Hi, I'm Scott Galloway.

An article I really have to write - oh the woes of being lazy...just why the hell does everyone use DataGrids?

One thing that really puzzles me in the ASP.NET forums (apart from having to be moderated...which is a whole other story) is that practically everyone seems hell-bent on using the DataGrid. Why? What am I missing; I VERY rarely need to use a DataGrid, a…

Another in the 'things I didn't know but really should've done" - you can disable Client Side validation with client-side script...

OK umm, actually quite embarassed about this one...I just discovered this was possible...so I can emit a bit of Javascript which lets me disable validation on a control when some condition is met here's this bit from MSDN: Client-Side APIs Some additional…

Stupid, stupid ADSL

Sorry, ADSL is playing up again, please keep trying if you're having problems...

I hate the talented...

Pretty amazing track from Rory Blyth - man I wish had musical talent of any kind; well, I sing but a monkey can sing...not very well, and it obviously appeals most to other monkies...but well, you get the idea...

Blogger fight (BOF)

Rory Blyth- you are my one true god - for this post alone (and having the funniest Techie blog on the planet): Went to the blogger BOF tonight, and all I can say is that I'd like to flush this whole Atom vs. RSS debate down the toilet and do something more…

Linksys Routers and Windows Update

To cut a long story very short, I've always had a problem in accessing Windows Update from behind my Linksys BEFVP41 VPN router (which otherwise is excellent); well, I had to reinstall my main PC over the past couple of days (hence the lack of posts) and this…

What on earth is going on at ASPToday.com

I've been a fan ofASPToday for a while, but some very odd things are going on there at the moment...first is the sporadic downtime the site is having, then there's the distinct paucity of articles recently, they had a run with great new articles - then they…

Tools list from Developmentor

Just discovered this after reareading one of my old posts ... which is in itself a reporting of Scott Hanselamn's Power tools list, a fantastic, very varied list of .NET tools and samples from those nice folks at Developmentor...way to may useful things to…

Excellent MSN Style Toast popper

Been playing a little with my little stats app over this weekend, decided to add a little MSN-like notification function - this was made incredibly simple with this, a wonderful control by John O'Byrne which allows you to use any bmp file for a notification…

Spamnet available for Outlook Express

I've written about it before - but Spamnet is just the greatest email tool ever! Now they've finally released a version for Outlook Express! If you never want to see spam again, just get it - you'll have more that 500000 PEOPLE filtering out spam for you - no…