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John Peterson

John Peterson is the resident webmaster here at ASP 101. As such, you can "blame" him for the forum (the old one), the search (the old one that worked!), all the lessons, all but a couple of the samples, the majority of the tips, and anything else that he couldn't pin on someone else!

We thought it best to photograph John in his natural environment so as not to disturb him. Notice his pale features lit only by the light of his monitor!

He's currently playing the Xbox (or more accurately re-playing Halo and Max Payne in anticipation of Halo 2's release - which now that it's released is consuming so much time he hasn't updated this page in ages.) and spending his time away from work getting even more brainwashed by Microsoft.  ;)   He also enjoys occasionally giving away money playing poker, but we won't discuss that here.

John can be reached via email to john (at) asp101 (dot) com or via the site's Feedback form.

John's Contributions:

• "ASP 101's Year in Review - A Look Back At 2008"
• "A No-Frills Text File Editor"
• "Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Launch Event"
• "Support for Cascading Style Sheets in Visual Studio 2008"
• "ASP 101's Year in Review - A Look Back At 2007"
• "Reading ASP.NET Application Settings From Web.config Using Classic ASP"
• A Review of "Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB, 2nd Edition" from SitePoint
• "Adding Items to a Data-Bound DropDownList On The Fly in ASP.NET 2.0"
• "Microsoft Expression Web Designer Community Technology Preview 1"
• "An Overview of the New Caching Features in ASP.NET 2.0"
• "ASP 101's Year in Review - A Look Back At 2005"
• "Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 April CTP"
• "ASP 101's Year in Review - A Look Back At 2004"
• "Server-Side Printing to a Networked Printer from ASP"
• "ASP.NET 2.0 Compilation Model and Directory Naming Changes"
• "Introduction to Inheritance in ASP.NET"
• "Using Template Files to Simplify Text Formatting in ASP"
• "ASP.NET Webcast Series"
• "Important Information About an ASP.NET Vulnerability"
• "An ASP.NET RSS Feed Reader"
• "A Sneak Peek at Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (Beta 1)"
• A Review of "Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET" from SitePoint
• "Server-Side Printing from ASP"
• "A MegaTokyo RSS Feed Reader"
• "Microsoft Releases the ASP.NET Resource Kit"
• "Creating and Using Objects"
• "Match.com Halves Server Farm, Doubles Speed with ASP.NET"
• "The ASP.NET Repeater Web Server Control"
• "Using Index Server to Search Your Web Site - Noise Words"
• "Converting Our "Tell A Friend" Sample to an ASP.NET User Control"
• "ASP 101's Year in Review - A Look Back At 2003"
• "Expiration Date Calculator"
• "Microsoft's ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant"
• "Some Very Early Information About ASP.NET 2.0"
• "A Look at Microsoft's "Web Data Administrator""
• "Hurricane Isabel Takes Its Toll on ASP 101"
• "A Simple Method for Caching HTTP Requests"
• "Tips for Using Visual Studio 6 (not .NET) on Windows XP"
• "A Sneak Peek at Visual Studio 2004 (aka. "Whidbey")"
• "Microsoft Releases the Java Language Conversion Assistant 2.0"
• "The ASP.NET Web Matrix Project - Version 0.6"
• "What's New in Windows Server 2003 - IIS 6"
• A Review of "ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start" from Sams Publishing
• "Tips for Working with Classic ASP in Visual Studio.NET"
• "Windows Server 2003 & VS.NET 2003 Launch Event"
• "Using Index Server to Search Your Web Site - Part II"
• "A Simple Text File Reading User Control"
• "A Review of "Professional ASP.NET Web Forms Techniques" from Wrox Press"
• "The "Slammer" Worm - Are You Patched?"
• "Using Index Server to Search Your Web Site - Part I"
• "A Review of "ASP.NET Distributed Data Applications" from Wrox Press"
• "ASP Duplicate File Finder"
• "Microsoft Releases the ASP.NET Forums (Version 1)"
• "Microsoft Announces "Everett""
• ".NET Framework Service Pack 2"
• "Caching"
• "Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix Project - Version 0.5"
• "Microsoft's "Moving to ASP.NET" Event"
• "A Quick Look at XCompress"
• "Generating Text Images on the Fly with ASP.NET"
• "Sending Email Via an External SMTP Server Using CDO"
• "Microsoft .NET Speech SDK Beta Is Now Available"
• "A Sneak Peek of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX"
• "A Sneak Peek of Microsoft Windows .NET Server"
• "User Controls"
• "Using ASP.NET Code-Behind Without Visual Studio"
• "ASP.NET Developer Conference & Expo - Spring 2002"
• "Migrating to ASP.NET"
• "Form Validation"
• "Form Viewstate"
• "The Visual Studio.net Launch in D.C."
• "Web Server Controls"
• "When Sessions End - Once And For All!"
• "HTML Server Controls"
• "Writing Your First ASP.NET Page"
• "ASP 101's ASP.NET Test Server"
• "Installing ASP.NET"
• "Getting Scripts to Run on a Schedule"
• "A Look at MSXML 4.0 RTM"
• "A Review of Flicks Software's Titan - Application Firewall for IIS"
• "An SMTP Service Directory Reader"
• "A Review of XTune 2.0"
• "An ASP Image Browser (and Killer!)"
• "How to Randomize Practically Anything"
• "Building an ASP.NET App: John's DVD Catalog"
• "What's in an ADO Connection String?"
• "Macromedia Gets It Right With Dreamweaver UltraDev 4.0"
• "The Top 10 ASP Links @ microsoft.com"
• "Output Performance - String Building vs. Response.Write"
• "An Overview of Cookie Detection in ASP (with Code!)"
• "Using Type Libraries Instead of Adovbs.inc"
• "What is Adovbs.inc and Why Do I Need It?"
• "Building a Simple Page Caching System"
• "An Overview of ASP.NET"
• "A Scripter's View of Dreamweaver UltraDev 1.0"
• "Who Are Those Active Users?"
• "Server-Side Caching Options"
• "Building a Link Tracker"
• "Review of Vertigo Training's "Building Successful Solutions with Microsoft Windows DNA 2000""
• "Applications, Sessions, and Global.asa"
• "Counting Active Users"
• "Where Do All These Paths Lead?!?"
• "The ASP 101 Discussion Forum" Article
• That should keep you busy for a while...