I recently began my foray into ASP.net with a small project at work. Part of the project displays the ping response time. To accomplish this, I wanted to show the response time and use Bootstrap progress bars to indicate slow response times. In ColdFusion/Railo, this is simple enough with CFIF. However, in the code-behind world of ASP.net things are a bit more complicated. As a counterpoint ColdFusion doesn’t have a ping function baked in; even […]
Month: April 2014
Soup
Anyone who has spent more than five minutes in the world of IT has realized that we live in a world of alphabet soup. Filename extensions are just the start – from .asp to .zip. Then there are protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP and FTP. There’s an abbreviation for nearly everything and if the abbreviation doesn’t slow you down, the names of the technologies should. Fedora is not just a style of hat. Flash is not […]