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ASP.NET Style Webforms for Classic ASP

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Via Leon Jollans (on the MSWebdev list) - a really neat way to do ASP.NET like stuff in classic ASP... ...

Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00

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Geek hero...someone actually called their child Version 2.0!

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I just love this...especially as I'm currently going for me V1.1 (wonder if I should use that title :-))... ...

Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00

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Dumb piece of code...generate ordinals for numbers (th,rd etc...)

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UPDATE: My code below of course has an error (I wrote it to test the perceptive skills of the community ;-)) anyway, Philip Reick commented with a more credible version: Hmm.. my bet is you came...

Saturday, 03 July 2004 00:00

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I knew it - finally proof that 'slepping on it' helps solve problems!

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Just thought this was pretty interesting - from Slashdot: An anonymous reader writes "CBC news reports that the effectiveness of 'sleeping on it' when faced with a difficult task may have more than...

Saturday, 03 July 2004 00:00

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Dumb little update to the Amazon book control...now it knows where you live!

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I've been using Scott W.s little Amazon book control on this site for a while now - and it's pretty damn good, haven't made any cash from it as yet...but...well, it always bugged me that it was .com...

Saturday, 03 July 2004 00:00

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Puzzled by memory usage...

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I have this command line app, when running in a 'normal' command window, it uses a fair whack of memory (around 60mb), but the second I minimize to taskbar, the memory usage drops to around...

Thursday, 01 July 2004 00:00

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The coolest thing of all - Longhorn build 4051 on MSDN in November!

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My PDC envy is slightly abated...now I'll just have to get a new test machine (VMWare is cool and all, but you can't beat dedicated). Anyway, read all about it here at Bink. I really can't wait to...

Thursday, 01 July 2004 00:00

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Scott Guthrie blogs about some of the new Whidbey features...

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Some very interesting stuff here. UPDATE: Just reading that article, things I'm looking forward to most are the URLMapping (Rewrite.NET is cool and all but it will be nice to have the new 'native'...

Thursday, 01 July 2004 00:00

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Including XML comments in external files for C#

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This strikes me as pretty useful...found here at Eric Gunnerson's blog.... Actually, looks like a fairly interesting discussion on the relative merits of this approach is happening there right now... ...

Thursday, 01 July 2004 00:00

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Well that's the PDC DVD ordered...

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Just called up MSDN UK and asked for the PDC DVD, should be here around mid-November apparently. So if you're in the UK and an MSDN member (if you're not, get your company to join - only cost £520 if...

Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:00

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