SSL is the standard protocol to secure communications of web sites and applications. If you are developing your application using ASP.NET on a windows server, making the necessary configurations for SSL is not very difficult.

Unfortunately, while trying to accomplish this task at work, I discovered there isn’t one good source of information to get the whole job done.

In this series of (about) three posts I will try to get you up to speed on everything you need to do and how it’s done.

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Here’s a look at how attempts to measure quality in three seemingly unrelated scenarios affect the results of what is measured, , and what can we do about it.

We’ll start with measuring in the software development process. Joel often claims that introducing metrics into software development usually does not work. That’s because programmers are smart enough to work around the metric, optimizing the specific thing that is being measured, with the end product not necessarily improving. For example: when you say that you measure programmers by the amount of bugs that are found in their code, they work out a way to get bug reports from QA without submitting them to the bug tracking software or just don’t accept bugs as bugs instead of fixing them.

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Sometimes it’s amazing to realize how total is Google’s domination in web 2.0 type apps. They have everything. I didn’t even know they have a notebook app. Or an html builder(which is a free hosting service as well).

And then in a review of web 2.0 apps Google gets picked as the top app in almost every category.

Part of the reason for such domination is that they have a broad offering. So most people are already their users. I have a gmail account. So now when they roll out some new service, I can just login with my existing gmail account and voila, I can use the new app. So my barrier to entry is extremely low. It’s easy to test their new app. If it’s good (that’s another important issue) - I become a user.

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Summary: In this short article I will describe the creation of a Visual Studio.NET 2005 macro that speeds up the process of adding localizable controls to ASP.NET web pages, briefly touching on the subjects of ASP.NET localization, regular expressions and world peace.

Not really world peace.

I will assume you are familiar with writing ASP.NET pages and working with regular expressions.

Intro on ASP.NET Globalization

Globalization is the process of building an application in a way that it’s GUI can appear in diferrent languages and cultural formats. ASP.NET 2.0 has some mechanisms that simplify building globalized apps with (relatively) little hassle.

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What’s this business with Narnia anyway? Am I supposed to know what it is? Is this like the three musketeers or something? Or is it the new Harry Potter?

Am I too old for this? Or too young?

What’s going on? I totally missed it.

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Always ready. Motto of the Soviet Pioneers Youth Organization_._

My Official Packing List (Microft Excel 2003 based, of course) contains exactly 62 items.

Here, as a free-of-charge pashabitz.com service, I provide a pictorial overview of some of the most important, must-have items for your next South America journey. With commentary, by me.

                    

South American Handbook 2005, a.k.a. The Holy Bible (pictured left). Don’t leave your El Calafate dacha without it. If you don’t know Pucon from Bacon, start here. Also wonderful for holding out doors when it’s windy and for making chairs for smaller children higher so they (the children) can reach the table.

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I’ve been telling everyone who’s willing to hear for a while now, that I’m sure that despite all the latest hype, Barca will not win the Champions League this year, that they’ll lose to either Chelsea or Liverpool, and that one of the last two will win it all eventually, probably Liverpool.

The first reason is that I had a strong gut feeling about it.

But like they say where I work, “‘Gut Feeling’ is a name of a fish, and they eat that too”. Or something.

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Holy cow, this is why I wouldn’t put an internet connection where I work.

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Amazing site. Just scroll down.

And the Norwegians say that Swedes are dumb.

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Check out this 360 commercial on Google Videos. It got banned by MS lawyers.

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