Al Priest’s Blog

Like a lot of people i’ve pondered the ‘killer app’ over a pint, but these days i’m coming to the conclusion that everything has been invented, duplicated, and cloned to death. So rather than inventing new apps, i’ve been pondering the idea of making the apps become location - or familiarity - sensitive. Combine this [...]

Or, how to convert a jagged result set into a CSV from within MS SQL server (2005+):

CREATE FUNCTION
dbo.GetKeywordList(@VideoModuleID uniqueidentifier)
RETURNS VARCHAR(Max)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @csv VARCHAR(MAX)

SELECT @csv [...]

The recent ‘Take 2′ Apple TV update has saved the small square box under my telly from EBay. 1080p output, rental HD movies, and now streaming internet radio have given it a real lease of life.
Now I realise that it’s meant to be just a media extender, but as it’s just a Mac under the [...]

From CoolHunting

“By installing Eye-Fi software on your computer and using the 2GB card in your camera in place of a regular SD card, you can use your home WiFi network to automatically upload photos via easy-to-use software. It’s really that simple.”

Slight downside that you have to install software - I hope this software can be [...]

I just got home and the TV told me it had found a software update so I took a picture with my phone. I’m slightly perplexed as to where it downloaded the update from though…!

I’m jumping on the bandwagon of Ben and Mark regarding feed statistics. If you’re subscribed to the feed, why not make my day and update your feed to the URL below.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/alpriest

Mac only: Don’t want or need the exact time in your menu bar, why not change it for Fuzzy Clock which gives you just that - an approximation of the current time.

There are also a bunch of various languages including the usual Elmer Fudd, Pig Latin and the great Pimp.

Because I always forget how to do this, and because it saves so much time when you enable it, here’s the link for Enabling NHibernate debug

Spent a while trying to get sub-projects opening within Visual Studio today where the root project has SSL security setup. Every time VS tried to open the sub-projects it would error with the message “Secure channel failed”.
Figured it out eventually - you need to add a location element to the web.config for the get_aspx_ver.aspx to [...]