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Download: Binary Release Download: Source Code Release Notes If you would like to find out more about the past releases please visit us at http://www.managedfusion.com/products/url-rewriter/release-notes.aspx Version 2.2 Added support for RewriteCond backreferences: These are backreferences of the form %N (1 <= N <= 9), which provide access to the grouped parts (again, in parentheses) of the pattern, from the last matched RewriteCond in the current set of conditions. Updated the logging output to be more readable.

I am not going to sit here and tell you who to vote for. But I do think it is important to get out and vote. If you need help finding your local precinct check out http://maps.google.com/vote.

I woke up this morning, showered, and checked Stack Overflow. Like I do every morning except this morning was different, Stack Overflow is down. What am I going to do to waste time on the computer today, now I really have to focus and have nothing to procrastinate on. I guess I am going to get more of my book done today. The weird thing I observed durring this rare outage is something the team probably wants to look in to. But I received the Yellow Screen of Death for my Firefox and Chrome browsers and their cute kitten for my IE browser. No matter how many times I refereshed and on how many different computers the same breakdown always happened. I have included a couple screen shots below to demonstrate. ...

Lately I have been neglecting my blog and not posting as often as I would have liked. I have had some very exciting things start up, at the begining of the summer, in my life that 6 months ago I would have said “no way is that going to happen.” These new adventures are the growing popularity of my blog, public speaking engagements, and a new book I was asked to write on ASP.NET MVC. Many of you picked up on the fact that I was writing a book based on my profile on the Philly.NET website, but I had officially announced it until this post. Many of my friends and family don’t even known I am writing a book so feel lucky in knowning you guys are some of the first people to know. ...

From what I can tell ASP.NET MVC Beta is just ASP.NET MVC PR5 with a couple bug fixes. So the good news is that the interface has finally solidified and we shouldn’t see anymore breaking changes before the final release. New features: MvcFutures.dll is not included in the beta (as it wouldn’t be included in the final release) The Beta installer installs the ASP.NET MVC assemblies (System.Web.Mvc.dll, System.Web.Routing.dll, and System.Web.Abstractions.dll) into the GAC. New Simple Membership Features in the Default Project Template New Filter Types for Authorization and Exception Handling New Output Cache Filter Changes for ASP.NET AJAX Namespaces in Routes New Interface for Enhanced Testability of TempData ActionInvoker Extensibility Improvements ViewDataDictionary (minor change) ViewEngine Improvements Helper Improvements Controller and Filter Improvements Bug fixes: ...

Wow has it really been 10 months since I first started using MVC. We have hit our first beta today. No information about what has changed, I will make sure to keep you all updated. But get it while it is hot: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a24d1e00-cd35-4f66-baa0-2362bdde0766 For everybody who hasn’t heard of MVC, how couldn’t you have heard about it now if you are a regular reader of my blog. But for all the new people visiting, here is an overview: ...

Scott Hanselman posted a survey (one little question) on what features do you use in the .NET framework: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SurveyTimeWhatNETFrameworkFeaturesDoYouUse.aspx If you havn’t already taken this quiz on Scott’s site, it is an easy one question quiz that will help out the .NET team.

For the longest time I have been wanting to add my Twitter status to my blog in place of my quote right under my blogs name in the header. (see above) Today I sat down and figured out what I needed to do to accomplish this and to my surprise it only took all of 10 minutes to complete. What you need in order to achieve the same for your own blog is: ...

I have been a huge fan of jQuery ever since I started working on IdeaPipe about 10 months ago. Mostly because of its simplistic DOM access using standard CSS syntax that we all have to learn anyways in the modern Web 2.0 world. In addition to the ease of finding elements on your page, it also works very nicely with other frameworks, I have used it in combination with Microsoft AJAX, Google’s GData JavaScript, and TinyMCE. ...

About a month ago I was experimenting with different ways to optimize my LINQ queries against the IdeaPipe database, in order to improve the read times. I wanted to improve the read times because our new Facebook Application was being launched and I anticipated an increase in our traffic to the server, which is used to host IdeaPipe and the Facebook Application component. Whenever I am trying to optimize SQL queries I fire up SQL Server Profiler and take a look at how the queries are performing. This helps me identify queries that are taking a longer time to execute and probably need to be looked at or re-thought. One of the queries that I identified as needing improvement was the following LINQ query: ...