Had a nice, relaxing holiday, read a few books, I can recommend Charles Petzold's Code and kind of recommend Homer, Sussman and Howard's Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 - I say 'kind of' because I found it really patchy in the writing style...but then I've never liked…
I've posted a couple of times about using RSS from ASP.NET, so this interested me a fair bit, Jason Salas has posted a nice server control which allows very simple generation of RSS feeds based on a query to a SQL Server database. There's been a bit of chat…
Just noticed this from the Scaled Composites website: PAUL G. ALLEN CONFIRMED ASLONG-RUMORED SPONSOR OF SPACESHIPONEAllen Sponsors Scaled Composites’ Cutting-Edge X-Prize Entry, Attends Today’sSuccessful Test Flight of the First Manned Privately Funded…
Hooray...my dreams finally realised :-) Primate Programming
This is also pretty nice :-P
I'm working...hmm...thought I'd mention a very odd bug I came across yesterday at work - which had me puzzled for about a day and a half... I had written an application (the Portal I've mentioned before - The Education Community), which uses the Data Access…
Very useful...http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/
ASP.NET has a problem with file downloads...basically if you use Response.WriteFile(fileName), the entire file is buffered in memory before its' downloaded - this is NOT good for scalability. To get round that proble, here's some code which could be used for…
Hmm...got a new swish 3G mobile phone, the NEC e606, got a pretty good deal - works out cheaper than my old phone with a GPRS package - but with 10 times tha bandwidth and no restrictions on VPN ports which my old orange phone had...Have to say though, that…
This discussion on Slashdothas finally made my mind up. I have been a reader of Slashdot for a number of years, I believe I started reading it in the first month it existed. I'm even one of the smallish number of people who subscribes. The eternal Microsoft…