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Adam Tibi on ASP.NET, C# & SEO

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• Three C# 2.0/3.0 Syntaxes That You Didn't Know But Were Afraid to Ask

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 10:06 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  Working with other colleagues, I found these C# syntaxes are still not well-known and used, so I thought of blogging on them. 1 - Properties Without Members In the old days, before C# 3.0, we used to write syntax like: public class Point { private int _x; private int _y; public int X { get { return

• Three C# 2.0/3.0 Syntaxes That You Didn't Know But Were Afraid to Ask

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 10:06 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  Working with other colleagues, I found these C# syntaxes are still not well-known and used, so I thought of blogging on them.1 - Properties Without MembersIn the old days, before C# 3.0, we used to write syntax like:publicclass Point { privateint _x; privateint _y;

• UK Software Consultant Nightmare: The IT Recruiting Agents

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 09:03 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  Working as a .NET software consultant in UK, I spent ages with the IT recruiting agents on the phone and had suffered their tricks. So, in this post, I thought of educating my software consultant colleagues of the agents' sneaky tricks and dodgy tactics. Recruiting agents, especially in the current

• UK Software Consultant Nightmare: The IT Recruiting Agents

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 09:03 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  Working as a .NET software consultant in UK, I spent ages with the IT recruiting agents on the phone and had suffered their tricks. So, in this post, I thought of educating my software consultant colleagues of the agents' sneaky tricks and dodgy tactics.Recruiting agents, especially in the current c

• UK Software Consultant Nightmare: The IT Recruiting Agents

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 07:03 by Adam Tibi

  Working as a .NET software consultant in UK, I spent ages with the IT recruiting agents on the phone and had suffered their tricks. So, in this post, I thought of educating my software consultant colleagues of the agents' sneaky tricks and dodgy tactics. Recruiting agents, especially in the current credit crunch, are having less 'productive' work to do due to the reduced demands in the market, so they are spending more time wasting our "software consultants&q

• How Not To Compromise Security Through ASP.NET Validators

  Posted: 23 Sep 2008 at 10:45 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  I have explained in The Three Steps of Building an ASP.NET Validator Control, how to build a validator control from the ground up in three easy steps and in a reusable format. I highly recommend reading it before going any further.Here I am discussing the common validator control security holes that

• How Not To Compromise Security Through ASP.NET Validators

  Posted: 23 Sep 2008 at 09:45 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  I have explained in The Three Steps of Building an ASP.NET Validator Control, how to build a validator control from the ground up in three easy steps and in a reusable format. I highly recommend reading it before going any further. Here I am discussing the common validator control security holes th

• How Not To Compromise Security Through ASP.NET Validators

  Posted: 23 Sep 2008 at 07:45 by Adam Tibi

  I have explained in The Three Steps of Building an ASP.NET Validator Control, how to build a validator control from the ground up in three easy steps and in a reusable format. I highly recommend reading it before going any further. Here I am discussing the common validator control security holes that might compromise your forms security when left untreated. Security Hole 1: Failing to Implement The Server-Side Validation When building a validator control from scratch or using a CustomValidator,

• The Three Steps of Building an ASP.NET Validator Control

  Posted: 22 Sep 2008 at 10:40 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  The standard ASP.NET validator controls such as the RequiredFieldValidator or the RegularExpressionValidator do not cover all validation requirements, so usually developers tend to create a CustomValidator for such scenarios.A major problem with the CustomValidator is reusability, as if you wanted t

• The Three Steps of Building an ASP.NET Validator Control

  Posted: 22 Sep 2008 at 09:40 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  The standard ASP.NET validator controls such as the RequiredFieldValidator or the RegularExpressionValidator do not cover all validation requirements, so usually developers tend to create a CustomValidator for such scenarios. A major problem with the CustomValidator is reusability, as if you wanted

• Google Sandbox: When? Why? And How to Dump it!

  Posted: 20 Sep 2008 at 15:52 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  I got a question from Anthony Grace in the comments of my previous post Three Rules That ASP.NET Developers Should Know About SEO about Google Sandbox and thought of writing this short post to illustrate what is it and how to avoid it. Google Sandbox is, in essence, the process of keeping your

• Google Sandbox: When? Why? And How to Dump it!

  Posted: 20 Sep 2008 at 14:52 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  I got a question from Anthony Grace in the comments of my previous post Three Rules That ASP.NET Developers Should Know About SEO about Google Sandbox and thought of writing this short post to illustrate what is it and how to avoid it. Google Sandbox is, in essence, the process of keeping your webs

• Three Rules That ASP.NET Developers Should Know About SEO

  Posted: 16 Sep 2008 at 19:22 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  Search engines optimisation, SEO, is an evolving 'science' and it keeps changing on purpose. Most articles that I read which involve both SEO and ASP.NET usually focus on how to programatically set the meta keywords tag and they tend to make it look like very important while, as of today, it

• Three Rules That ASP.NET Developers Should Know About SEO

  Posted: 16 Sep 2008 at 18:22 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  Search engines optimisation, SEO, is an evolving 'science' and it keeps changing on purpose. Most articles that I read which involve both SEO and ASP.NET usually focus on how to programatically set the meta keywords tag and they tend to make it look like very important while, as of today, i

• Two ASP.NET/VS 2008 Performance Tricks That Even Microsoft Didn't Know About!

  Posted: 14 Sep 2008 at 19:35 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  Visual Studio 2008 is a huge resources consumer, it takes long to load then long to open your solution, long to run it and debug it. I have been using it for more than a year now after setting VS 2005 to retirement. I have VS 2008 set on a high perforamce Vista Business laptop with 2GB of memory.

• Two ASP.NET/VS 2008 Performance Tricks That Even Microsoft Didn't Know About!

  Posted: 14 Sep 2008 at 18:35 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  Visual Studio 2008 is a huge resources consumer, it takes long to load then long to open your solution, long to run it and debug it. I have been using it for more than a year now after setting VS 2005 to retirement. I have VS 2008 set on a high perforamce Vista Business laptop with 2GB of memory. W

• LINQ to SQL: The Data Access Layer (DAL) Shrinker

  Posted: 23 Aug 2008 at 11:57 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  In the pre-LINQ days, I used to use the classical 3-tiers architecture for designing ASP.NET web projects, the user interface (UI), the business logic layer (BLL) and the data access layer (DAL).My DAL layer used to rely on Microsoft's Data Access Application Block (DAAB) which abstracted the repeti

• LINQ to SQL: The Data Access Layer (DAL) Shrinker

  Posted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:57 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  In the pre-LINQ days, I used to use the classical 3-tiers architecture for designing ASP.NET web projects, the user interface (UI), the business logic layer (BLL) and the data access layer (DAL). My DAL layer used to rely on Microsoft's Data Access Application Block (DAAB) which abstracted the repe

• IE6 ? It's alive, IT'S ALIVE!

  Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 21:25 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  I redesigned my website, adhered to the XHTML standards, validated on the W3C validator and everything went alright, now the last step, cross-browsers compatibility tests. First step, I need to look at the previous stats to learn what browsers are support-worthy. And? Surprise, surprise! IE6 i

• IE6 ? It's alive, IT'S ALIVE!

  Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 20:25 by adam.nospam@nospam.adamtibi.net (Adam Tibi)

  I redesigned my website, adhered to the XHTML standards, validated on the W3C validator and everything went alright, now the last step, cross-browsers compatibility tests. First step, I need to look at the previous stats to learn what browsers are support-worthy. And? Surprise, surprise! IE6 is sti