Calling COM from ASP.NET
If you want to call old-style COM components from an ASP.NET page, or worse, from an ASP.NET web service, be sure to read this article carefully first: Wicked Code: Running… Read more »
Author Archives: Jonathan Tappan
The Problem with FeedBurner
A lot of weblogs and similar sites use feedburner.com to generate custom RSS feeds. This gives a lot of flexibility, but it has a hidden disadvantage: your feeds will not… Read more »
How to delete all cookies in Firefox on closing, EXCEPT for those from selected domains
Under Options|Privacy|Cookies select “Allow sites to set cookies” and “until I close Firefox”. Then press the Exceptions button and add the sites that you want to allow to set permanent… Read more »
Security Engineering book
Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems by Ross Anderson is now available on-line.
Visual.SpellCheck page hack
engrowe.com » Blog Archive » Visual.SpellCheck page hack makes Visual.SpellCheck work with WordPress pages. Update: after experimenting with this I decided to remove it for the moment. It has a… Read more »
Startup Applications List
A handy list of windows startup applications that may be shown by MSCONFIG (from Sysinfo.org).
Converting PowerPoint to HTML
For various reasons I have to use Microsoft PowerPoint to prepare presentations, but if I post the slides on-line I want them in HTML format so that they can be… Read more »
Contract-First Web Service Development
I just gave a talk on Contract-First web service development using .NET tools. The slides are available here.
Dojo, the JavaScript Toolkit
The Dojo Foundation
FCKeditor
FCKeditor: Online text editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, Java and JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It’s… Read more »