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

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 ...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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

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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...

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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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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! ...

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Brilliant CSS Tutorial - so somple even a simple coder like me can understand it!

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It's always a thing I've been fairly weak at - partly because in the past it was of limited use due to stupid browser incompatabilities - but now there's really no excuse for not being a CSS devotee,...

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One more...PINVOKE addin for Visual Studio

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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...

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Fonts for coding...am I in the minority

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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...

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