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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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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Stuff I've never done...in .NET at least

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Thought I'd make a quick list of stuff I want to do but never have in .NET - yet.... Reflection - haven't yet had ANY call to use reflection for anything, lucky me! Direct X 9.0 - I probably am going...

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Very cool tip, get rid of the hideous (and IMHO pretty useless) search thing in windows XP

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Look here...the evil pooch will go away! ...

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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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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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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Scanning for viruses during file uploads

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I'll be honest, this one puzzled me and I came up with some really hackneyed solutions to manage the situation where a user-uploaded file contained a virus (I develop lots of community sites which...

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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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