mostlylucid.net - Scott Galloway's Developer Blog

Firefox rules - no, not the dodgy Clint Eastwood movie!

Been playing with Mozilla Firefox - gotta say, it really is fantastic! MUCH faster than IE at loading pages, more standards compliant, skinning, better privacy settings...basically what IE should be...

Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00

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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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Taking the leap...

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I'm ALMOST decided that I'm going to move from full-time to contracting / free-lance work. Got my 'Start your own business' book, and am reworking my CV to be more suitable for this type of role...all...

Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00

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Oh dear..."Janet Jackson and the Publicity machine"...

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Pretty sad really, why didn't they just accept it was planned...anyway, this article has the best pictures and the full story...(warning, contains picture of Justin Timberlake looking 'concerned' -...

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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Consultancy in the UK...

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Theoretically :-) if I wanted to become a consultant in the UK - how would I go about it, where would I find contracts? Does anyone know if it's possible to do this and still live in Scotland? ...

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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