With the introduction of ASP.NET WebPages and the WebMatrix stack our team has really be focusing on making things simpler for the developer. Based on a lot of customer feedback one of the areas that we wanted to improve was the built in security in ASP.NET. So with this release we took that time to create a new built in (and default for ASP.NET WebPages) security provider. I say provider because the new stuff is... more
Today is an exciting day for the Coding QA Podcast! I am proud to announce that Coding QA has teamed up with TekPub to give-a-way some licenses for TekPub to our listeners. This has been in the works for some time now and we wanted to find some creative a way to give these licenses away. To us the standard send us an email and we will draw a name out of a hat just... more
Over the last year or so I have had the opportunity to help develop and shape a brand new framework that is, as of today, in its first ever public beta. I’d like to introduce you all to WebMatrix! WebMatrix is actually a group of products and frameworks all with the common goal of making web development simple and easy. A few of the pieces of WebMatrix have already been announced and some are never... more
One common operation that pretty much every website in the world does is either accepting, creating, editing, or displaying images. This could be something as simple as a user’s profile picture or as complex a full blown image gallery. Either way if you have every had implement these functionalities in a website you know that they are not the easiest thing to create. Well, here is where the WebPages team comes in to save the... more
This is one of those posts where I don’t talk about coding, sorry, but it’s still about technology so hopefully I don’t scare you guys off.</span> So what is this I want to talk about, well my podcast of course, Coding QA. Somewhere February last year (2009) I got the idea that I wanted to host my own podcast. I had been listening to various podcasts for awhile and thought it would be fun to... more