Coder Journal

Wow that is a long title. Recently I have been looking for quick posts that I can put out each day to keep my blog relevant and also so I don’t feel like I am slacking off too much. Today I want to post about a little known feature in my .NET URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy (aka. Managed Fusion URL Rewriter) that I have developed in my spare time, mostly out of necessity for this blog and other projects I have worked on. Here is a quick run through of what it does. ...

So today it was brought to my attention that the design of my blog needed work. Since good design is a very subjective term, much like good programming: your program (n): a maze of non-sequiturs littered with clever-clever tricks and irrelevant comments. Compare MY PROGRAM. my program (n): a gem of algorithmic precision, offering the most sublime balance between compact, efficient coding on the one hand, and fully commented legibility for posterity on the other. Compare YOUR PROGRAM. ...

First off I would like to say that many of my readers are very intelligent, they picked up on a one line sentence in my last post about my new design and Coder Journal switching from Linux to Windows. I also moved hosts from GoDaddy’s shared Linux hosting. To GoDaddy’s virtual dedicated hosting on Windows. This proved difficult since URL Rewriting isn’t currently built in to IIS 6.0 like it is in Apache. I will talk a little about this setup in a later post. ...