mostlylucid.net - Scott Galloway's Developer Blog

Very simple one...how to do a multithreaded call in one easy step

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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One cool thing, painless use of PNGs for IE

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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...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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

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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 ...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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Getting back to it...

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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...

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And now a poem...to mark Poem in your pocket day...

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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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For Future Reference: Creating Templated Emails...very nice method using UserControls

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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...

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This is very interesting - turn HTML documents into images

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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...

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Pet hate...well one of many..

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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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Ok, so this article....slight change of plans...

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I've realised that it's taking far longer to write this thing that I'd hoped (the fact that I've started again 4 times may have something to do with it...). Plan is, I'll post the first part tonight ...

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Another new version of BlogJet

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New beta some features fixed looks good ...

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