Web design, SQL, and .NET for the young, up-and-coming developer Dot Net Yuppie

TechBuyingGuide.com is a new website that is changing the way that consumers purchase computers online.

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Simple .NET Benchmarking

March 21st, 2010

While code optimization is a controversial topic, curiosity often gets the best of me and I want to know which method of doing something in VB.NET is more efficient.

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In an effort to garner web design inspiration, I frequently visit CSS galleries to increase my design vocabulary and see new, cutting-edge design trends. Often times, however, these websites are consistently making the same amateur design mistakes that shouldn’t ever be done by gallery-worthy web designs.

  1. Thou shalt preload all CSS:hover images If you’re willing to put the time into changing an image on :hover, isn’t it worth your time to do it right? Often, users won’t even notice your :hover efforts because it’ll take too long to load a new image on-demand. To read more about preloading background images, check out Please preload your CSS images
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I recently switched from Apache/Linux to IIS/Windows in order to develop ASP.NET applications on my shared web host (ixwebhosting.com). Unfortunately, IIS6 doesn’t support WordPress permalinks because it doesn’t have the ability to use mod_rewrite unless you install a third-party ISAPI filter. Because I’m on a shared hosting plan, I don’t have access to install ISAPI filters and my web host won’t install them for me.

There are a few different 404 page-based hacks that allow you to retain your permalinks, even with IIS. The most popular fix, which worked fine for me, was Keyboard Face’s IIS Permalink Fix. I used his fix, and a GET variable fix from Ikailo to make a PHP-based 404 page that redirects all 404 pages back into WordPress, thereby bypassing the need for mod_redirect.

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Maki, the author of an internet marketing and social media blog called Dosh Dosh, recently revamped his website with a completely new design, which received both positive and negative feedback on his blog post announcing the new theme. Being a long-term subscriber of his website, I would like to provide a review of his new theme. As a developer, I’ve found that one of the best ways to improve my own skills is to evaluate the skills of others.

If you haven’t heard of DoshDosh.com, I highly encourage you to visit — he has phenomenal content related to blogging, freelancing, marketing, etc. that would be extremely useful for any web developer.

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