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Is it worth paying for an ASP.NET app these days?
I've spent some reasonable time on POP Forums v8 lately, after, what, talking about it for two years? I have a big old feature list that I'd like to tackle, but I've got it pretty close to feature equivalent at least. I've got a build here with lots-o-data to mess around with. It's nothing ground breaking in terms of features, though I've added quite a bit of stuff on the back end in terms of logging and security features. The interim goal was to get it to a place I could manage it, given a couple of years of experience in the world.
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PowerPoint ain't got nothin' on Keynote, the culture gap
That $100 store credit from Apple for my iPhone has been burning a hole in my pocket now for awhile, so I strolled into church, er, the Apple Store to play with Keynote, the presentation tool and approximate competitor to PowerPoint.
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How do you get a true singleton in an ASP.NET app?
Something that has troubled me for awhile is that I can't quite figure out how to create a true singleton in an ASP.NET application. In other words, an object that lives in just once place, period. I thought that you could do this via an HttpModule, but when you debug you'll find that there is in fact more than one instance of the module.
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Apple is not the new Microsoft
I noticed the PC World editorial proclaiming that Apple was the new Microsoft (via this blog), and I swear the mainstream press will print anything these days.