mostlylucid.net - Scott Galloway's Developer Blog

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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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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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...

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! ...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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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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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,...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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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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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...

Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00

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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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