Mon, 28 June 2010
I thought XLinq would be a convenient way to load and manipulate XHTML data but was scuppered as it wouldn't parse due to some undeclared entities for example...
Mon, 14 June 2010
Everyone is used to typed exceptions, using them in your libraries is good practice allowing for concrete compile time type checking and that kind of thing. This is also a good thing to do when designing your web services.
Sun, 13 June 2010
Hashing your passwords is not enough, there are a number of hash databases which store huge numbers of hash values which act as a reverse lookup revealing your passwords true identity.
Mon, 31 May 2010
Quickly... yes its got an American z in it, but here is some code to convert a string into Camel case, upper or lower
Sat, 12 December 2009
Ever wanted a number which can only be between two given min/max values, which when you assign it a value outside of this it works uses the remainder...? No...? What are you weird!
Sun, 29 November 2009
How to provide the UI with the status of a long operation
Wed, 28 October 2009
How to parse csv files with regex allowing for commas in quotes.
A common enough task, this is a way of doing it using .NET regular expressions.
Sun, 20 September 2009
This is not a new thing by any means, but I found it difficult to find a single place where it was explained and the code made available, so here we go ...
Sat, 5 September 2009
There are a lot of passwords in my head from numerous sites of which I am a member. I try not to use the same password for any two sites because ...
Fri, 21 August 2009
Charter Publishing, an existing client of mine, asked me to update their site
Tue, 11 August 2009
Sometimes its useful to be able target html elements on a particular page or you want to have specific styling according to a particular area, controller or action.
Sat, 1 August 2009
Recently this site has changed structure, it's still being updated and pages are not where they used to be. My "SEO Doctor" tells me that I need to keep a track on the changes and nicely redirect requests to the new location.
Sat, 1 August 2009
When I started this project there were few alternatives to FCKEdit, TinyMCE
Tue, 18 November 2008
Calling bespoke MSBuild Targets from VS for publishing versioned builds, a specific web.config, Compressed JavaScript/CSS and FTP to a server
Fri, 14 November 2008
Since way back in 2006 there has been a very handy right click Publish option for Web Application projects, but how do you extend it?
Sun, 19 October 2008
MVC, jQuery, developers heaven
Sat, 27 September 2008
The problem with Content Management on-line is the users ability to paste any old HTML into the page editor
Tue, 9 September 2008
Creates a database structure from an object model tagged with attributes
Sat, 30 August 2008
Windows Home Server (WHS) provides for extension through add-ins, only thing is they are loaded into the host AppDomain, which means one App.Config, which means...
Tue, 5 August 2008
Adding a slash to the end of a link to a directory turns out to be important - who knew, oh, you knew, well I didn't ...
Fri, 1 August 2008
You load an image from a stream, you then try to covert it to a byte array by loading it into another stream - BANG! Your 40.
Thu, 31 July 2008
Mostly this week oi ave been working on the new version of the Web Gallery
Wed, 16 July 2008
I have decided to make my data access layer IQueryable... why!
Thu, 3 July 2008
Moving to a new source control (Sub)Version... oo its very good
Wed, 2 July 2008
I was looking for a tool to test a regular expression...
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