One of the things I always forgot to add to my web applications is the Robots.txt file that Search Engines use to see what they should index. This file and site maps help make your site easier to navigate by the bots and let them know what is legal and what you would rather not have the published in their engines. I typically add any administrative pages or account pages even though they are protected by security, no need for the login page to be index if they sniff the link. So how do you add Robots.txt...
One of the great things about 2012 is that I am not in our office nearly 100% of the time during business hours. This is the first time I have been able to work from our office this much in about 4 years. In fact, we have moved three times during that four years and I have only averaged about 10-25% of my time in the office. This means I can actually setup my desk for development instead of business related tasks only. That means THREE MONITORS! My first reaction after a week with this setup: I never...
I want to first off thank the 45 members of the Kansas City .NET User Group who attended the presentation held last night. Myself, John, and Doug appreciate the dialog and questions about the topic of ASP.NET MVC Framework and hope to see more interest in the topic as it furthers in development at Microsoft. For those of you who couldn't make it or just want to see what the MVC Framework is all about, check out the samples and presentation located at the end of this post. Recap of A Model View Controller...