I’ve had an enjoyable time getting down into a lot of gritty details about HTTP over the past year or so as I’ve worked on some webservices and a HTTP client tool for OS X. Every month, it seems like, I learn a little more about it based on the way my users use my [...]
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HTTP Message basics, and POSTing form data in Graphical HTTP Client
Posted by Spencer Uresk on September 4, 2011
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“The POST body isn’t working correctly! I add in something like name=spencer&age=29, but the server doesn’t get the parameters. Please fix your program!” After a few support requests and 1 one-star review related to this issue, I figured it was at the very least worth a deeper explanation. If you’ve googled this and are just [...]
Nl2br example in ASP.NET MVC 3
Posted by Spencer Uresk on June 5, 2011
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I’ve been playing around with ASP.NET 3.5 this weekend, and am building my first real website with it. Much to my horror, as a long-time Java developer, I’m finding it to be incredibly delightful to work with. C# feels like a slightly-improved version of Java, the tooling is pretty good (even though I’m still not [...]
Where do software bugs come from?
Posted by Spencer Uresk on January 31, 2011
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Last night, I came across this question on StackOverflow, essentially asking how you can be a zero-bug programmer. Many of the responses can be boiled down to “Don’t write any code.”, which is pretty much how I’d respond to that question. If you continue to throw ever-increasing amounts of time and money at a software [...]
Visual Studio 2010 – A bunch of code completion/navigation features I miss from Eclipse
Posted by Spencer Uresk on January 24, 2011
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For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a long-time Java developer (although I’ve spent plenty of time playing around with other languages and platforms). I’m also a big believer in developer tools – I create developer tools as part of my day job, and take advantage of tools as part of all the [...]