Category: .NET
Discovery of the Day
I'm a big fan of virtual directories. I like sharing assets across sites without having to duplicate a bunch of folders. Angela and I were doing some planning for a site and she asked if you created a Virtual Directory in IIS, what would happen if you also had a physical directory of the same name. Well it turns out that if you have a Virtual Directory defined in IIS, the server will completely ignore the contents of any physical directory in the same location. So if you had this:
assets wwwroot |--myassets (virtual directory pointing to assets above root) |--myassets (physical directory on the disk)
Then all files and folders in the physical myassets folder will be completely ignored.
Basecamp on KISS
Business Week has a great interview with one of the owners of 37Signals on their design philosophy and why it's a good idea to keep things simple.
Beyond Compare
Oh how I love Beyond Compare
It's saved large patches of my hair
It checks my files and keeps me sane
Without it my job would be a pain