Raj Kaimal

Google Notebook was released yesterday - I think it is really cool to be able to access your notes from anywhere. They ought to extend it to allow users to access their browser bookmarks from anywhere.

If you are running Virtual Server and your Virtual Machine is having trouble obtaining an IP Address from your DHCP server, it could be because you have port security turned on on your switch.

As I look at the new www.live.com interface, a thought came to my mind. I think it would be cool if the very first time an Ajax application is loaded, the web server would collect all the information from whatever different sources (which can be cached on the webserver) and send it down instead of having different content areas that make individual requests while displaying "Loading...".

I don't get it. When I need to logon to a secure site, I expect to see a https url before I enter my username and password. All the sites listed below (except Citibank) prompt you for the user name and password on a http page and it says that the information will be posted via https. Even though what they claim is correct, I do not feel comfortable with the approach. How do I know that the http page I am looking at is spoofed or not? Check out these sites:

I read about this patent on digg a few minutes ago.

I was about to use the Logging Application Block of the Enterprise Library 2.0  when I found out about the built in Health Monitoring feature in ASP.net 2.0. IMHO, the Logging block is great for an enterprise app but might be overkill for smaller apps.

Just a random thought. Wouldn’t it be nice if the XmlSiteMapProvider or SiteMapDataSource had a CheckAccessibility event? All we would have to do is handle this event and set a property that determines if the node should be displayed or not.

This way, we can control a nodes visibility using some custom rules rather than role based visibility.

The provider would look like this