Great news! Jeff Prosise is coming to Cork, Ireland to give a half day seminar for IT@Cork. [Thanks Jim for sending this on]
Clare Dillon’s Blog : Jeff Prosise coming to Cork!
On March 23rd, he will be focusing on ASP.NET AJAX, his latest expert topic. Rob will also be heading down for the occasion giving an update on some of Microsoft’s other web technologies and where they are being used today.
Tickets are 30 euro for IT@Cork members or 75 euro for non-members. You can find more information and register here:
http://www.itcork.ie/index.cfm?page=events&eventId=86
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In the recently released Visual Studio “Orcas” new code metrics are available to analyse your code. The metrics currently calculated are: Maintainability Index, Cyclomatic Complexity, Depth of Inheritance, Class Coupling, and Lines of Code. The metrics will help you determine areas in your codebase which still need work or refactoring.
The Visual Studio Code Analysis Team Blog : Announcing Visual Studio Code Metrics!
The Orcas release of Visual Studio is available for download as a Virtual PC image but beware the download is pretty large. Download Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas”
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You just know when Scott Guthrie posts something on his blog that you have got to read it because it is going to be top quality. In this post Scott writes about URL Rewriting so this would allow you to use URLs such as www.seandeasy.com/5-podcasts-that-every-net-developer-should-be-listening-to/ instead of www.seandeasy.com/?p=57 which both point to the same point.
Now this blog uses PHP on Apache and the URL Rewriting is achieved using mod_rewrite rules. Some of the benefits of the URLs after the URL rewriting are:
- More human friendly URLS
- More search engine friendly URLs – before search engine bots used to hate URLs with ?param= in them probably not so much an issue any more.
- Since the keywords are mentioned in the URL this helps increase your Google pagerank
I did some URL rewriting in ASP.NET 1.1 using a custom http handler. Scott writes about how to achieve URL rewriting in ASP.NET and goes on to say that in IIS7 it will be much easier to achieve full extensionless URL rewriting using a HttpModule. This will make it quite straight forward to have extension less URLs like http://www.seandeasy.com/5-podcasts-that-every-net-developer-should-be-listening-to/ under IIS.
In appears that on URL Rewriting, IIS is playing catch up with Apache.
Check out Scott’s post
Url Rewriting with ASP.NET
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