Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.
1 min read Server-side

After I wrote about a HTTP compression module in ASP.NET 2.0 one of my colleagues pointed out that the Deflate compression is faster than GZip. Because the HTTP compression module chooses GZip over Deflate if the browser...

2 min read Random thoughts

I remember when ASP.NET 2.0 beta 1 was released about 2 years ago and I eagerly tried it out. The first thing that struck me as strange was the new application folders like App_Code, App_Data, and App_Themes etc. They...

2 min read Random thoughts

Have you ever heard the saying “If you don’t know where to look, don’t look at all”? Think about this saying and coding. If a piece of code somewhere in the system is causing an error, don’t split the whole thing apart...

2 min read ASP.NET

There are two reasons why it is desirable to do so. The first is for letting search engines see more of your content rather than the big portion of ViewState many sites have. The other is perceived rendering time, which...

2 min read Security

On a website with the ability for users to logon, it is a good idea to have some sort of password policy. The most widely used contains minimum requirements for the length of the password and that the individual...

1 min read Server-side

Today I had to add some functionality to an already existing class library. In there were a internal virtual method that I thought were supposed to be protected virtual. To no big surprise, I couldn’t compile after...

2 min read ASP.NET , Server-side

The W3C has introduced an API for their HTML Validator. It is not a SOAP web service, but it does return XML that can be parsed, so now you have the ability to incorporate validation to any web application, Windows...

1 min read Client-side

I recently realized that you can add more than one class to a single HTML element. This opens up to even more structured stylesheets and more code reuse. It’s a standard and has cross-browser support. You simply just...

2 min read Random thoughts

There is no doubt in my mind, that ASP.NET is the most powerful and versatile platform for web applications at the moment. By leveraging the .NET Framework you can do absolutely anything in no time, but is that power...

2 min read General

Office pranks are among the funniest and we’ve probably all done some of our own over the years. This time, my boss and I came up with a good one. Write an add-in for Windows Live Messenger that auto replies to all...