It looks like there has been a severe issue on the SMTP server, so emails haven’t been sent in the latest weeks – I don’t know exactly since whe...

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When designing a web site, on of the problems I face with is how to choose colors. Usually I choose a base color, which is the predominant color used ...

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This is a good news for all of you, just like me, thinking that Zone Alarm is the best available firewall. I've been using ZoneAlarm for years, until I had to install Vista 64 on my Lenovo T61p, and discover that ZoneAlarm is not compatible. In fact, until now, ZoneAlarm was compatible with 32 bits platforms only.

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This is really funny.

I've reported thousands of spam emails to ISP and domain registrars, but this is the first time I get contacted by the spammer complaining with me because I waste my time filing complaints against him.

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I've been experiencing an extremely high build time on a windows mobile project targeted to compact framework 2.0 before finding out what was responsible of such slowness. Fortunately solving this problem is as easy as adding a line to a configuration file.

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Simple framework to run asp.net pages without a web server, useful for running self contained tests.

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When data are moved across a network the recipient might require a verification to ensure that data have not been modified after send. For example, in a client/server scenario where a client application sends some updates to a remote database via a web service, the web service might need to verify that data have not been modified while travelling across the network, either due to corruption or because somebody changed them. A simple way to implement such kind of verification is utilizing hashing.

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I know, this is not the first time I announce the development of a DNN SMS Module. But this time I really started its development, and I’m currently w...

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2009.01.30 - Updated in order to clarify about immutability.

The readonly modifier is used to declare an instance-specific constant data member which can be initialized in the class constructor and is not limited to compiler-time constants only.

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Today a friend of mine asked me how to cast from List<> to a custom MyCollection class, where MyCollection is derived from List<>. Is this possible?

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