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Protecting from SQL Injection in ASP.NET

Today a small post that I had in mind since some time... a quick-list of how to fortify against SQL Injection (and some more general best practices). You can do some javascript, client-side validations to avoid postbacks, but rembember: never, ever trust...

Google Picasa API: No way to get an image direct URL?

After spending some hours of fighting with the Google Picasa API (with the help of PedroA ), we have found that appears to be no way to get a photo URL to use for example as the src attribute of an <img> tag! Every URI on the GData query either...
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Cloning the Twitter badge with Javascript & new subdomain

The night from thursday to friday I slept few hours, but it was not because of going out. Pedro and I started to play with the Twitter API and a visual clone (using only javascript and HTML) I had already don of it's badge (which is a flash object...

To mock or not to mock, that is the question

I'm right now in the final weeks of the first phase of a project. We're very tight on schedule and having to leave a few features for the next phase. Although the project may be delayed because of the client, we want it to be because of them,...
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We were short for time and there were other interesting features to consider

Today I was building a mock of an ASP.NET Web Service for my current project, and I had some problems reading XML with spanish characters ('ñ' for example). I tried changing the <globalization> tag of the Web.Config to use an international...
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Why is PHP so successful?

I'm now hosting and maintaining a PHPBB forum boards for some friends, and each day I'm more angry with PHP. It's widely used, mostly in "open-source environments", because as it runs under Linux and supports MySQL,it's very common to see free hosting...
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Auto-attach to process aspnet_wp.exe on machine xxxxxxx failed. Error code 0x8013134b.

Just a quick post of a problem I've had. Receiving this message when trying to run an ASP.NET 1.1 website with debugging enabled? Auto-attach to process '[xxxx] aspnet_wp.exe' on machine 'xxxxxxx' failed. Error code 0x8013134b. In spanish: Error al asociar...
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ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 RTM Bug

For a few days, I'm doing some QA and testing at work of a web application that some of my companions have been developing. The application has typical technologies (SQL Server 2005, ASP.NET 2.0, a bit of Active Directory, master pages, ...) and it also...
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