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Monthly Archives August 2008

More success converting from CommunityServer to vBulletin

Back in July, I wrote about my initial experiences converting from CommunityServer to vBulletin. At the time of that post, I was importing users, forums, and threads, but had issues importing posts. Well, I’m happy to say I’ve had more success since then.
Together with the help of Jerry (a member of the vBulletin team), we’ve [...]

Posted 26 August 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments (10)

Lutz Roeder’s .Net Reflector is now Red Gate’s .Net Reflector

I needed to download Lutz Roeder’s .Net Reflector on a new machine, so I did a Google search, and saw this as the first item listed:

.NET Reflector
A CLR class browser with XML documentation viewer, type search, disassembler and C#/VB view.
Clicking on the link, I was taken to http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/ and read this:
Red Gate has recently acquired [...]

Posted 20 August 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)

Building with NAnt (and NUnit, and NCover, and NCoverExplorer)

A while back, I wrote a blog post, A quick introduction to Nant, which gave, well, a quick introduction to building C# libraries using NAnt.
Since then, I’ve been using NAnt to do a lot more — notably, to run unit tests and to report on test coverage (using NCover and NCoverExplorer). The usage is pretty [...]

Posted 18 August 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments (2)

Verizon: Pricing based on who you talk to

I recently ordered Verizion FIOS TV. Since I already have home phone and Internet service from Verizon, and wireless service from Verzion, I wanted to make sure I am getting a bundled rate. (They offer a bunch of “bundle prices”.) I went into an online chat with a Verizon customer representative. Here’s what happened.

var addthis_pub [...]

Posted 15 August 2008 § Personal ‡ Comments (0)

Identifying ASP pages vulnerable to SQL injection attacks using Microsoft’s Source Code Analyzer

Back in July 2008, Microsoft released the Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection, a “static code analysis tool for finding SQL Injection vulnerabilities in ASP code.” With the large number of SQL injection attacks occurring recently, running this tool against your ASP-based web sites is important. (It’s not the only thing you should do, but [...]

Posted 08 August 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)