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...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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Off for the weekend...

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Well, the last episode of Friends is about to start...and just been doing my blog trawl before I shut my laptop for the weekend - for which I just bought a new power adaptor; if you need a laptop...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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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...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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Playing with SauceReader

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Wow, this thing is promising. I usually use BlogJet for posting but SauceReader has a good RSS Reader and posting interface - and it has a functional SpellChecker! ...

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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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Oh, in case you're wondering...I will be posting more regularly pretty soon!

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I'm planning (fingers crossed) to update this whole thing with the latest version (heavily modified by me) of .TEXT this weekend coming - I currently have a new snazzy skin (for the blog, my skin...

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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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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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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...

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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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