Posted in .NET, Computers on December 21st, 2004 No Comments »
Microsoft have just released the pilot episode of “The Code Room”, an MSDN reality show in which real developers have to develop something given tight deadlines. Yes, it really is as boring as it sounds and goes to demonstrate why reality TV and software development haven’t been mixed previously.
The Code Room is probably the worst [...]
Posted in Computers, Firefox, Internet on December 17th, 2004 No Comments »
Install the following extensions to switch to Firefox from Opera…
ReloadEvery
Mouse Gestures 1.0
ieview
x
and the funky Plastikfox Crystal SVG theme.
Posted in Computers, Google, Internet on December 15th, 2004 No Comments »
Those people over at Google have just released a Beta version of their Google Suggest. This is just like normal Google, except that as you type it guesses what you’re trying to search for based on the most popular previous searches.
On a related note, over at WordCount.org you can see what the 88,000ish most popular [...]
Posted in Computers, HTML, Programming on December 14th, 2004 No Comments »
Well it’s not everyday it happens is it? There I was reading Jakob Neilsons’ article on Radiobuttons and checkboxes and I happened across the <label> HTML tag. Okay, so its only part of the HTML4 recommendation but it appears to work in Firefox and IE.
It basically lets you increase the target size of your radiobutton [...]
Posted in Computers, Programming, SQL on December 9th, 2004 No Comments »
Another example of using OPENXML to get data into SQL Server from ADO/ADO.NET. This one will fail when the Xml chunk you pass in is bigger than 8000 characters (ntext limitation). However you can pass an XmlDocument stream object to ADO and do that instead and avoid this limitation. MSXML3 or newer needed.
Here’s the [...]
