This flash animation is both clever and funny. [via bbspot ]
June 22, 2006
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Monthly Archives: June 2006
June 21, 2006
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Relative Images in Redirected Pages
I’ve just discovered a bug/issue when using redirected pages. Let’s assume I have the following in a page (Animal.aspx) <asp:Image id=”i1″ runat=”server” ImageUrl=”~/Images/foo.jpg” /> In web.config I have: <urlMappings enabled=”true”> <add url=”~/Animals/Dog.aspx” mappedUrl=”~/Animal.aspx?Animal=Dog” /> </urlMappings> Run the page and … Continue reading
June 20, 2006
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Windows Live Messenger Setup
I’ve just downloaded and installed Windows Live Messenger and have come to the conclusion that the insaller sucks. Half way through a dialog pops up indicating that I must close some programs: Outlook, and one isntance each of Word and … Continue reading
June 12, 2006
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Illustrated ASP.NET 2.0
At long last, the lasted Al and Dave book is out (my copies have just arrived). ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated isn’t just an update from the old beta books, but is around 80-90% rewrite. It does reuse some code and text … Continue reading
June 5, 2006
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SQL Server Dependencies
SQL Server 2005 supports notifications, allowing it to tell you when data has changed. This is useful for many reasons, invalidating the ASP.NET cache for example. Someone asked me about this at DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper (which was most excellent as usual) and … Continue reading
June 2, 2006
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Reader, you’re a right dimwit
I’ve known about this practice for a long time. Those of us involved in the publishing industry understand it. Publishers want to sell books and the best way to do that is have them prominently displayed. It’s called advertising and … Continue reading