April 2009

The much anticipated announcement of Google's launch of their Analytics API has become reality.  Prior to the API release, people who required their analytics data to be displayed elsewhere had to resort to screen scraping hacks, emailing reports to yourself, using the Export to Excel functionality, which aren't even close to ideal.  Now there's a clean and clear route.

If you want to pass a name/value collection of untyped data to a webservice with JSON, do it like this guys, Joost van Schaik, says:

If you are using the web.config to determine security for aspx pages, you may have noticed that you don’t get the chance to determine whether a security exception has been thrown.  The user will simply be return to the login page with a ReturnUrl query string pointing back to the url they were trying to access.

Now that Agility CMS supports Amazon S3, we will start storing more and more data on this cloud storage environment.  Here are some useful tools to help access your S3 data.  You can use any of these tools alone or with your your Agility account.

I have just been editing the project templates to enable HTML in the description field.  As it turns out, the description field is locked down as plain text.

Love it:

• Generate a class structure based on database tables.
• Makes coding transactions really easy and seamless.
• Makes working with store procedures more like methods.
• Makes it easier to validate database field names at compile-time.