Tag: .NET/Visual Studio

Last week I passed along Google’s announcement that they now encrypt all cloud storage by default. I mentioned how this was following Amazon’s offerings of encryption for their S3 storage service. We have been comparing Amazon’s client-side and server-side encryption in Learning Tree’s Cloud Security Essentials course for some time, and now Google’s new service […]

As someone who works primarily with Microsoft technologies I was delighted to see the Amazon announcement yesterday that they are going to offer two additional options for developers. First, Amazon RDS is now going to include SQL Server in addition to MySQL and Oracle databases. SQL Server is available in a variety of versions on […]

I came across an interesting little validation problem on my current project. The site is for members only – and in order to become a member, you need to be nominated. You can provide either one or two nominators, but you must provide at least one. So how to force users to enter text in […]

Ever wanted to do a wildcard Search and Replace in Visual Studio? I don’t just mean finding things using wildcards, but selectively replacing part of what you find while leaving other parts untouched. I came across an example recently where I needed to do just that – and since what I discovered saved me an […]

Recently I’ve been needing to make a few tweaks to the hosting for my cocktailsrus project. It’s hosted on Amazon EC2, and until now I have been logging on to the Amazon console whenever I need to make changes. That’s not a great hardship, as it is (unsurprisingly) a well constructured and user friendly interface. […]