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Chinese Magical Hard-Drive

A Russian friend of mine has posted this absolutely amazing story.

Happy Webmasters Day

While deploying a new build of our hosted help-desk I ran into a bunch of "not found" service pages... And then realized that it's the 4th of April!

ASP.NET Session: Caching Expiring Values

Another post for ASP.NET/C# developers reading this blog. If you think these posts do not belong here, please leave a comment, and I'll consider moving my development articles to a separate blog.

Pretty often I need to cache something in the Session object, and expire the stored value after, say, 5 minutes. Just like it would in the ASP.NET Cache storage.

But the session state has no expiration concept. And the Cache object - well, cache is not specific to a user-session, it's application-wide. So I created this tiny useful extension class for this. Hope the code explains itself:

Protecting your startup's server from attacks

Our server that powers the support ticket system was kinda hacked the other day. The attacker has obtained an FTP password for one of our servers and was able to download some stuff - thank God nothing critical...

Thank God Japan is well prepared

This could sound outrageous. This could sound awful and even offensive. Please forgive me for saying this. But.

KeyFreeze - free tool that locks keyboard and mouse

I have kids so I know what it's like, when they're having a Skype-talk with their grandparents - they keep accidentally pressing buttons, moving the mouse etc etc.

Macro Recorder is dead. Long live Macro Recorder!

It's been a while since I announced anything "official" on this blog, but this announcement is worth mentioning here.

Eat Your Own Dog Food [Mistakes I made #4]

This is the forth post in the "Mistakes I made" series, where I share the "donts" of my startup experience.

Email Disclaimers and the Environment

Today I got this short email message that contained 5-6 words and a huge disclaimer below it:

Quitting Your Fulltime Job [Mistakes I made #3]

This is the third post in the "Mistakes I made" series, where I share the "donts" of my startup experience.

The biggest mistake I ever made in my life as an entrepreneur was - not quitting my fulltime job in time. Even after Jitbit Software was making a four-times bigger income, I was still afraid to quit working for the big boss. Don't make that mistake.

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