I have a tendency to forget that people don't necessarily know everything (in counselling we called it "contextual framing" - basically aligning your mindset with that of the person you're...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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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,...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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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...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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Look here...the evil pooch will go away!
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Mike Schinkel, president of Xtras.Net, made an offer on his personal blog of a free XDN Professional membership (http://www.xtras.net/xdn) during the month of May 2004 for anyone that blogs about .NET...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I'm trying to simulate the .NET 2.0 Database Cache Dependency stuff (well kind of, WAY simpler obviously). What I'm doing is running a little timer class as a static property of my global.asax.cs...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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Wish I had this the other week when I was doing my HTML image grabber thing...took me ages to find this stuff. Anyway, nice tool found here which lets you easily use some of the cool Win32 PIIVOKE...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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Sorry, had a bit of an unplanned hiatus over the past couple of weeks...a cold and a week away from computers being the main culprits. So, well, I'm back now feeling mentally reinvigorated and ready...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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First post in a while...illness and other stuff I'll blog about later...but to mark Poem in your pocket day...a bit early, here's one from one of my homies - Robert Burns (born just down the read from...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I've done this in a few ways in the past, ranging from custom XML templates with XSLT / Regular Expressions to screen scraping - this is just the simplest and cleanest way I've seen to do this (also a...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I've written previously that I've been hunting for a decent way to do web site search (specifically for CMS 2002 but just in general too...). I have been looking at Lucene.NET (which is in .TEXT 0.96)...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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This is one of these things that's been running on a background thread in my brain for about a year, I have never seen a good example of how to do this but it just seems handy (I don't know what for...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I was doing some work on the new version of my first article last night and I got to thinking, all the code in the new version is in the same font / colours that I use in my VS.NET. So, I was showing...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I tried my experiment again today. I don't know about overseas but in the UK at crossings we have a green man and a red man - you walk at the green man. Now, I had believed it was commonly known that...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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Had mine ordered for months now...but the big day finally approaches - Code Complete (US) is simply the single most essential book for any coder. I read the Drafta few months ago and have to say that...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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This post by Scott Hanselman is just a brilliant starting point for beginners in application architecture (in any language actually). In my experience a good basic structure can solve so many problems...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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Oddly I've had a couple of email (even one from a Microserf) asking why I thought I would never become an MVP. Well, the simple answer is - time. Keeping a blog takes relatively little time, I...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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I've been doing some work on using MSCMS2002 and have had to look at ways to implement search (by default it doesn't have it and requires that you buy a much expensive Sharepoint license) well, I...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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From Gareth Brown, a very handle little tool which I can think of a dozen uses for right now - a pronouncable password generator.
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Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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Paschal points out a really nice Windows Forms DataGrid replacement on CodeProject. This control looks really well done, the author has already posted some valuable updates on his own site, which also...
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