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Email ASP.NET Exception

Tue, 01 May 2007 02:50:16 GMT

Of late, I've started expanding the amount of websites that I'm starting. As such, I've realized that their is tremendous value in a default set of code where I can start programming. For instance, today I decided to add to that, the ability to email the webmaster all unhandled exceptions. Anyhow, here's the best solution I found.

http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/3.4.aspx

Don't Change the XML Namespaces

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:04:30 GMT

I'm very frustrated with XML grammars that change so radically that you need special processing to convert one to another. This is something I've really liked about RSS. Most all legacy versions of RSS remains valid today. On the other hand, there's HR-XML. They change the namespace with every new release, thus making every version incompatible with every other version. I guess its a cool way of denoting version. I also love the version attribute in RSS.

Open Complexity

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:34:20 GMT

Today, I came across a sourceforge project that did something similar to what I was trying to accomplish. I dug into the source code only to find it was too cryptic to be re-used. For example, a variable that would have the English meaning Puzzle Piece, was pp. That's not a real example from the project, but one that demonstrates what the coder had done. After awhile of trying to read this cryptic code, I began to suspect that this was intentional on the author's part. His project was open-source and clearly his algorithms had value. What better way to make sure someone doesn't re-use your code, then to make it complete cryptic. So why sourceforge?

TextSnippets

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:49:44 GMT

TextSnippets has a great collection of useful code.

HTML <SELECT> list of region codes.
http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/873
HTML <SELECT> list of country codes.
http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/872

http://textsnippets.com/