Well, had a very restful holiday...back to work now though. In typical Scottish fashion (well Edinburgh), it's raining outside. So, plans for the next few days include learning more about mobile controls...extending my winforms knowledge and generally working…
It's Friday night, at home and bored again. So, anyone reading this thing? Well, guess I'd better explain who I am if you are...I'm a 6ft 3in 20 stone Scottish male who lives alone in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. Haven't settled on a career yet and am…
I intend to add a fair old whack of content to the site over the next few days (I'll also work on some sort of design). Promise I will! This site's primary reson for being is so I can share stuff I discover in .NET, this could be articles my friends and I ,…
Have a listen too BoneCracker by Shocore...fantastic stuff - which I admit I saw on Smallville smallville soundtrack Still good though! Kind of Prodigy Lite ©. I miss the Prodigy...listening to Mindfields while walking in the sun..ahh youth :-) Incidentally,…
A discussion over on Paschal's site on the merits of the ASPInsiders cabal. I honestly don't see the point of this sort of group - what exactly does being a member mean to the community at large (apart from a pretty icon on http://www.asp.net forums)? Does…
A bit quiet... posted on 3:23 PM Sorry, I've been neglecting this thing a little of late (causing trouble on the ASP.NET forums instead...gives me something to write about :-)). Anyway, I'll try and think of something interesting to write about..umm..any…
Frans Bouma really doesn't see the point of using Stored Procedures over using Dynamic SQL - so Frans, what's your take on such things as Indexed Viewsand User Defined Functions - which are essentially SPs but there's no equivalent for Dynamic SQL, so you're…
Noticed this article on making ASP.NET output valid XHTML...looks pretty complicated - maybe the next version will have better support ;-)
Found on the Scobleizer... Salam Pax gives an interview- streaming in WMP9 & (crappy) RealPlayer... In case you didn't know...Salam Pax is a blogger who writes one of the single most interestng blogs ever - he lives in Iraq, was there during the war and seems…
I find some really interesting stuff on Roy Osherove's blog (I suspect he's a bit of an internet packrat like myself :0). Anyway, today he has a link to Brian Jackson's Blog, funny, interesting stuff - which incidentally has a great tagline to one of his posts…
Back in a few days... posted on 6:27 AM Taking a break away from computers for a few days...back in a week's time...
RSS Feeds... posted on 8:16 PM 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…
Nested Data Bound List Controls in ASP.NET posted on 10:23 PM 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…
Internet Explorer Client Side behaviours - the magic of HTC posted on 11:22 PM 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…
OK, enough moaning - I will now go one whole week without complaining! posted on 5:49 PM Things like this kind of put my complaints about silly programming stuff into a bit of perspective!
Search gone for the time being... posted on 11:36 PM Just updating the user control...back in a couple of days.. UPDATE: Well, soonish...stupid dev machine is playing up...
Memory Leak - solved - or 'When STAThread Goes Bad' posted on 11:40 PM I posted a little while ago about an odd 'Memory Leak' I was having...well, after several days of trawling (and annoying Data Wantawho's excellent email component I was mistakenly blaming -…
Puzzled by memory usage... posted on 10:34 PM I have this command line app, when running in a 'normal' command window, it uses a fair whack of memory (around 60mb), but the second I minimize to taskbar, the memory usage drops to around 10mb....anyone any ideas…
Well that's the PDC DVD ordered... posted on 8:17 PM Just called up MSDN UK and asked for the PDC DVD, should be here around mid-November apparently. So if you're in the UK and an MSDN member (if you're not, get your company to join - only cost £520 if you…
What on earth is going on at ASPToday.com posted on 8:17 PM I've been a fan ofASPToday for a while, but some very odd things are going on there at the moment...first is the sporadic downtime the site is having, then there's the distinct paucity of articles…