Fantastic Web 'Widgets' from Matt Hawley

Found through a comment on Jon Galloway's blog (no relation), this site has a whole bunch of nice little client side controls including a particularly nice calendar control. Anyway, thought I'd post the link for future reference :-) - oh and here's Matt…

Yukon presentation - it rules!

Just been catching up on the PDC presentations, came across this one on Yukon, also, for an interesting perspective on why you should use SPs in Sql Server, watch the first 10 minutes! Man, I am so looking foward to Yukon reaching RTM; the architectures which…

Nested Data Bound List Controls in ASP.NET

This article (which pretty much constantly seems to be down for me at the moment) presents an interesting was to nest Repeaters etc... in ASP.NET, now I have never used this approach - and I have no idea what method is best (and I suck at writing so, I'll…

Compile ASCX controls - so you no longer have to distribute the ASCX file!

I replied to someone's post saying that this was possible, well I finally got around to digging out the link, this article on CodeProject provides a little tool which will generate the C# source file representing your ASCX, pretty cool really!

OK, enough moaning - I will now go one whole week without complaining!

Things like this kind of put my complaints about silly programming stuff into a bit of perspective!

Now this really bugs me...

Noticed a link in my referrer log from this post which comments on a comment I made in the whole Dyanmic SQL debate, this comment: Right. Because evaluating arguments based on their validity is too much work, so it's much easier to pick the "winner" by picking…

SQLJunkies...fine, fine blogging site

The SqlJunkies weblog site is really starting to fill out, it's fantastic to have so many SQL experts posting in one place! Oh, and I'm not just saying that because I agree with Donny Mack's views on SPs; well, partially, reporting is still a pain but I had…

Search gone for the time being...

Just updating the user control...back in a couple of days.. UPDATE: Well, soonish...stupid dev machine is playing up...

Great post on the homeless Children of Miami and their belief system...

This article is just an amazing read, the creation of a mythic landscape helping children to cope a little better with being on the streets - nabbed from Kuro5hin

Just noticed a flaw in the comments submission...stupid client side validation!

Fix it tonight...sorry for any inconvenience! If you want to submit a comment, enter any old thing in the search box for the moment...sorry!