I really wish there were more blog posts like this one, it covers a whole host of problems IE has with CSS, from the lack of :hover support, to the well known issues with PNG files - oh and check out...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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AARGGHHHHH! Man I hate it when you get a nice fun gadget and it doesn't work...So anyway, I decided to buy myself a nice new iPod (20Gb model in case you're interested), got it home, read the...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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Found this on Loren Halvorson's Blog...he (?) explains it best, so here's just a complete copy of what he wrote...
Is anyone using AzMan?
We are in the process of developing a common role based...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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This just another one of thoise dumb little snippets that I always forget and is a bit of a bugger to find...so, if you for some reason (e.g., compression / encryption) need all of the contents of a...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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I'm currently working my way through the book "Agile software development with Scrum" by Schwaber and Beedle [US] - gotta say, it's looking pretty good! I'm only about half way through but so far it...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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I found this really useful little assembly / code when looking for a simple, free way to convert a DataSet to Excel - couldn't be easier, just one line of code required for the conversion, here's the...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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I thought this was pretty interesting - compiles MSIL into Java Bytecode so you can run C# or VB.NET (or any other . NET language I assume) on J2EE application servers. At first glance, the question...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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From Jon Galloway's blog, a new version of BlogJet - with a bunch of new features including, finally, HTML Source editing - this is fantastic news!
New BlogJet!
Well, it's beta, but I'll take it - it...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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I'm aware this is a fairly controversial viewpoint, I should explain some of my own background as a precursor to my dislike of this. In the bad old days, I was a penetration tester; I ran my own...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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I'm really at the end of my tether with VS.NET and source control. I'm working from home this morning, accessing the office Sourcesafe over my VPN using SourceOffSite - fine, SourceOffsite is a great...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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UPDATE: My code below of course has an error (I wrote it to test the perceptive skills of the community ;-)) anyway, Philip Reick commented with a more credible version:
Hmm.. my bet is you came...
Saturday, 03 July 2004 00:00
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Just thought this was pretty interesting - from Slashdot:
An anonymous reader writes "CBC news reports that the effectiveness of 'sleeping on it' when faced with a difficult task may have more than...
Saturday, 03 July 2004 00:00
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I've been using Scott W.s little Amazon book control on this site for a while now - and it's pretty damn good, haven't made any cash from it as yet...but...well, it always bugged me that it was .com...
Saturday, 03 July 2004 00:00
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I have this command line app, when running in a 'normal' command window, it uses a fair whack of memory (around 60mb), but the second I minimize to taskbar, the memory usage drops to around...
Thursday, 01 July 2004 00:00
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My PDC envy is slightly abated...now I'll just have to get a new test machine (VMWare is cool and all, but you can't beat dedicated). Anyway, read all about it here at Bink. I really can't wait to...
Thursday, 01 July 2004 00:00
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Some very interesting stuff here.
UPDATE: Just reading that article, things I'm looking forward to most are the URLMapping (Rewrite.NET is cool and all but it will be nice to have the new 'native'...
Thursday, 01 July 2004 00:00
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This strikes me as pretty useful...found here at Eric Gunnerson's blog....
Actually, looks like a fairly interesting discussion on the relative merits of this approach is happening there right now...
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Thursday, 01 July 2004 00:00
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Just called up MSDN UK and asked for the PDC DVD, should be here around mid-November apparently. So if you're in the UK and an MSDN member (if you're not, get your company to join - only cost £520 if...
Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:00
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Had this odd issue working on some code which uses XmlTextReader to pass through an XML string...basically, when I ran the code noemally, it worked every time, but when I ran in debug mode it would...
Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:00
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Well, after a bit of playing I've got something working now, I'm no Win32 coder but this seems to work:
using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using...
Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:00
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