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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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As I was walking around the local Geranium Festival at the weekend (they completely shut down the center of our sleepy little town for a bunch of vendors to set up stalls) I came across a guy doing caricatures . We've had them done for the kids a
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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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From wikipedia : A jobsworth is a person who uses his or her job description in a deliberately obstructive way, "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations". The term comes from the phrase "I can't
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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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Don't believe anything you read today. I know better, but I still forgot the date and believed Daniel had sold his company . His post was very well done, but I still think my old April Fool's Joke was better. Back in 2005 it was more believable
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LOL, the best use yet for our awesome shared family calendar(s): the answer to the age-old question.. "What's for dinner, Mom?" Tara created a new shared calendar called Menu and added "all-day" appointments (just because they
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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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I came across some great quotes this evening from a business forum I recently joined..think about them. When you complain.. " 80% of the people don't care about your problems, and the other 20% are glad you have them " Another.. " People
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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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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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