The Latest:
.NET Image Manipulation (19 June 2009) - I was thinking about what I should post next. I frequently have to do a good bit of image manipulation, and I once wrote a nice little program that watermarks images, so I though I might share that next. While I'm working on it, here's a nice image manipulation tip: Check out the AForge.NET Framework. It has much more than excellent image libraries - you'll be impressed. At least I was! Released under the GNU LGPL, it may be a good choice for you. I use it for sharpening reduced images because I couldn't get good, consistent results with the built-in .NET tools. System.Drawing.Imaging does all the rest. Another tip: Rotate an image 180° twice to remove an embedded thumbnail to generate a new one.

Distance Calculator (05 June 2009) - Today I built a Distance Calculator based on zip codes. I subscribed to a Zip Code database from ZipCodeWorld for $40 USD. Used a bit of VB.NET code I found to figure distances based on latitude & longitude and did a little datatable magic to sort the data.

Session Management! (02 June 2009) - My session manager is working well. I'm planing to post the basic functionality as soon as I can generalize it. A sample login manager should probably be included, as they work best hand-in-hand. Uses SQL Server 2008.

New CMS! (31 May 2009) - I've been planning on re-writing my Content Management System (CMS) for a very long time and have finally started! It's different enough from everything else I've seen that it will hopefully be worthy of development. I've got some of the architecture running here. I've considered making an MVC version, but I'm a novice at MVC, so a standard ASP.NET web application will come first. Everything runs on .NET 3.5 & SQL Server 2005/2008. It can generate new pages (files) and/or content identified with a query parameter, utilizes web.config settings for easy setup, has XML & SQL versions, supports popular javascript libraries & custom modules, AJAX without the AJAX toolkit -and- skins, layout templates and other standard CMS features.

FedEx & UPS Tracking Links in a GridView (27 May 2009) - This job isn't very difficult, but I had to do a little research to get it working without signing up for accounts and using API tools, etc.