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Introducing PowerShell Pages - Script Style HTML Rendering

Early in the web development world, scripting languages such as ASP or PHP were used to compose pages. Although this proved great for relatively static pages, the dynamic web, filled with rich applications called for a more powerful framework. Thus, frameworks like ASP.NET were born. ASP.NET solved a...

Posted to Andre de Cavaignac (Weblog) by mrdecav on 07-05-2008
Gatsb.com Now Open Source (A Case Study in Geotagging, Workflow Foundation, SMS/MMS Parsing)

After hosting Gatsb.com for a year, I have decided to open source the project. I haven't had time to promote it the way I wanted to promote it, and it therefore hasn't caught on with too many users. I've been busy with other projects, other (grander) ideas, and think that this one should...

Posted to Andre de Cavaignac (Weblog) by mrdecav on 06-14-2008
Ruby, From The Eyes of a C# .NET Developer

I recently got to playing with Ruby, something that some colleagues in Lab49 have been big fans for some time. I've never been a big fan of scripting languages, but have grown more of an appreciation for functional programming over the past several months and thought I would give it a try. Ruby is...

Posted to Andre de Cavaignac (Weblog) by mrdecav on 03-12-2008
.NET: Sending Email to Japanese Mobile Phones

Following up on my previous post about configuring ASP.NET for Japanese mobile phones, I thought I would write about another irritating aspect of developing for the Japanese mobile market: sending email to the fairly ubiquitous Japanese phone email system. Oddly enough, the most advanced Japanese phones...

Posted to Andre de Cavaignac (Weblog) by mrdecav on 06-12-2007
Security: Writing Password Protected Applications

Okay, here is something that is very frustrating to me. So many people do this incorrectly and it makes me feel insecure about giving my password to a website. The thing they don't do properly is password management . In this day of web and hobbiests calling themselves developers, we've found...

Posted to Andre de Cavaignac (Weblog) by mrdecav on 06-07-2007
Introducing Gatsb: Mobile photographs and social networking

I'm excited to announce the first public release of Gatsb will be going live today! Gatsb is a social and mobile networking app I've been meaning to build for a long time and have finally gotten around to. It allows its users to share photographs taken with a cellular phone with eachother through...

Posted to Andre de Cavaignac (Weblog) by mrdecav on 04-30-2007
Building and Running Web Applications

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has a really good article regarding the management and building of web applications . He makes some really good points about the common business sense that most developers overlook when trying to start a profitable web company. First of all, as not to spawn confusion,...

Posted to Andre de Cavaignac (Weblog) by mrdecav on 03-23-2007
Apple: Any Color You Want... As Long As Its Black

Apple is beginning to remind me of Ford's slogan back when the model-T came out, and I believe the Apple model is not only one for success in the consumer electronics market, but also one that other companies (such as Microsoft) must follow if it wants to compete. Microsoft has always prided itself on...

Posted to Andre de Cavaignac (Weblog) by mrdecav on 01-09-2007
Ramblings on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), WPF/E and the Direction of Microsoft

Reading through the WPF architecture documents on MSDN and MSDN blogs turned up some interesting hints about the overall direction of WPF and Microsoft. As the web matures and bandwidth increases, it is becoming ever more apparent that "mainframe" computing is back in style. Currently, Google takes the...

Posted to Andre de Cavaignac (Weblog) by mrdecav on 11-24-2006
Running Zune on Vista!

UPDATE: I've seen alot of people searching for how to run Zune on Vista, long after Vista was released. You can run Zune on Vista, and if you're having trouble, go download the latest player software at http://www.zune.net . So it is possible! Zune can run and sync on Vista. There are some minor...

Posted to Andre de Cavaignac (Weblog) by mrdecav on 11-17-2006

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