I've posted a couple of times about using RSS from ASP.NET, so this interested me a fair bit, Jason Salas has posted a nice server control which allows very simple generation of RSS feeds based on a query to a SQL Server database. There's been a bit of chat…
I'm working...hmm...thought I'd mention a very odd bug I came across yesterday at work - which had me puzzled for about a day and a half... I had written an application (the Portal I've mentioned before - The Education Community), which uses the Data Access…
Well, still at it (20 hours after starting - yes, the time on this post is correct!). Really fustrating mostly, but one of those times coding where hours and hours of pain (literally in this case - flu and splitting headaches were involved) were followed by a…
Deadlocks...I hates the little buggers! Just spent the day trying to fix an 'issue' with a site I developed for a client. This is slightly annoying as it's a 'theoretical' issue. Essentially, the client has chosen to do something that I never normally do, load…
Though I'd provide an update of stuff I'm working on for this site; which will be finished eventually finding time to do it is pretty tricky. Anyway, I've been delving deep into the core of .TEXT and working out how things fit together. Plan is to develop a…
I wrote on Brian Desmond's blog about how good a C# (open source of course!) statistics system would be...this got me thinking - it wouldn't be that hard to write one based on an HttpHandler. I don't really want to log accesses to graphics etc...and if I did,…
I am in the middle of developing a couple of new controls to work with this site (first up is a booklist which works with the amazon.co.uk web service), as part of this I need to have data access. I was having a look at the current SQLHelper class in the…
Just came across this blog http://sqlblogs.com/salman/, looks like it'll become a pretty useful blog for Sql...
Hmm...following the upgrade to VS.NET 2003 and the concurrent upgrade to 1.1 this required, an odd bug has surfaced in my code - it appears to be some form of connection leak. This is a bit odd as I've been using the same code and the DAAB with a connection…
Here's an article on 4Guysfromrolla about the DAAB(don't know what that is, click on the link!