Read on Robert McLaws blog that some Whidbey information (next version of Visual Studio and .NET) has been made public . I can't wait for this to come out - it really is a massive improvement I also can't wait to be able to talk about it and use it on real…
This is a wonderful project, providing a Rich Text Editor for the ASP.NET community. If you can afford to contribute to this project, please do (I plan to very soon :-P). Essentially it provides an embedded HTML editor which you can use in any ASP.NET (oh, and…
Here's an article on 4Guysfromrolla about the DAAB(don't know what that is, click on the link!
This is a really useful resource http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/metatags.html . On cachig and Meta tags in general.
Just noticed over at .NET Weblogs, Paschal links to Jim Byrne with a collection of articles on web design and accessibility.
Noticed this on .NET weblogs, a post about a bugin the DAAB V2
I've recently been following a thread on accessibility in ASP.NET - now this is a pretty important subject for any web developer. It is illegal not to make your site accessible and can lead to a hefty fine! At the moment, ASP.NET pretty much sucks for…
I'm currently generating an update procedure for an installed site - this involves generating a change script for the DB to make the deployed one the same as the new, modified one (yes, I know you should create change scripts as you go along...well I was on…
Well, its' back in its' box, waiting to get sent back. The phone just plain sucks OK, the have this swish new high-speed network - does it support internet access...umm...nope. The battery literally lasts like 4 hours, the UI is just plain the worst I have…
As I've written about a hundred times now. I'm currently rebuilding this site - don't stop reading, I really am this time! So, I'm in the process of defining an architecture - rebuilding the site is more about my playing with some new technologies rather than…
As we all know, C# lacks an IsNumeric method, this article at AspAlliance looks at various methods of doing this and benchmarks them to find the quickest...
There really are some! Found at Joel On Software... I especiallt love this one... "Computers are high-speed idiots, programmed by low-speed idiots"
Umm...try this Not pretty is it...well you did ask for it!
I'm currently in the planning stages of several .NET articles - so my question is, what would you most like to know? I do plan to write an article on the use of Nested Repeaters with DataSets with internal relations, and an article on T-SQL based…
Just read this article about a Microsoft interview. I also had an interview for a job at Microsoft a few years ago now (in my case, a PM job in one of the server groups). I met Mark Anders in the book shop at the 1999 ASP professional conference in Islington,…
I trained as a Scientist...psychologists are kind of paranoid about being strictly scientific since it used to be an 'art' - so now all psychologists applyt scientific method with some rigour. Science is an odd creature and many scientists define themselves as…
What is 'The Zone' -is it a form of the trance autistic people sometimes experience. Do hairdressers have a 'Styling Zone'. I love it, it's Zen like (I practise ZaZen meditation or at least the dumbed down self-help form). 'The Zone' is a place you can reach…
It's easter sunday and I got to thinking about my family - my nephews will currently be feeling ill with severe chocolate overdose... So thought I'd upload the one good picture I ever took. Click for the HUGE version...It's a picture of my nephew Barry, taken…
Just noticed over at Devhawk that V2 of the DataAccessApplicationBlock has been released... Just When You Thought It Was Safe... The prescriptive guidance is coming fast and furious now. The User Interface Process Application Block is a framework for…
I've written about these before, but if you are planning to develop any sort of ASP.NET / other .NET based app, you can save yourself a whole heap of time an aggrovation by having a look at the .NET application blocks, for instance the Data Access Application…