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Archive for May, 2006

NTLM in Firefox

May 18

Posted by Brett Veenstra in Programmer | No Comments

I mean I loved Firefox before this, but as is the case in the technology field, you sometimes miss great stuff!

Have a windows box that you want to do NTLM against in Firefox? Try this out!

  1. Type “about:config” in your FireFox Address Bar
  2. Edit the value for “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris”
  3. Add a comma separated list of values for the servers you want to NTLM against. For example (“localhost, us.mycompany.com”)

Just plain nuts. My last reason for using IE just vanished.

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ASP.NET Page event basics

May 17

Posted by Brett Veenstra in Programmer | No Comments

In ASP.NET 1.1 there are four major events that fire for the Page class (System.Web.UI.Page). Here’s a hack of an explanation:

  1. Init – page class is instantiated in ASP.NET worker process. Advisable to instantiate private members of your class here but hold off on much else as the web UI controls can get modified in later events
  2. Load – ControlTree is created, all PostBack data has already been posted to the controls, all ViewState has been processed, this is the place to rearrange controls, visibility and dynamically create controls
  3. PreRender – last chance to alter web controls – you cannot OVERRIDE this event
  4. Unload – output has been written, and you’re just doing cleanup now

For a detailed discussion into all ten, check out 4GuysFromRolla.com

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Browser War?

May 13

Posted by Brett Veenstra in Programmer | No Comments

It’s over dude…

Yeah, I’m a techno-elistist type… but when Firefox rips through pages without crashing, flickers and other IE “normalities”, it is SO OVER. I hope I can write software someday that flies like this thing!

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