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Always Get Better
http://www.alwaysgetbetter.com/blog/
Always Get Better is a technical blog for the well-rounded programmer. My goal with this site is to help other programmers become better and more knowledgeable at what they do.
- Author: AlwaysGetBetter
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Recent Posts
The 8 Month Mark
Since this blog has been running for the past 8 months, I thought I might take a step back and consider the journey so far. How did my original expectations stack up against reality? The first thing that struck me was how quickly people found my wo...
JavaScript & Ajax Visual Quickstart Guide
One day last year my client decided we needed to incorporate AJAX into their web site. AJAX was considered the big thing, and by not having “it” we were going to fall behind some of our competitors. “What do you want to enhance u...
Internet Explorer URL Character Limit is 2,083
Today I learned that Internet Explorer limits the site of GET requests to 2,083 characters. Any URL longer than this cannot be used by the web browser. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427 I can’t help but wonder where that number comes fro...
ASP.NET: A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client
This error is caused by the presence of HTML in the fields returned by a form post. In many cases, for example page management tools, you may want to allow your users to enter text formatted with HTML. By default, ASP.NET doesn’t like this....
What I Learned from MUDs
The first bit of code I ever worked on was ROM 2.4, a text-based MUD server written in C. At the time I didn’t know the first thing about programming, but through trial and error I was able to feel my way around the source code and slowly lea...
