Now there's a post title I never expected to write, anyway, got this in my mail from B3TA - theres lots of wierd stuff on that site, but this movie just rocks! Basically it's squirrels (or tree-rats...
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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...
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Really just a wrapper around the really nice native C library, but could be handy when you need to compress stuff in the quickest way possible...here's the SourceForge homepage
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Just noticed this link in a post on Kent Sharkeys blog. The article by Scott Mitchellcovers various methods of making ASP.NET 1.1 based sites conform to WAI accessibility guidelines (or US Section 508...
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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...
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I found some really interesting articles on the new ASPNETResources.com site, including stuff on Doctypes which was pretty good and tips on getting CSS2 Intellisense support in VS.NET - worth keeping...
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I have a tendency to forget that people don't necessarily know everything (in counselling we called it "contextual framing" - basically aligning your mindset with that of the person you're...
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Via Alex Barnett's post, with the earning potential of these things I can think of nothing better than for some of the cash to go to charity! You can get more details on the Big Noise Music site,...
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I used to work with Michael at a previous company, one of the most creative coders around any certainly worth keeping an eye on...He also has a really interesting post on Web Accessibilitywhich links...
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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...
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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...
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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!
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Thought I'd make a quick list of stuff I want to do but never have in .NET - yet....
Reflection - haven't yet had ANY call to use reflection for anything, lucky me!
Direct X 9.0 - I probably am going...
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Look here...the evil pooch will go away!
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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,...
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I'm planning (fingers crossed) to update this whole thing with the latest version (heavily modified by me) of .TEXT this weekend coming - I currently have a new snazzy skin (for the blog, my skin...
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I'm trying to simulate the .NET 2.0 Database Cache Dependency stuff (well kind of, WAY simpler obviously). What I'm doing is running a little timer class as a static property of my global.asax.cs...
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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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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...
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I'll be honest, this one puzzled me and I came up with some really hackneyed solutions to manage the situation where a user-uploaded file contained a virus (I develop lots of community sites which...
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