Al Priest’s Blog

Here it is - On One Map - http://ononemap.com/
At last someone has integrated Google Maps with estate agents’ feed in the UK. Whilst there has been a mashup of US craigslist and google maps for a while, this is the first time i’ve seen it done in the UK. It get its’ detail from a [...]

If you add encarta@conversagent.com to your MSN IM contacts list, you can ask it questions. Neat. It’ll even open Encarta in a sidebar in Messenger to answer your question in more detail.
From Chris Sells’ blog.

One of the few pages from a set of Gmail power tips, this page shows you how to use Plus Addressing. Essentially it lets you have many email addresses based on your single gmail one, and then filter/block them at will. i.e. you don’t have to give out your real email address to companies. Of [...]

The Google / Amazon / etc search box in Firefox is very useful, but a little bit bigger (or at least a customisable width) would make it so much nicer. Today I came across an extension which provides a ‘grab’ handle to let you resize the search box to suit your needs.

So, you write your form tags and the browser renders extra space after the closing tag. Solution linked below.
Problems with extra vertical space after forms

I’ve just been reading up on mocks for testing and they look like a pretty neat and powerful way to improve your testing. I’ve written this sample code based on the example Martin Fowler gives in his excellent article.
This example is of an order which attempts to fullfil itself from a Warehouse. Here’s the Warehouse [...]

In your ASPX page, add the following such that it renders in the top-right of the popup window

And add this code such that it renders in the bottom-left of the popup window

Then add the following Javascript to your page and make a call to resizeThisWindow().
// Default window dimensions to add to the size we ‘read’ [...]

This is a great stored procedure you can use to generate SQL insert statements from your data. Kind of like how my SQL Data Export did some years ago, but this runs from inside SQL so is potentially a bit more portable.

Google Maps UK has now gone live. This gives you a great alternative to using multimap, streetmap, the RAC, etc and ebbs away at the market share of products like Autoroute.
Given the satellite map integration that Google recently added to their US versions, it won’t be long before we can expect that here too (not [...]

If you’re running Firefox and want to stop those darn popups which are getting more clever and avoiding the built-in popup blocker, install this extension. It blocks all popups by default, allowing you to whitelist just those sites that you allow. It’s still in beta, but when you test against http://www.popuptest.com/ nothing appears (WARNING: If [...]