HP Mini 1033 Memory Upgrade
Monday, June 15, 2009, 08:02 AM - XP
I upgraded the memory in my Mini from 1gb to 2gb, and it nearly doubled my battery life! Before the upgrade I was running at just over 2 hours of battery time on a full charge, and my disk swap rates were through the roof. Now, after the upgrade, the hard drive is much more relaxed, and I get nearly 4 hours on a full charge.

Not too shabby for a $29 upgrade if you ask me!

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Mini is back ONLINE!!
Monday, June 15, 2009, 07:52 AM - Windows, Home Server, DesertCodeCamp
As you may already know, my HP Mini (the one that I had been doing my PIC development on) crashed 30 minutes before my presentation at DesertCodeCamp and I had to "wing it". Luckily, I had set up the Windows Home Server (WHS) that I bought for Sherry for Christmas on Wednesday night, and the automatic backup had created a couple of backups.

I loaded the PC Recovery cd onto a bootable USB key, and then spent all day messing around with the drivers before I finally found the right LAN driver. Once I got the correct driver in place, everything came together and the Mini restored the backup in about 30 minutes, and I was right back where I was on friday night.

Windows home server saved me, and I will get the code up from my CodeCamp session ASAP.

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Scott Guthrie is Coming Again!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 02:17 PM - Programming, .NET, ASPX
Scott Guthrie, .net power ranger and slayer of dragons, is coming to Phoenix again on May 26, 2009! Make sure you click "Order Now" below (yes it's still free), head on over, and get signed up!



You don't want to miss this!

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Forcing HTTPS
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 12:49 PM - Programming, .NET, C#, ASPX
I was wondering recently how to force the pages of my websites to always go to SSL, and found this little beauty. Stick it in your base page a viola, you are good to go. Oh yeah, want to debug on your local machine, just set requireSSL to false in your forms authentication block (just don't forget to set it back for production!) 


protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

    if (FormsAuthentication.RequireSSL == true){

      if (HttpContext.Current.Request.IsSecureConnection == false){

Response.Redirect(Request.Url.ToString().Replace("http:","https:"));

      }

    }

}


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Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities in .NET Configuration Files
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 03:33 PM - .NET, ASPX
This article on the Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities in .NET Configuration Files has some great information on things that I know I tend to forget or enable to make development easier, only to make it easier for hackers to take my site down. Definitely a good read.

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