Articles by Joe Stagner

Quickstart: Building User-Configurable ASP.NET Web Parts

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:00:00 EST

For more than 20 years the software development industry has regarded reuse as the Holy Grail of software development. Programming language-based object-oriented features promised to deliver the significant benefits of increased productivity and cost-effectiveness by creating reusable objects, but in industry-wide practice OO itself hasn't delivered the results we hoped for.

Using an RSS Feed as a Content Service in ASP.NET

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:00:00 EDT

RSS is the technology driving the blogging craze that's sweeping the Internet, but it's far more than a blogging technology. It's a prime foundation on which to build 'service-oriented' applications.

Writing Apps That Fight Back

Fri, 20 May 2005 11:00:00 EDT

In the early days of networked applications, application security was as simple as running programs on a 'hardened box' behind a firewall. As general developer security IQ improved, we learned to write safer code, code that checked identities and principals, code that filtered user input.