Archive for September 14th, 2005

Blogging from Vodafone Live

September 14, 2005

I’ve just fixed several bugs in dasBlog that were preventing me from sending email via my phone (across Vodafone Live) direct to my blog. Vodafone were using non-standard casing in most of the email & attachment headers. Now I’m ready for my hols. Expect some pictures soon.

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Tags: Bugs
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Invalid characters in viewstate

September 14, 2005

I’ve been getting quite a few errors from dasBlog recently with invalid viewstate. After chatting with Scott Hanselman about possible causes, we’ve narrowed it down to two possiblities:

someone is tampering with my site
IIS is recycling whilst a postback occurs
The IIS recylcing sounds more likely, although I’m actually hosting this site on Windows 2000 with IIS5 [...]

Tags: IIS, Security
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Being more honest to customers

September 14, 2005

I think *all* developers could perhaps learn to be more honest with their end users. Take this example dialog from Microsoft Codename Max

But then again if sales & marketing didnt lie, we wouldnt need to?

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Tags: Codename, customers, example, honest, honesty, lie, marketing, Microsoft
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