Inspector Gadget

Ladies and gentlemen!
Tonight it gives me great pleasure to announce a brand new Windows Vista Sidebar gadget… Inspector Gadget!

Inspector Gadget is perhaps the dumbest sidebar gadget of all time, if I do say so myself. It simply runs whatever you type in the text box - similar to the Run start menu button.
You can download […]

ASP.NET FormsAuthentication.Authenticate always returns false?

I just bumped into the most peculiar ASP.NET behavior.
I have a very simple ASP.NET web site, which is using Forms authentication, with the usernames and passwords hard-coded into the web.config file:
<authentication mode=”Forms”>
<forms loginUrl=”Login.aspx”>
<credentials>
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Finding out which process is hogging a port…

A few minutes ago I rebooted my laptop for the first time in a few days. I’m doing some ASP.NET stuff at the moment, and I launched my browser to connect to a local website at http://localhost.
For some reason, I got an HTTP 404 error. “That’s a little strange”, thought I, so I launched the […]

What a great week!

Just a short update. This past week or so has been the best in a long time for me. Here’s just some of the great things that have happened:

I was on Daily Grind 885.
I published my delegates and business rules article on the Code Project. This is the first technical article I’ve ever written, and […]

Paul@Readify

Yep, I’m now a Readifarian!