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...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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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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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...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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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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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...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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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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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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Mike Schinkel, president of Xtras.Net, made an offer on his personal blog of a free XDN Professional membership (http://www.xtras.net/xdn) during the month of May 2004 for anyone that blogs about .NET...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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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...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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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...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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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...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I've done this in a few ways in the past, ranging from custom XML templates with XSLT / Regular Expressions to screen scraping - this is just the simplest and cleanest way I've seen to do this (also a...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I've written previously that I've been hunting for a decent way to do web site search (specifically for CMS 2002 but just in general too...). I have been looking at Lucene.NET (which is in .TEXT 0.96)...
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...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I was doing some work on the new version of my first article last night and I got to thinking, all the code in the new version is in the same font / colours that I use in my VS.NET. So, I was showing...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I worte a few days about reasons I'd never be an MVP - today is a great exemplar of that. So far, I've fixed a few bugs on a bespoke community application (event handlers, HTML changes, T-SQL the...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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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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I've realised that it's taking far longer to write this thing that I'd hoped (the fact that I've started again 4 times may have something to do with it...). Plan is, I'll post the first part tonight ...
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New beta
some features fixed
looks good
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