The iPhone.  It's a wonderful device.  It was a game changer.  3 years ago when it was released, it revolutionized the phone landscape.  For the first time, people had a portable digital convergence device.  (Ok, maybe it wasn't the first, maybe it wasn't the best, maybe it was just targeted at regular people instead of corporate users.)  For the first time, we could walk around with a web browser, a calendar, a music player, an address book, and really manage our lives on the go.  (Ok, I'll grant that BlackBerry defined that niche for business users, but the iPhone made...

From time to time, I have a need to debug a web site from a browser not installed on my current machine.  Safari/Mac or phone browsers are the quintessential example.  Granted, if it happens server-side, it happens for all browsers, and if it happens client-side, debugging server-side may not help.  But there's that one random time every now and again when this becomes quite important: debug server, client isn't on localhost.  Perhaps it's easier to replay the request from the browser where the problem happened rather than figure out how to simulate it locally.  Perhaps it's a weird combination of...

I love web services.  I love how easy it is to wire up a JavaScript client either through jQuery or through a ServiceProxy.  I love how I can point a .net client at a service, and I get strongly typed command parameters.  And my latest love of asmx services in C# is the SoapExtension.  A SoapExtension is a class that allows you to inspect outgoing or incoming services to get at the data involved.  I use them for logging service calls (frequency, duration, errors), and for rewriting output (fixed a "double html encoded" bug, remove whitespace, rewrite SoapFaults, etc). The technique...