasets Using SqlTransaction
I recently had the need to implement transaction tracking between two separate databases on two separate servers.
Unfortunately, I could not be sure that DTC was implemented on either server, so using transaction tracking with the TransactionScope wasn’t an option.
I also wanted to be able to wire this in easily to the existing 3-tiered framework we are currently using so that what I ended up with could easily be implemented by other developers in a similar situation.
Posted in Advanced CSharp |
Tags: .net 3.5, dataset, sqltransaction, tableadapter, transactions |
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jQuery Cookbook
jQuery simplifies building rich, interactive web frontends. Getting started with this JavaScript library is easy, but it can take years to fully realize its breadth and depth; this cookbook shortens the learning curve considerably. With these recipes, you’ll learn patterns and practices from 19 leading developers who use jQuery for everything from integrating simple components into websites and applications to developing complex, high-performance user interfaces.
Paging on a Datalist
This morning, my email had the following question:
“I am having a problem with datalist. Is it possible to do paging on datalist? If yes, what is the solution? I am using VB.NET on Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Any recommend extension or solution?”
While I’m pretty sure I’ve addressed this in a previous article, I couldn’t find it doing a quick search, so I’ll review this issue again this morning.
