Just noticed this link in a post on Kent Sharkeys blog. The article by Scott Mitchellcovers various methods of making ASP.NET 1.1 based sites conform to WAI accessibility guidelines (or US Section 508 if you prefer :-)). It is still stunningly annoying (and…
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Should mention I suppose the I lied in yesterdays post on threading using .NET...mea cupla :-). In that post I mentioned using delegates for multi-threading and said that you always had to use EndInvoke to avoid a memory leak...well not quite, what i actually…
This is a common puzzler for people new to .NET (who aren't in the US!), just how do you parse a DateTime to be correct for your culture? Answer, pretty easily...the DateTime.Parse has an overload which accepts an IFormatProvider, so this will let you parse a…
I found some really interesting articles on the new ASPNETResources.com site, including stuff on Doctypes which was pretty good and tips on getting CSS2 Intellisense support in VS.NET - worth keeping an eye on how this site develops methinks! Also a…
I have a tendency to forget that people don't necessarily know everything (in counselling we called it "contextual framing" - basically aligning your mindset with that of the person you're counselling). With this in mind, here's a simple one which I forgot…
OK, terribly documented, but it works...this is just the source for a little HttpModule which tracks hits to a .TEXT blog - pretty simple but should give anyone who wants to do it a start. I'll post a more complete version at some point (mainly just want to…
Via Alex Barnett's post, with the earning potential of these things I can think of nothing better than for some of the cash to go to charity! You can get more details on the Big Noise Music site, where I notice they have a 1p streaming thing as well as a 75p…
I used to work with Michael at a previous company, one of the most creative coders around any certainly worth keeping an eye on...He also has a really interesting post on Web Accessibilitywhich links to a report pointing out some of the problems with current…
Thought I'd mention, while I was making the new skin for the site (which you'll miss if you're using a Reader of course!), I wanted to use a PNG for my little logo since I'd used a gradient and the logo has a drop-shadow which looked wierd under the wrong…
Well, this is the first of a few updates to this site over the next couple of days (prefer to take these things in steps - starting with the biggest). The update was fairly straightforward - one thing I haven't seen mentioned is the removal of the IIS *.*…
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