Over the years I've pretty much used every anti-spam measure in existence. The only one I've found that actually works (and it is pretty much faultless, 100+ spams caught daily, 0 false positives!) is SpamNet, this has recently become pay-ware ($3.99 a month…
Just spent almost an hour trying to get my SourceSafe DB backed up...then discovered this freeware utility which does it for me :-)
I've been getting a few new toys of late, one has been a little BEFVP41 VPN router from Linksys- this is an incredibly cool, easy to use IPSEC VPN router which lets me connect to my office (where we have another one of these installed) to access out…
I'm having one of my 'I should have gone to work for Microsoft' moments...As you may have read before, I had an interview a few years ago (is it really four years...damn!!!) and long story short, I didn't take the job. My problem at the moment is that what I…
I am a huge Douglas Coupland fan...so bear that in mind when reading this reviewlet! The story of Hey Nostradamus! is about a high-school massacre in Canada in the year 1988. The first chapter concerns the story of a girl who is killed in the massacre, Cheryl…
I love Harry Potter books, I've just finished reading the new book, it's long but it is a book which will keep you reading until the end (I've read it in a little over 12 hours). Very good book, which progresses the story in many ways (and doesn't feature as…
Perhaps a true revolution is starting, this article from Wired basically points out that despite having significantly fewer resources, Apple is still surviving - and prospering. This got me to thinking, the Open Source movement thus far has been largely…
One of the most frequent queries about dynamically added controls is how to get their values after postback... This is not as easy as it sounds if the value of these controls has a direct impact on the next set of controls bound to the page. There are various…
Sorry I haven't posted for the last day and a bit...we've been getting RC3 of our Portal project ready for delivery. The Portal is able to support two authentication mechanisms, Passport and Forms. Forms has worked perfectly from day one but the Passport has…
From Kent Shrkeys' blog (I know its' old, but it's new to me!) http://rinkworks.com/words/funwords.shtml