July 2006 - Posts

19 July 2006
SEO: Jollibee.com.ph Uses Black Hat Techniques
I found this from Isulong SEOPH blog which I am tracking down for quite sometime since SEO Philippines started their contest. Jolllibee's website violated Google's web master guidelines by using repeated keyworsd, hidden texts and doorway pages. Btyw, jollibee indeed uses earthworms on their patties... Read More...
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18 July 2006
ASP.NET: Manage configurations using XML serialization
There are times where the web.config's <app settings> cannot satisfy our requirements. This is the case in my project where the page layout and rendering logic depends on the xml configuration file. It reads the xml file, generate the data entry form header, footer, textboxes, dropdown lists, validators... Read More...
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18 July 2006
.NET: How To Improved Build Time
For a solution with multiple projects the build time usually took several minutes. Sometimes it’s not worth the wait ;(. Each library needs to be rebuild, update references, copied to bin directory of each that reference it. For asp.net web application additional overhead on copying the each references... Read More...
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18 July 2006
.NET: &quot;Lets build the framework first&quot;, wrong headed sentence?
"One of the most wrong-headed sentenced in all of software development is “let’s build the framework first, and then the application will be easy.” No, no, no. I’m never going to be a part of (or be the cause of) this exercise in stupidity ever again." I came across this post of Jeremy Miller at www... Read More...
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18 July 2006
.NET: What’s odd with the Odd
My major project now on version 6.0 and I was the one responsible (with jedi master) for most development decisions and low level design of this product. It is scheduled to be release this month, actually this 2 nd quarter. First deployment turns fine but I am still waiting if there are issues to be... Read More...
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18 July 2006
Usability: In Navigation, Left is best?
I found this on an email sent by friend from Philippine Usability Group (usability-ph) . Read More...
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18 July 2006
.NET: Do we really need to update applications automatically?
In connection to my previous post on ClickOnce, a question was raised to me. Do we really need to update the applications automatically? IMHO the answer lies on how well you maintain version of the applications. For diverse clients and versions released on each of them IMHO its smarter to consolidate... Read More...
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18 July 2006
.NET: How far will ClickOnce go
I came across a post on our local msdn where a poster wanted a automatically update applications deployed on several branches. He was eyeing on using ClickOnce technology. How I wish somebody from MSDN or Microsoft would deliver more complex deployment scenarios than they usually have. Something like... Read More...
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18 July 2006
ASP.NET: IE's Active Scripting Prevent PostBack
We already deployed my project into one of our first-adapter client and done with several platform tests and final function testing. This is an ASP.NET application so I am expecting zero-client configurations; a compatible browser is enough for the application to go operational. But weird thing happened... Read More...
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18 July 2006
ASP.NET: IE's XHTML1.1 Box Table Issue
What do you think is wrong with this html code? .cf { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; color: black; background: white; border-top: windowtext 0pt solid; padding-top: 0pt; border-left: windowtext 0pt solid; padding-left: 0pt; border-right: windowtext 0pt solid; padding-right: 0pt; border-bottom... Read More...
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18 July 2006
ASP.NET: Session objects lost intermittently with InProc
By default VS2005 template for web.config uses InProc SessionState mode. This may incur some issues when your computer is using antivirus software or some third party software that scans your files. I recently experienced intermittent lost of session objects because my session was being reset unexpectedly... Read More...
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