mostlylucid.net - Scott Galloway's Developer Blog

Now there's a post title I never expected to write, anyway, got this in my mail from B3TA - theres lots of wierd stuff on that site, but this movie just rocks! Basically it's squirrels (or tree-rats...

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Just noticed, implementation of LZO compression for .NET - VERY FAST!

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Really just a wrapper around the really nice native C library, but could be handy when you need to compress stuff in the quickest way possible...here's the SourceForge homepage ...

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ASP.NET 1.1 Accessibility - great article by Scott Mitchell

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Just noticed this link in a post on Kent Sharkeys blog. The article by Scott Mitchellcovers various methods of making ASP.NET 1.1 based sites conform to WAI accessibility guidelines (or US Section 508...

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Another quickie: Parsing DateTime values according to the correct culture

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This is a common puzzler for people new to .NET (who aren't in the US!), just how do you parse a DateTime to be correct for your culture? Answer, pretty easily...the DateTime.Parse has an overload...

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Really interesting new (?) site focussing on ASP.NET and Web Standards

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I found some really interesting articles on the new ASPNETResources.com site, including stuff on Doctypes which was pretty good and tips on getting CSS2 Intellisense support in VS.NET - worth keeping...

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Great idea, Online UK Music store supported by OXFAM

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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,...

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

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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...

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Test how your site looks in dozens of browsers.

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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...

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My wide and varied experience - or Jack of all trades, master of none.

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I worte a few days about reasons I'd never be an MVP - today is a great exemplar of that. So far, I've fixed a few bugs on a bespoke community application (event handlers, HTML changes, T-SQL the...

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Another new version of BlogJet

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New beta some features fixed looks good ...

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