Nik Kalyani's Irrationally Exuberant Musings on Technology
If you are using IIS7, it’s very easy to ensure that all requests always go to your preferred canonical URL. It’s a two step process:
Step 1: Install the UrlRewrite module for IIS: http://www.iis.net/expand/URLRewrite
Step 2: Add the following rule to your applications web.config file:
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear... 
In an increasingly hyper-competitive world, businesses look for every possible opportunity that can give them an edge over their competition. It’s no secret — businesses that innovate survive and win, and those that don’t either die, don’t grow or become the walking dead.
But innovation isn’t easy. In fact, it is a challenge for most companies. There are many reasons for this – corporate... 
In trying to use an existing VS2008 Project as a WebRole in a Windows Azure Solution, I discovered that the project did not appear as a candidate for selection from the Roles > Add > Web Role Project in solution menu. All the Azure documentation indicates that there is no special requirement for a web project to be a candidate for Azure, so I found this to be odd. The solution, as it turns out, is...
I posted a comment on Rick Strahl’s post on Server Errors when updating live Web applications online about a technique to update assemblies of live apps. I use the following approach:
1) I only keep the
assemblies unlikely to change in bin (i.e. components, third-party libs
etc.). I put my app’s assemblies into a sub-folder of bin and name the
folder according to the date (for example:...
Last month, a few days before my birthday, I decided that I needed to acquire some new skills and do some new things, while broadening my knowledge of things I already know (i.e. software development). More importantly, I wanted to not spend as much time in front of the computer. Instead of posting about it and then hoping to follow through, I decided to do the opposite. I started the process and am now... 
