Nice article...declaratively bind Form / Querystring parameters onto member parameters posted on Friday, March 05, 2004 1:52 PM I just like this implementation of doing this pretty useful task...one of those things you end up doing over and over (I'm going to…
DNS Problems now resolved - and on to some reflection stuff posted on Friday, August 20, 2004 3:22 PM Well, seems my DNS provider uses some kind of procedure which can be prone to failure. Anyway, my DNS stuff is now functional again- yay! My plan for today is…
Serious thought - on XHTML and CSS posted on Thursday, August 19, 2004 11:56 PM During this current break I've been doing my usual 'read shed-loads' routine, read the entire Ender series by Orson Scott Card (well, the last 4 books), Code Complete 2 (US),…
Hmm...Line Upgrade or Third Party Hosting (long, pointless post warning!) posted on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 3:27 AM I have a decision to make, currently this site is hosted on my littile mini-itx server on my highly suspect 512k ADSL line, this has been perfect…
Fantastic popup windows technique posted on Friday, August 27, 2004 10:05 AM Just been reading on Matt Bethers blog on a technique by Már Örlygsson on a great way of doing popups (disclaimer: I know, popups are evil...fall of civilization...STDs etc....),…
Patterns and Practices...suck! posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:42 AM I think I've made it pretty clear in the past that I think that one of the weakest areas of the Microsoft 'developer experience' is the Patterns & Practices area, don't believe me? OK,…
State of play... posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 1:57 PM Well, sorry I've been light on the posting for a couple of weeks - been a bit caught up in some stuff going on (my uncle died) as well as starting a new project at work. I haven't been entirely away…
Was up wid me? posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:38 AM Well, I'm back from holiday - trying to get interested in coding again, which is harder than it should be! Anyway, in an effort to get back into things I've been reading a few blog articles which are…
Article on per-row template selection for ASP.NET Repeaters posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:29 AM This is really nice solution to a particularly thorny problem - namely, repeaters repeat...you can't normally change the template for each row. The…
Calling all Scottish .NET developers posted on Saturday, September 25, 2004 7:17 PM Reading Paschal's stuff on his Irish Developers group, this seems like a great idea. So, here's mine - I know there's lots of Scottish Developers and of those, a lot are .NET…
I Suck! posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 8:41 PM Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry I've been negelecting you my lovely reader. There's just a whole lot to play with at the moment, just got a reasonably priced Video Camera, my lovely bike, been playing with VS.NET 2005…
Great timesaver if you're writing templated ASP.NET Server Controls posted on Friday, June 18, 2004 11:17 PM Andy Smith published a phenomenally handy code snippeton his blog which does a lot of the grunt work for generating DesignTimeHtml for Templated server…
Great tip on helping you tell apart debug and release bulds posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:59 PM From Ted Graham, basically you just stick a conditional item into AssemblyInfo.cs - very neat tip! See his post for more details.
The Microsoft Network Project (MNP) - the secret's out! posted on Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:27 PM Recently been working on a site with this stuff, until now this has been really poorly documented (you may have seen a page with a .mspx extension - that's an MNP…
Interesting post on getting Mozilla XUL running inside Internet Explorer by Jean-Yves Cronier posted on Sunday, September 12, 2004 11:46 AM Let the crossover continue! Jean-Yves Cronier left a comment on my old post about HTC inside Mozilla, he points to a…
I don't know why this isn't mentioned more, maybe a link or something! Anyway, as usual you can get the latest version of MSDN magazine here - this is a CHM, so whole magazine in a single file (makes mobile use MUCH easier).
Well, it's almost 3am and I can't sleep - very annoying! Anyway, thought I'd briefly post about what I've been up to of late, well here goes... Work wise - mentioned previously we were using the SCRUM process at work now - so I'm just smoothing out the details…
As I posted previously, the company I work for is looking at improving out development process, with this in mind we're currently trying out SCRUM - thing is, I've yet to find a tool perfectly suited for managing projects using this method. My criteria are -…
Bit concerned that an old post is being linked from this URL http://msdnprod/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/viewstate.asp?frame=true - especially as The URL of the person doing the linking is a Microsoft one That post REALLY needs updating (and is just such a…
Lorenzo Barberi posts this story of a guy trying to introduce agile methodologies into a traditional corporate 'Waterfall' management culture. What's really interesting in this story are the 'lessons' he mentions: 1) I wasn't very good at defending agile…