New personal crusade...

New personal crusade... posted on 3:11 PM Why doesn't the .NET implementation of Web Services support GZIP compression? I've found a couple of articlesdescribing how to implement it, but I'll have to do a bit of digging (my Reference.cs doesn't have the…

You can teach an old dog new tricks...

You can teach an old dog new tricks... posted on 4:07 PM To cut a long story short, even though I've used .NET since the first beta (in 1999), I never got around to using Winforms - no, really! I have developed winforms apps in VB6 and swing apps in Java, just…

Things I wish I'd known before this: Part 1 (of several million)

Things I wish I'd known before this: Part 1 (of several million) posted on 6:21 PM I did not know this was possible or so easy! Just found out you can extend XSLT (so you can use bits of code in there) from C# have a look here and here for the lowdown... This…

Really useful ISO opening tool - Undisker

Really useful ISO opening tool - Undisker posted on 4:05 AM I download lots of ISOs from MSDN and others for evaluating software, developing etc...To be frank, burning all these to CD is a pain. I have recently stumbled upon a great tool called Undisker -…

Amazingly interesting project by Steve Tibbett - read RSS feeds in any Newsreader!

Amazingly interesting project by Steve Tibbett - read RSS feeds in any Newsreader! posted on 7:35 PM Just noticed on Scott W's site, hidden in one of the comments is a link to a project called Syndicache, this is a stunningly interesting idea. What this seems…