mostlylucid.net - Scott Galloway's Developer Blog

ASP.NET 1.1 Accessibility - great article by Scott Mitchell

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...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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Very simple one...how to do a multithreaded call in one easy step

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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...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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Great idea, Online UK Music store supported by OXFAM

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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,...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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One cool thing, painless use of PNGs for IE

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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...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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Test how your site looks in dozens of browsers.

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Really useful service, chances are when you design a website you don't have access to the dozens of browser / platform combinations that your users do. Browsercam(though commercial) offers the only...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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Really nice VS.NET 'Paste As' Add-in from Alex P

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Simple idea but really useful! An add-in which lets you past content as various different things in VS.NET. Download it here. For more information, visit Alex's Post ...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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Stuff I've never done...in .NET at least

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Thought I'd make a quick list of stuff I want to do but never have in .NET - yet.... Reflection - haven't yet had ANY call to use reflection for anything, lucky me! Direct X 9.0 - I probably am going...

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Very cool tip, get rid of the hideous (and IMHO pretty useless) search thing in windows XP

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Look here...the evil pooch will go away! ...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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Brilliant CSS Tutorial - so somple even a simple coder like me can understand it!

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It's always a thing I've been fairly weak at - partly because in the past it was of limited use due to stupid browser incompatabilities - but now there's really no excuse for not being a CSS devotee,...

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One more...PINVOKE addin for Visual Studio

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Wish I had this the other week when I was doing my HTML image grabber thing...took me ages to find this stuff. Anyway, nice tool found here which lets you easily use some of the cool Win32 PIIVOKE...

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