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Paschal Leloup

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• The .Net Coffee Break Show is back! Thursday 18th of June with Dino Esposito

  Posted: 14 Jun 2009 at 23:07 by help.net

  Developers.ie invites you to attend our regular webcast. What's new in ASP.NET 4.0 presented by Dino Esposito Summary : The keyword to understand what's new in the overall ASP.NET 4.0 platform is "more control". ASP.NET 4.0 is neither revolution nor refactoring...(read more)

• How to protect yourself against the latest SQL injection

  Posted: 20 Dec 2008 at 13:10 by help.net

  Now it's time to rejoice and be positive. Following my different posts about the latest SQL injection attacks, I got all sort of comments. Roughly half of the commenters saying I am a moron, why you don't go back to school and protect your databases,...(read more)

• MSIE 0-day Spreading Via SQL Injection

  Posted: 19 Dec 2008 at 19:11 by help.net

  OK I think this SQL injection spreading everywhere has to be more than just a bad coding practices! Thanks to a reader I got this link to this interesting post I am copying here for information. Now how we are supposed to block that?? Original post here...(read more)

• Hundreds of websites under attack and Microsoft are you doing something?

  Posted: 19 Dec 2008 at 11:47 by help.net

  Following my last post on the subject of SQL injection, this story is far from being finished. First thanks to all your comments, I really applied most of the advices, licke checking against query string vulnerabilities,XSS, etc... I don't use dynamic...(read more)

• Warning, new nasty worm on the loose, be very careful

  Posted: 16 Dec 2008 at 18:41

  Hi folks Raise the alarm, it seems a nasty new worm is on the loose. Sadly too late for me, my SQL database has been infected twice in the past ten days, and even if I have some backup I lost some data :-( I identified the culprit as Jpdog.3322 and it...(read more)

• Modifying the HTTP Response Using Filters

  Posted: 08 Dec 2008 at 00:44

  When a browser requests an ASP.NET page from a web server, the ASP.NET engine takes that request through a number of steps that, together, generate the resulting markup, which is returned to the requesting browser for display. The stages in this process...(read more)

• Evolutility lightweight framework for heavy lifting

  Posted: 08 Dec 2008 at 00:40

  Evolutility is a generic web UI for database applications. With it you can build CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) web applications simply by providing the metadata describing your application UI and database mapping. No hand-coding is required. Read...(read more)

• The .Net Coffee Break show 10 - Parallel programming with Stephen Toub - 11th December

  Posted: 08 Dec 2008 at 00:29

  Join our next webcast! 11th December 2008 Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast. Our next speaker is Stephen Toub, Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft Parallel programming with .NET...(read more)

• The .Net Coffee Break Show 9 - Josh Holmes - Leveraging IronRuby in Silverlight

  Posted: 01 Dec 2008 at 22:57

  Join our next webcast! 3rd of December 2008 Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast. Our next speaker is Josh Holmes, Microsoft Architect Evangelist. Leveraging IronRuby in Silverlight Summary : Join Josh Holmes as he talks...(read more)

• For your screenshots...FireShot

  Posted: 01 Dec 2008 at 13:36

  FireShot is an in-browser tool for Firefox and Internet Explorer that allows you to take screenshots and then annotate, edit, organize and export them. Screen-grabbing is a common activity for Web developers to document previews of Web application prototypes...(read more)

• How a screen reader see your page, use Fangs

  Posted: 01 Dec 2008 at 13:34

  Fangs is an in-browser tool for Firefox that emulates what a screen reader “sees” when visiting a Web page. Its function is simple: to output a transcript of what a screen reader will read out to a user when a Web page is visited. It’s a helpful tool...(read more)

• YSlow

  Posted: 01 Dec 2008 at 13:32

  YSlow is a Firefox extension created by Yahoo! developers that integrates with Firebug (therefore you need to have Firebug enabled for it to work). YSlow analyzes a Web page for front-end performance and, in its simplest usage, gives you a letter grade...(read more)

• 10 handwritten fonts you can't miss

  Posted: 01 Dec 2008 at 13:21

  Check this good selection of free handwritten fonts for your web development! Check also this page for more free fonts...(read more)

• DebugBar

  Posted: 01 Dec 2008 at 13:03

  DebugBar is similar to the Firebug extension for Firefox, except that it works for Internet Explorer. Download here......(read more)

• Is Linq for SQL truly dead?

  Posted: 01 Dec 2008 at 11:17

  It's really a sad situation when you invest your time and money in new technologies and to see it abandoned or deprecated by their creators. I am usually cautious in adopting new stuff from Redmond too quickly and wait the version 2 like I did with Silverlight...(read more)

• Event Reminder: John Resig on our webcast tomorrow!

  Posted: 18 Nov 2008 at 10:12

  This is a really cool event tomorrow. We have THE creator of JQuery John Resig on the .Net Coffee Break Show! Check www.developers.ie for more details and the registration. I believe this is a great opportunity to talk to the man himself, and see him...(read more)

• The creator of JQuery, John Resig on our webcast show - 19th of November live from Boston

  Posted: 31 Oct 2008 at 11:56

  Join our next webcast! 19th of November 2008 Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast. Our next speaker is John Resig , creator and lead developer of the JQuery Javascript library, live from Boston. Summary : Using JQuery to...(read more)

• The .Net Coffee Break Show - Using ADO.NET Data Services with Silverlight

  Posted: 09 Oct 2008 at 16:55 by help.net

  Join our next webcast! 15th of October 2008 Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast. Our next speaker is Tim Heuer, Silverlight Program Manager for Microsoft . Tim will broadcast from Arizona! Summary: Using ADO.NET Data Services...(read more)

• The .NET Coffee Break show with Sidar Ok - Using POCOs as Linq to SQL entities

  Posted: 27 Sep 2008 at 13:53 by help.net

  Join our next webcast! 2nd of October 2008 Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast. Our next speaker is Sidar Ok, with a talk on Using POCOs as Linq to SQL entities . Sidar Ok is a Senior .NET developer in Decare Systems Ireland...(read more)

• .NET event in Dublin - Josh Holmes - Developing RIAs with Silverlight 2

  Posted: 27 Sep 2008 at 13:51 by help.net

  09/10/2008 - Dublin - Josh Holmes - Developing RIAs with Silverlight 2 Location: Morrisson Hotel Dublin Summary Rich Internet Applications (RIA) provide a similar user experience than traditional desktop applications combined with the ease of deployment...(read more)