Hi, I'm Scott Galloway.

Fixing Internet Explorer's CSS Deficiencies...and a link to the best menu implementation I've seen...

I really wish there were more blog posts like this one, it covers a whole host of problems IE has with CSS, from the lack of :hover support, to the well known issues with PNG files - oh and check out the comments, an awful lot of clever people have replied…

When good toys go bad...

AARGGHHHHH! Man I hate it when you get a nice fun gadget and it doesn't work...So anyway, I decided to buy myself a nice new iPod (20Gb model in case you're interested), got it home, read the instructions (for a change), installed the software, rebooted and…

This strikes me as incredibly useful! AzMan - lets you assign your own permission types (like 'CanEatPizza')

Found this on Loren Halvorson's Blog...he (?) explains it best, so here's just a complete copy of what he wrote... Is anyone using AzMan? We are in the process of developing a common role based authorization layer for several of our applications and stumbled…

Another short one...how to read the contents of an entire file into a Byte Array...

This just another one of thoise dumb little snippets that I always forget and is a bit of a bugger to find...so, if you for some reason (e.g., compression / encryption) need all of the contents of a file to be held in a byte array, here's the simplest way I've…

Gettin' into SCRUM

I'm currently working my way through the book "Agile software development with Scrum" by Schwaber and Beedle [US] - gotta say, it's looking pretty good! I'm only about half way through but so far it looks like the only development process which may actually…

Another link for me...again from ASP.NET... really good RSS class

Really nice control from Bipin Joshi for handling RSS feeds - so you can easily provide one from your site...

Convert a DataSet to Excel in one easy step...

I found this really useful little assembly / code when looking for a simple, free way to convert a DataSet to Excel - couldn't be easier, just one line of code required for the conversion, here's the line I'm using:…

Visual Studio .NET is causing me pain!

You know when you get to the point where you're happily coding away then suddenly, Visual Studio .NET causes you to want to kill someone...two things are really bugging me right now: Editing stored procedures - so, you use the nice designer (I believe Da Vinci…

J2EE Development using Visual Studio .NET

I thought this was pretty interesting - compiles MSIL into Java Bytecode so you can run C# or VB.NET (or any other . NET language I assume) on J2EE application servers. At first glance, the question qhich arises is 'why the hell would I want to do this?' but…

Great article on CAPTCHA on 15 Seconds today - Fighting Spambots with AI

Found it as ASP.NET...this is rapidly becoming pretty much essential for any site where users can register and post text, blogs, forums, the lot...this article provides an extensive review of current uses of CAPTCHA, ways to break it and how to avoid those…