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Category Archives: Software Development
PHP for ASP.NET developers (part 3)
Now that the basics have been covered in the previous two posts, I’ll continue with some thing a bit more useful… writing some logic. Conditional Statements In PHP the conditional operators are pretty much the same as in C#, however … Continue reading
PHP for ASP.NET Developers (part 2)
In my previous post on PHP for ASP.NET Developers, I introduced the basics of how to set up a PHP environment and started showing the differences between PHP’s way of doing things from an ASP.NET developer’s perspective. In this post, … Continue reading
PHP for ASP.NET Developers (part 1)
For some reason that I can’t even explain to myself, I decided it would be a good idea to learn PHP. It is apparently used on roughly 60% of web sites, so it is certainly popular. Quick Start – Install … Continue reading
Tip-of-the-day: Columns in CSS
The CSS Multi-column layout module is a Candidate Recommendation that allows CSS to specify various aspects of column layout for page flow. It has some implementations in Chrome and FireFox but it does not work in IE yet. (I’ve not … Continue reading
Checking for NULL using Entity Framework
Here is a curious gotcha using the Entity Framework: If you are filtering on a value that may be null then you may not be getting back the results you expect. For example, if you do something like this: var … Continue reading
Handling bounces on Amazon SES
If you send to an email that does not exist, Amazon SES will perform some handling of the bounce before passing the details on to you. When you send email through Amazon SES you may notice that the email arrives … Continue reading
Verifying Senders with Amazon SES
I’ve already written a couple of pieces about Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) on sending Email and sending emails with attachments. Why do you have to verify senders? It is important to note that while in development mode you have … Continue reading
Sending more than a basic email with Amazon SES
Previously, I wrote about getting started with Amazon’s Simple Email Service, and I included details of how to send a basic email. The SendEmail method is excellent at sending basic emails with HTML or Text bodies. However, it doesn’t handle … Continue reading
Getting started with Amazon SES in .NET
Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) is a cloud based email service for sending bulk or transactional emails. It has a web based API and Amazon also provide a .NET wrapper (The AWS SDK for .NET) to access this (and other … Continue reading
Rewiring the users and logins in SQL Server
As a developer I find that I’m frequently backing up and restoring SQL Server databases between servers for development and testing purposes. However, each time I do the link between the login (a server concept) and the user (a per … Continue reading
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Tagged SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008
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