Now, I don't mean to be mean here; but on occasion (not mentioning any names for fear of being butchered), there's people who basically demand that I help them do their job.
Let me explain; I hang out...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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There's an odd issue when you try to use Passport on Windows Server 2003 - basically, the default 'Secure Level' of Passport is 10, unfortunately if you don't use SSL this means Passport won't work...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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A very common question in the ASP.NET Forumsis "How do I nest one Repeater (or DataList or DataGrid) inside of another?"; well, my usual stock answer used to be to use the OnItemDataBound event then...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Well, still at it (20 hours after starting - yes, the time on this post is correct!). Really fustrating mostly, but one of those times coding where hours and hours of pain (literally in this case -...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Deadlocks...I hates the little buggers!
Just spent the day trying to fix an 'issue' with a site I developed for a client. This is slightly annoying as it's a 'theoretical' issue. Essentially, the...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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So annoying...many nights at around midnight, my connection just seems to freeze. Helpfully, my provider says 'well just restart your router'...hmm...so, I apologise if you're having problems...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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I left a comment on Rob Chartier's blog about adding confirmation prompts to buttons, now I do use Andy Smith's Confirmed Buttons controls where I can, but if I need to add a simple confirmation to a...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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I'm getting increasingly involved in the world of Asynchrony and have been doing a bit of digging about into some of the pitfalls of multi-threading.
I came across an interesting one today involving...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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OK, can anyone explain why I can't check explicitly if I can lock a file before reading from it (i.e., check that no-one else is locking the file before trying to read from it). I'm using the...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Read all about it here...ah, sweet metablogging :-)
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Just noticed this in my User Agents....NET CLR 2.0.31022 - now the version I have from the Alpha is .NET CLR 1.2.30703 - is this new string the PDC build?
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Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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With all the hype about the distribution of the Whidbey Alpha at the PDC, I can't help but worry that people will get their hopes up a bit much...just remember it's an Alpha, whilst phenomenally cool...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Though I'd provide an update of stuff I'm working on for this site; which will be finished eventually finding time to do it is pretty tricky. Anyway, I've been delving deep into the core of .TEXT and...
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Free XML editor...http://www.xmlcooktop.com/
UPDATE: Sorry, forgot to mention where I found it...via John Mandia's blog
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Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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On Dave Winer's Test Site...fantastic picture of Hurricane Isabel- now my new wallpaper :)
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Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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I was asked if I was going to the PDC this year...I would love nothing more than to go...but with a $2000 registration fee, and close to 3500 for travel and accommodation...let's just say I won't be...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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Further to my earlier bit on Threading, this site has some brilliant (fairly advanced) examples on various things...including a custom Thread Pool
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Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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Now this is very cool...why VS.NET doesn't have this built in is beyond me...Visual XSLT pretty much all you need for XSLT development within Visual Studio .NET...costs $295 for commercial users but...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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I have recently been having a look at threading in ASP.NET, found this excellent article from June 2003 which is a pretty good introduction to the whole thorny issue. Also found a useful example from...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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I love the articles which Joel Spolsky writes, I already linked in an earlier post to an interview he did about social software and forums in particular (I'll dig out the link tomorrow - and the...
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