Misc. Articles
Categorizing things can be hard, particularly for people as harebrained as I am. So in this section I present all the miscellaneous articles on this site; some have been among the most popular on Dot Net Perls. These articles may not even be related to programming.
C# cheat sheet
This cheet sheet contains a lot of very short examples of using the C# language. It is not in-depth; links to more detail are available on many of the examples.
Using Amazon CloudFront
This site has some information about Amazon CloudFront available. CloudFront is a content delivery network; Dot Net Perls uses CloudFront to host all its images and this improved performance for you significantly.
See Amazon CloudFront Tutorial.
Writing
I am a bit of a writing enthusiast and I read English grammar books for the sheer enjoyment of it. I measured the reading level of Dot Net Perls and also described my approach to writing articles on the site.
See Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.
Web browser benchmarks
I have published two very widely read web browser benchmarks on this site. I think they were on just about every technology news or social media site at one point. The benchmarks aren't perfect but they were popular at least. The first two articles linked below were the popular ones; the third one is not very interesting.
See Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison.
See Chrome and Firefox 3.5 Memory Usage.
See Firefox 3.5 Memory Usage Test.
Adobe programs
There are some tutorials on using Adobe Fireworks on this site. Adobe Fireworks is used as part of the development of the articles here so these tutorials were written as I learned how to use the tools.
See Adobe CS3 Rounded Corners Tutorial.
See Adobe Fireworks CS3 Resample Image.
Microsoft development programs
There are several articles about using Microsoft tools, such as Visual Studio, in this section. Please note that Visual Studio is also covered in a separate section on this site.
See Process Explorer and w3wp.exe in ASP.NET.
See FxCop Performance Warnings.
See ASP.NET Development Server .bat File.
Fiddler
This section presents a tutorial on the Fiddler HTTP debugging tool. This program can be used to diagnose problems with how your website responds to certain requests for pages, and much more.
See Fiddler Tool for HTTP Debugging.
My opinions
I have opinions about various subjects and tend to share them more than I should sometimes. Although I like to keep this website fact-oriented, these articles are more based on my opinions.
See Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and the C# Language.
Whitehouse
Another very popular article on this site was my analysis of the first website for Barack Obama's adminstration at whitehouse.gov. The information is out of date at this point. I got some interesting feedback from people in Washington, particularly some Republicans.
See whitehouse.gov Website Code.
Website implementation
I am sure you want to know how Dot Net Perls is implemented on the server and how it all works together. Unfortunately, the system I use is fragile and complicated in some ways, but it seems to work well in other ways.
See Website System (Dot Net Perls).
Syntactic sugar
Healthy diets should not include too much sugar, but syntactic sugar is acceptable because it just makes your code clearer. This article reveals some research I did on syntactic sugar.
Back button
I wrote this article when I was getting some criticism about my website. I decided that if people don't like my website, they can just click the back button if they happen to arrive on it, and this will completely solve their problem. I do appreciate constructive criticism however.
Creating multiplication table [C#]
This is a silly article about how you can generate a multiplication table in the C# programming language. Though the article has a lot of stupid jokes, it also contains an accurate and effective implementation of the required method.
String ToString [C#]
Here, I demonstrate ways you can use the ToString method on the string type. This enables you to convert a string into a string. In other words, it does nothing. Actually, the ToString method is available to maintain consistency with the type hierarchy.