Can't sleep...and looking for a new aggregator

Well, I'm suffering from post new year sleeping pattern - I basically become nocturnal over the Christmas and New Year (Hogmanay) holidays, have to start work in 8 hours...not good! Anyway, while I am sitting here awake (there's a show on about Turkish Harems;…

Wow, use HTC within Mozilla!

This comment to my moan about thisis VERY cool: I think I've solved your problem! I've successfully developed a Mozilla wrapper for Microsoft's HTC files. It is encapsulated in a single XBL binding, so is exremely portable. The binding is small (4k) and…

Stuff on compressing .TEXT RSS feeds from Jeff Julian

Pretty useful if you don't have the ability to use IIS compression (or choose not to) - Jeff Julian has released a 'plugin' for .TEXT which enables you to compress the RSS feeds produced by .TEXT 0.95 - which is very useful, most of my traffic for instance…

Even more on ViewState...well, my pet peeve on ASP.NET really...

I've been giving some more thought to the ViewState stuff I mentioned earlier. It actually brings up something which I find most annoying about ASP.NET - and this is not a political point! Why exactly can't 'ordinary' users see the source for ASP.NET, so far…

Really interesting sample on ViewState preservation for non-visible controls

Nice sample and methodology from Robert Downey (obvious joke omitted), shows some really interesting (to me at least) insights into the workings of ViewState (you may be noticing a pattern here :-))

Adding confirmation to buttons...and why I've been doing it wrong all along...

I left a comment on Rob Chartier's blog about adding confirmation prompts to buttons, now I do use Andy Smith's Confirmed Buttons controls where I can, but if I need to add a simple confirmation to a button, I tended to use the following sytax from…

Told you...WWWCoder writes an article on upcoming features in Whidbey...

Read all about it here...ah, sweet metablogging :-)

Whidbey toolbox controls

Now it's after the 26th, the NDA is lifted on the Whidbey alpha...which is nice :-) Anyway, thought I'd provide a look at the new ASP.NET toolbar for Whidbey here. There's lots of really nice new controls which are also much easier to use; one example, you can…

Moaning...

Been reading my recent posts and blog comments...umm...sorry, in a bit of a moaning mood of late. I really have to get down to it and contribute a bit more - I have some changes to make to this site which are sitting on my dev version just waiting on…

The single biggest ASP.NET usability problem

That got your attention - the biggest usability problem in my opinion is the horrible single form you're usually forced to deal with - I know Paul Wilson has a multiple form control for sale, and it is really cool but there is an easier way for most people. To…