Al’s Blog

Sometimes you need to pass multiple parameters into SQL Server Reporting Service.
Unfortunately Microsoft didn’t include this functionality in the first release, although they’re rumoured to be looking into this. This means that if you want to include a bunch of parameters and pass them through to an SQL ‘IN’ statement it’s a little awkward, but [...]

Star Wars 3 Trailer

This will link to an external Javascript file. You need the charset attribute if your external file is using international symbols (e.g. £ or $). Also, don’t use inline regular expressions (var rex = /foo/gi;) instead use proper object definitions (var rex = new RegExp(”foo”, “gi”);)
<script charset=”ISO-8859-1″ type=”text/javascript” xsrc=”/money.js” mce_src=”/money.js”></script>

Quite an amusing background for your PC. Now if only I could lift my monitor up, take a photo and do it here at work.
Transparent Screens - a photoset on Flickr

ASP.NET by default sniffs Firefox and incorrectly identifies it as being a down-level browser. This has the effect of emitting ’simple’ HTML without various CSS attributes. To fix it, view this blog and update your web.config (or machine.config if you have access).

I went to the Disney Resort Paris for the weekend. Although it’s intended for small kids, the group of us that went found it very enjoyable.
Recommended for the grown ups: Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster (fast, pitch black ride, strongly recommended), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril (in 2000 Disney reversed the cars to make [...]

The Code Project - The 30 Minute Regex Tutorial - .NET

Hot Maps have a large number of city maps from around the world. Zoom, pan, scroll, and find a street functionality is included, and all for free.
Note that the site is written in German, so if you jump in here instead then choose the Union Jack flag symbol it will change some of the words [...]

Here are some key IT people talking about their fields of expertise, either via the phone or recorded at a conference. Each ‘conversation’ lasts anywhere from 15-90 minutes so they make for ideal listening on the tube. Registration required, but it’s free and the conversations are available in streaming, MP3, and AAC formats.
http://www.itconversations.com/
And my most [...]