Archive for February, 2007

Sign up to ask the Prime Minister to stop proposed restrictions regarding photography in public places

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

As a photography enthusiast (albeit a shamefully inactive one) I am incensed by the notion of restricting photography in public places. According to Simon Taylor, there are moves afoot in the UK to do just this and so he has started a petition against it.
As it turns out, there is no actual Bill being put […]

FormsAuthentication.Encrypt returns null

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

I was writing some ASP.NET authentication code last night and was trying to encrypt an authentication ticket using FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(). However, it kept returning null. I banged my head against the wall for about an hour and then went home. As so often happens, I came in in the morning and spotted the problem immediately: the [...]

WebDD 2007

Monday, February 5th, 2007

I went to WebDD on Saturday. It was quite an interesting event, indeed.
I attended several interesting sessions; from HTML microformats, to Ruby on Rails, to WPF and Microsoft Expression Blend.
Scott Guthrie was the man of the day: large throngs of developers vied for seats in his sessions. His talk on WPF/E was extremely interesting. [...]