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Quick shout out to Peter-Paul Koch at QuirksMode.org for his very nice javascript browser detection script. Clever, and definately deserved more than a tweet. ASP.NET 3.5 Web Hosting: 3 Months FREE + FREE Setup - CLICK HERE! Share this post: email it!
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After developing for *cough* some time it's not often that I come across a new style of URL that I've never even heard of before. A few days ago I saw a forum post about a 404 message someone got about their geotrust smartseal badge. I followed
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Until today I have been reviewing my gmail spam folder each day or so, and marking all new spam as read when I've reviewed it. Most of the time that works ok, but I've noticed that there are times when I get spam with a presumably deliberately
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First, always keep the wrapping, even the little twisty ties that keep the wires tidy. Keep the paperwork and the CD's - and I try to open the tamper-proof stickers with a sharp knife so that I don't rip the paperwork. I'm getting very good
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Rick Strahl: What can you keep in your Head? +1 ASP.NET 3.5 Web Hosting: 3 Months FREE + FREE Setup - CLICK HERE! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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I was having loads of fun getting a "borrowed" web service running on the staging server yesterday. As with all code that you take without asking, there are always.. shall we say, "hiccups". Apparently every line in the web.config
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As I find them.. Gmail: I've seen 20-30 good emails caught in spam, so check it often while you train it. Since I don't want to check the same message twice, I mark the spam as read whenever I check it. Then, to check just the unread spam you
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The best ASP.NET CMS yet, our own Graffiti, is in the running for the asp.netPRO annual Readers Choice award . If you've played with it, you'll know why we're excited. Our old Dozing Dogs CMS came in second in it's first year in this event
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Newbie tip. This is good: if (error.Contains("Declined")).. Not so much: if (error.IndexOf("Declined") != -1).. Guess which seems to be more common in code P.S. Yes, I have old code with examples of the latter. Doesn't count. ASP.NET
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To copy your personal calendar to google, use their new synch tool ... ..and then uninstall it. It crashed my wife's Outlook 2003 almost every hour when it synched up, and I'm still finding strange entries in my Deleted Items folder in Outlook
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This was interesting - I had a uniqueidentifier as an output parameter from a sproc and wanted to put it into a Guid. Guid guid = (Guid)sqlCmd.Parameters["@UserID"].Value; No. That throws System.InvalidCastException : Invalid cast from 'System.String'
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I'm quite looking forward to reviewing links between my sites and others, and applying XFN's rel="me", rel="friend" etc. Read more about XFN and check out this cool video from Google (via shoemoney). Share this post: email
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My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month
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Perhaps I should name 5 other people to modify this script when I'm done. First, it was Wyatt , then Jon , then Rich - and probably many others. Well, it's my turn dammit. I keep getting code from contractors that have _svn folders in them - and
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I was just reading Jason Alexander's new blog post about an old code drop for Authorize.net and was trying to find the old post he was referring to. Obviously, I went to Google to find the old cache; http://www.google.com/search?q=authorize.net+jason+alexander
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