Dombat

It's been a tough year at work. We've produced some great work yet in the eyes of a the big corporation none of that seems to matter. We've been battered by pension cuts, bonus cuts, benefit cuts, lack of resources and more. Big corporate

You're hard at work coding something cool when an Outlook notification pops up. "It's from the company it must be important" you say to yourself. Open it up. Oh, some random executive you've never heard of is leaving

There's a very easy way to encrypt sections of your web.config file. Before we find out how, we should ask why.

After I discovered Log Lizard and its awesome power to consume logs I soon found that I needed to configure more and more logs to make use of its full potential.

Request Filtering is a built-in security feature that was introduced in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, and replaces much of the functionality that was available through the UrlScan add-on for IIS 6.0

Log Parser Lizard is awesome To see why, read part 1 of my Log lizard blog here [http://www.dombat.co.uk/lizarding-about-with-log-parser-lizard-part-1/] It's pretty easy to use, but there are some things you might need to do out the box (such as change the default location of

I've been developing at work on a fairly nice Dell Laptop, quad core with 8Gb of Ram for the last couple of years. It was fine for running Visual Studio, SSMS and other tools at the same time but one thing was always slow. The disk. According to

Primarily, I feel as a reasonably seasoned developer that I need to try and make a mark in the profession and to stay ahead of the millions of faceless Ghost coders