Here's a great Microsoft tool that deserves more attention than it gets. Fiddler is a free debugger software that hooks onto your Internet Explorer or Firefox browser. It allows a programmer to see the HTTP packets passing through the machine in a nicely arranged way. (asp.net, programming, perl, php)

I'm not a big fan when it comes to deploying source code on the Web server especially with the new Web Site projects that comes with VS.NET 2005. If your server got hacked before, you'll understand why source code on the server is a very bad idea. (c#, asp.net, php, perl, security, dotnetnuke)

See the list of high tech companies owned by Amazon, AOL, Ebay, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! It's impressive to see the list of the companies and products owned by a handful of media giants. The amount of money poured on to high tech businesses is simply astonishing. (business)

PowerShell was previously known as Microsoft Shell (code-named Monad). When the marketing people at Microsoft finally decided to rename Microsoft Shell to PowerShell, they also renamed the file extension to ".ps1". I was perplexed by the odd extension used, so I posted a message in protest to Microsoft. (windows, command line)

You normally want to catch all exceptions at the highest tier in code so that your program has the chance to display the error message to the user or log it to the appropriate location. Under ASP.NET, you can do so easily by overriding the Application_Error event in Global.asax file. In a windows form or console application, the equivalent global catch all is available by listening to the ThreadException and AppDomain UnhandledException events. (winform, .NET, C#, VB.NET)

One nice enhancement that came with .NET 2.0 is the ability to sort a custom collection quickly by making use of anonymous delegates and generics. In the past on .NET 1.1, you had to create a Comparer class implementing the IComparer interface. (ASP.NET)

There is a easy way to test your SMTP server from the Windows command line or Linux shell. SMTP runs on the well-known port 25. All you need is to connect to a specific port and send in a series of text commands.

It's common practice on the web to copy and paste a third party HTML code to add functionality to a page. To embed this kind of code is normally a breeze for even non-programmers. What appears to be easy is actually quite complicated to do on ASP.NET pages. The reason is because every ASP.NET page is wrapped in one big HTML Form.

One of my Windows desktop machines got infected with a Trojan virus. Since all my machines are connected in a network, the virus was able to spread and infect other hosts. I have already put together a backup system years ago so it was now time to review my recovery skills. (security, windows)

If you're a content writer or an SEO, here's a thing you need to understand about how the human brain works. Research shows that the brain does not read every letter in a word. Similarly, most readers will likely understand what a sentence means even if a couple of non-essential words are missing. (Common Sense)