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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Should mention I suppose the I lied in yesterdays post on threading using .NET...mea cupla :-). In that post I mentioned using delegates for multi-threading and said that you always had to use...
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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...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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OK, terribly documented, but it works...this is just the source for a little HttpModule which tracks hits to a .TEXT blog - pretty simple but should give anyone who wants to do it a start. I'll post a...
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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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Well, this is the first of a few updates to this site over the next couple of days (prefer to take these things in steps - starting with the biggest). The update was fairly straightforward - one thing...
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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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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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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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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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Sorry, had a bit of an unplanned hiatus over the past couple of weeks...a cold and a week away from computers being the main culprits. So, well, I'm back now feeling mentally reinvigorated and ready...
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First post in a while...illness and other stuff I'll blog about later...but to mark Poem in your pocket day...a bit early, here's one from one of my homies - Robert Burns (born just down the read from...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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This is one of these things that's been running on a background thread in my brain for about a year, I have never seen a good example of how to do this but it just seems handy (I don't know what for...
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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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