Justin Cooney

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I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

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  • URL Shortening is a Growing Security Risk

    URL shortening services are ubiquitous nowadays, and I agree that there are many benefits to having a short link rather than a long and sometimes meaningless URL. However the fact that links to potentially dangerous sites can now easily be obfusticated makes URL shortening a very dangerous thing when put into the hands of the…

  • showModalDialog Opens a New Window on Submit or location.href

    The ShowModalDialog function has been in use for a long time and is now part of the emerging HTML5 specification. Although there are many pro and con arguments for using using this function, the fact remains that it has been extensively used in past and it continues to serve a useful function under specific conditions.…

  • WebForms Declarative Data Binding using Eval & Bind

    I have been using Visual Studio’s Declarative WebForms programming model lately to quickly create Web-based form interfaces. As part of this process I have been making extensive use of control binding using the Eval() and Bind() statements, and in some cases even the old ASP Response.Write syntax. As part of my review, I will use this…