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Debug your javascript in style

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in coding, web | No Comments »

So basically today I wanted to plug a plug-in (no pun intended) that I have really found to be invaluable to debug javascript.  The plug-in is firebug for FireFox.  In my recent dive into Dojo words cannot describe how convenient and ...

My first thoughts on Dojo

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in coding, web | No Comments »

There is a little known (to me) javascript library out there called Dojo I dove into this week.  Basically it is a massive open source javascript library focused on UI and AJAX.  So visiting their website(very nicely done btw) and ...

Microsoft IIS blamed for mass SQL injection attacks

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in coding, web | No Comments »

So in the past week slashdot has made two post over this including many other sites.  Apparently there is a bot running the net attempting sql injection on a specific brand of sites.  Nothing to write home about correct?  This one ...

ASPimage to Imageglue Wrapper class

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 Posted in coding | 3 Comments »

Well, I have talked about it for 3 weeks now, here it is.  I am releasing my Imageglue wrapper class for ASPimage.dll.  This is near complete replacement for aspimage.dll.  Please read my previous post on the issue regarding W3wp.exe and dllhost.exe ...

Javascript 2.0

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 Posted in coding | No Comments »

Jeremy Martin posted up a nice run down of the proposed Javascript 2.0 spec: Well I suppose it's an undeniable fact about us programmer-types - every now and then we just can't help but get excited about something really nerdy. For ...

AspImage to ImageGlue conversion done

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in coding | 1 Comment »

So after a good hard week of coding on my own time.  I am happy to say our primary website at work has been converted from ASPimage over to Imageglue.  Without going into specifics this is the core of the ...

Optimizing an image cropping algorithm

Saturday, March 1st, 2008 Posted in coding | No Comments »

In my impending migration from aspimage.dll to a more efficient (crash free) image component I have discovered a grave shortfall of imageglue for asp classic.  There is one particular operation my code must perform that must be used.  That simple ...

An alternative to ASPimage w3wp.exe crashing

Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in coding | 2 Comments »

Aspimage.dll is a com component written by a company called serverobjects.  As best I can tell they are selling a product but not offering any support for it whatsoever.  As such their support email even bounces.  It just so happens ...