Little hit tracking module for .TEXT 0.95 blogs...

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…

Great idea, Online UK Music store supported by OXFAM

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…

New blog to keep an eye on...Michael Falconer

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…

One cool thing, painless use of PNGs for IE

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…

Updated this site to .TEXT 0.95

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 *.*…

Test how your site looks in dozens of browsers.

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 truly viable way I've ever seen to do this, put simply you…

Playing with SauceReader

Wow, this thing is promising. I usually use BlogJet for posting but SauceReader has a good RSS Reader and posting interface - and it has a functional SpellChecker!

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

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

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

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 to play with this pretty soon, especially with this just…

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

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