My wonderful and amazing girlfriend now has a blog, over @ www.mandalei.com. If you have any interest in things Latin (the really old language, not the current culture) or the Greek / Roman world, or archaeology, or just random fun, be sure to check her out!
I just released version 6 of HttpCompress. This version includes some wonderfully more intelligent logic for determining when to write the headers that indicate that the response was compressed. As a result, Server.Transfer and the default exception reporting page in ASP.NET both work out of the box, though their responses are not compressed.
If you do .NET development, sometimes you have to drop down to the Win32 API to do your dirty work. One fun and exciting task when you have to do that is creating the PInvoke signature, which is fraught with peril. Thankfully, today I discovered pinvoke.net, a community site based around a wiki, which contains PInvoke signatures and associated gotchas. Truly a fantastic site for folks that have to do this kind of work, and it’s run by Adam Nathan, one of the bigger heads on the whole subject. Definitely a must see for any .NET dev.
I just uploaded a pretty major bugfix for v5 of HttpCompress. Turns out, the modification I made to the #ziplib library broke GZip compression, which in turn broke a number of older browsers that only support GZip. I’ve made a fix and reuploaded the v5 release. Just redownload it and replace your current install and everything should be peachy.
Looks like the alma mater is finally getting with the times and moving to a standards-compliant web site! I wonder if my old friends at Fry had anything to do with it?