Long day

Just got home after a very long day, was meant to be a short day but...well... This was the day we planned to deploy the big site we've been developing for the past 8 months to its' final hosting environment. Unfortunately, the environment wasn't configured as…

Internet Explorer Client Side behaviours - the magic of HTC

Reading this post from Stephen Sharrock reminded me about something I often overlook, the phenomenally powerful DHTML behaviours which IE supports using HTC files. The WebService behaviour for instance lets you pull information into your client from aribtrary…

My little compression helper...improved version

I posted my compression helper class before and realised almost instantly that it suffered from 'legacy lag' - so it'd been changed so much over the months that it was really bad! Anyway, presented below is a modified version of that class (which I've also…

Right...gonna get back to this...and a request for assistance!

As I've been posting a bit recently,I've been having some problems with my DNS (entirely of my own making I should point out). Anyway, so these DNS problems have led me to do a bit of thinking about this here site - conclusion, I've been very lazy about…

Dumb little thing...class which outputs an Excel compatible table from a DataSet

Very simple and based on the one I blogged about previously (well not based on the code but based on the same idea). Anyway, hook this up to a link button, pass in a dataset and it'll provide a downloadable Excel compatible file... public class GetExcel {…

Really nice cross-browser method of doing the 'DefaultButtons' thing - so that when you hit enter, the correct button 'clicks'

This is one of the major UI problems which is essentially caused by ASP.NET's 'one form' rule, as Darrell points out there's a number of solutions out there but none of them really solve the whole problem (i.e., for all browsers), well now there's a great…

Nested repeaters - new article on Codeproject and why you shouldn't do it that way!

Just been reading this article on Codeproject.com...hmm...I have a few issues with how he does things: DataBinder.Eval - I have what is becoming an obsession about this now - there's just NO NEED for this in most cases, it sucks in terms of performance (you…

Yankee Go Home! Latest 'Mars Rover' Image...

I just love this...from Paschal's blog Yankee Go Home!

Brain Shutdown...oh and some semi-useful links...

Well, it's 1am, I have at least 8 hours work ahead of me but my Cerebral Cortex has unfortunately decided to cease functioning. I'm also listening to the .NET Rocks showwhere Chris Sells and Rory Blythinterview Carl Franklin...hmm...Carl si currently going on…

Very nice free bits and pieces from Lumisoft

I was hunting for some POP3 stuff in .NET when I happened across this thing, basically a fully-featured POP3 / IMAP/ SMTP / WebMail client written in C# with Source code for free! It's really nice and basically provides all the bits I need for my POP3 mail toy…