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Archive for October, 2008

C# Hashes, StackOverflow, and SEO

By Winston ⋅ October 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I must give props to Jeff Atwood and the StackOverflow guys.  I hadn’t actually checked it out, but I read CodingHorror a lot, and recently (as in yesterday, in fact) read an entry there about what Jeff has learned about SEO.  It wasn’t very sophisticated in an SEO sense, and basically boiled down to “yay [...]

URL Rewriting and ASP.NET Browsers - is a beating

By Winston ⋅ October 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

We’re lucky we have an error handler in our web app that emails us about every single unhandled error, or we wouldn’t know about this one at all.
The dreaded “cannot use leading .. to exit …” error.  If you do URL rewriting with ASP.NET, you probably see this a lot.  If you don’t, it’s probably [...]

C# Namespace Paths are Annoying

By Winston ⋅ October 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m really annoyed by the way C# handles partial namespace references.  Mainly because I never want to do it.  I always specify the full namespace (albeit in a using clause at the top).  Sometimes it makes sense to alias a namespace like we do with NHMA = NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes.
I just never have a need to reference [...]

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