Rob Howard asked how other people were doing RSS feeds, well this has been an issue for me recently, where I had to generate RSS feeds for existing objects. I used a little collection of classes to do this which I've uploaded here, here's a quick example of…
Found through a comment on Jon Galloway's blog (no relation), this site has a whole bunch of nice little client side controls including a particularly nice calendar control. Anyway, thought I'd post the link for future reference :-) - oh and here's Matt…
Just been catching up on the PDC presentations, came across this one on Yukon, also, for an interesting perspective on why you should use SPs in Sql Server, watch the first 10 minutes! Man, I am so looking foward to Yukon reaching RTM; the architectures which…
This article (which pretty much constantly seems to be down for me at the moment) presents an interesting was to nest Repeaters etc... in ASP.NET, now I have never used this approach - and I have no idea what method is best (and I suck at writing so, I'll…
I replied to someone's post saying that this was possible, well I finally got around to digging out the link, this article on CodeProject provides a little tool which will generate the C# source file representing your ASCX, pretty cool really!
Things like this kind of put my complaints about silly programming stuff into a bit of perspective!
Noticed a link in my referrer log from this post which comments on a comment I made in the whole Dyanmic SQL debate, this comment: Right. Because evaluating arguments based on their validity is too much work, so it's much easier to pick the "winner" by picking…
The SqlJunkies weblog site is really starting to fill out, it's fantastic to have so many SQL experts posting in one place! Oh, and I'm not just saying that because I agree with Donny Mack's views on SPs; well, partially, reporting is still a pain but I had…
Just updating the user control...back in a couple of days.. UPDATE: Well, soonish...stupid dev machine is playing up...
This article is just an amazing read, the creation of a mythic landscape helping children to cope a little better with being on the streets - nabbed from Kuro5hin
Fix it tonight...sorry for any inconvenience! If you want to submit a comment, enter any old thing in the search box for the moment...sorry!
Well, went very smoothly - just got the DL off of MSDN subs downloads, mounted the iso as a disk for VMWare, fired it up in "2003 Server" config - installed perfectly! Seems to be better connecting using Terminal Services (RDP) - installing Whidbey now - gotta…
I'm in one of my quieter periods when it comes to blogging right now...I have no particular excuse, I am just a bit phasal when it comes to such things. Anyway, I'll give a suggestion as to some reading material whilst you are deprived of my non-sensical…
"Don't you think it's kind of funny, don't you think its kind of sad, the dreams in which i'm dying are the best I've ever had..."
Been a bit quiet of late, well basically I've been starting a new project at work - so I've been pretty much 24/7 in planning and building that app. It's a pretty cool little Bulk Email app (don't worry, for strictly opt-in mails :-)). A couple of the bits…
As I've posted many times, I'm a relative novice when it comes to all things WinForms, this post on Slashdot got me thinking, isn't 'Updating an Application over the Internet' exactly what the Updater Application Block and Windows Update do, not to mention…
Kent Sharkey posted an RSS View User control, which is pretty nice...I wanted to use XSLT for mine (I'm akward that way :-)) Anyway, I wrote this little one (which may appear on this blog in the future...)- not perfect but it works after a fashion :-)…
Just rediscovered this album after many years away from it, my opinion this is one of the greatest albums of all time (not something I say flippantly). The Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out (us link), absolutely amazing, doesn't sound a single bit dated. "Lost…
I've previously used Xml Serialization for loading and saving config files into and out of apps - nice use...What I've done recently though has been very useful - for me at least. Essentially, I have an application which has a little Poll control, now in…
How does this guyfind the time, anyway, found on Roy Osherove's blog, Chris Brumme(CLR God) has posted and article on the Exception model in the CLR. Not exactly light reading...but worthwhile to gain a bit more precious insight into the deep and murky inner…