New beta some features fixed looks good
A sudden problem has occurred on my blog and I'm not sure why...RSS feeds work fine, but the actual homepage does not, tried reindexing my SQL server, deleting a bunch of posts etc...still no joy! Very annoying! UPDATE: So changing the skin seems to have cured…
Was perusing the ASP.NET Forums earlier when I stumbled across this post by Revjon (of FreeTextBox fame), his question was on whether plans exist for integrating FTB 2.0 into .TEXT. Well, I went ahead and did this for 0.95 - not perfect (there's a Javascript…
Had mine ordered for months now...but the big day finally approaches - Code Complete (US) is simply the single most essential book for any coder. I read the Drafta few months ago and have to say that the second edition is even better - buy it, read it, love…
This post by Scott Hanselman is just a brilliant starting point for beginners in application architecture (in any language actually). In my experience a good basic structure can solve so many problems in an application - and in many cases is a 'freebie', i.e.,…
Back from my (admittedly short) break - Dad's birthday which I really wanted to be at home for this year. We're trying to get a bit more structure going at my place of work, well we had some before but as we get busier and busier we need to get a more…
I was replying to this forum post I actually couldn't find a good example on how to do this - wierd, it's such a common thing to do. So, the problem is, is there a better method than using the Application object to store objects which should be available for…
Oddly I've had a couple of email (even one from a Microserf) asking why I thought I would never become an MVP. Well, the simple answer is - time. Keeping a blog takes relatively little time, I probably spend an hour a day max posting to this thing and leaving…
Roy clarifies his position on the whole Rory thing...(incidentally, Rory, I tried to email you but it bounced back) My response, well, I posted an ill concieved post yesterday about the whole debacle which I have since withdrawn. Here's the response only…
Someone emailed me asking when the new version of my nested repeater article would be available - all I can say is very soon - hopefully I'll get some time to finish it this week. Anyway, the source code for the examples is complete, I'll probably add a couple…
Sorry, I had some downtime over the weeken - I was away for the Easter break and so was only able to restart just now. If you've sent me any mail over the last couple of days, chances are I haven't recieved it.
I was reading SampoSofts blog when came across this which links to ILMerge, this is a little tool made by MSR (who are kind of the smartest guys at the smartest compnays - i.e., pretty smart!). What this does is combine multiple assemblies into one - why would…
OK, let me start by saying that I enjoy working in C# / .NET more than I have any other language / framework in my working life. The problem is, that's just not enough. The simple fact is that I've chosen to live and work in Scotland and this severly limits my…
I've been doing some work on using MSCMS2002 and have had to look at ways to implement search (by default it doesn't have it and requires that you buy a much expensive Sharepoint license) well, I revisited the nLucene project - this had stalled for a while but…
Really exciting changes by the looks of it - not long now before we can actually use these features (well about a year). Anyway, a usual an excellent article from G. Andrew Duthie (or G. for short).
When replying to this post in the ASP.NET forums, Dave023 (I wish people would use their real names, we're not posting porn there or anything!) he mentioned using the System.Data.IDataRecord instead of the System.Data.Common.DbDataRecord I normally use when…
From Gareth Brown, a very handle little tool which I can think of a dozen uses for right now - a pronouncable password generator.
Paschal points out a really nice Windows Forms DataGrid replacement on CodeProject. This control looks really well done, the author has already posted some valuable updates on his own site, which also provides a nice RSS feed for updates on this and his other…
Marcie just let me know that there's another Nested Repeaters article been published, this time by Thomas 'Aylar' Johansen. Looks pretty good...I'll be working on a revision and followup to my article on this subject over the next few days, covering…
Just sorted one of the nastiest bugs I have ever had...I built a .NET class which was used from Classic ASP, so it too in recordsets then loaded then into a DataTable and fired them across a Web Service to another .NET app. Problem was I got all sorts of…