Been having some “issues” trying to serialize datetime fields from infopath to SQL2005. The problem lies in the serialization expects a fully qualified datetime value including locale e.g. 2006-09-20T01:56:45+10:00. However, Infopath, and XML in general doesn’t record the local e.g. … Continued
Bit rusty on the old xsl transforms…but i had a case today where i needed to add a namespace to search one file, but my output file i need to not have that namespace. It’s actually really easy, once you … Continued
Thought it’d be easier to put the comments here than make a GIANT comment on Frank’s blog. Comments on Tech Ed that most come to mind: Tech Ed The venue – in general it was well layed out and had … Continued
For some reason the built in gettop and getleft methods from Virtual earth don’t work consistantly across all interfaces. Try this more generic function instead. function SetMapOffsets(obj) { if (obj.offsetParent) { mapleft = obj.offsetLeft maptop = obj.offsetTop while (obj = … Continued
I accidentally turned on sticky keys in XP today. Which, if you’ve ever done makes it really hard to write code, and especially to search Google to switch off. To get rid of Sticky Keys press both Shift keys at … Continued
If you have played with Virtual Earth you will have noticed that if you click on a pushpin it actually cancels the mouseover event and your popup ballon doen’t appear. To fix this you need to add an onclick event … Continued
A little trick for when you add your custom Pushpin in Virtual Earth, if you need to modify the postion of the pin slighty to line up the point of pin or centre of crosshair with the correct pixel you … Continued
Noticed this annoncement on ASX today…7 to take 33% in Engin. We’ve had Engin for awhile now and we love it. Our phone bill went down from $80/mth to about $13/mth. We get to use our existing phone, have a … Continued
A nice new feature in Virtual Earth is the addition of polygons. If you have used polylines then with one additional line of code to set the fill colour you can do polygons. function DrawPoly(id,points,width,color) { poly = new VEPolygon(id,points); … Continued
The Virtual Earth control was updated today to include a number of bug fixes. One important one was to support polylines in firefox and change the z-order so that pushpins appear on top. Here is a little shot of it … Continued
So we downloaded the 2.5 GB Vista RC1 and installed on our DIY media center in the hope it’d fix a few things that annoy us. Unfortuantly, we now have the world’s most expensive dvd player that only operates using a … Continued
Looks like i’m not as angry as i thought: You Are 44% Angry Generally, you are not an angry person.But you’re easily frustrated and enraged. You have one heck of a temper.And because of your anger, you tend to … Continued
The amount of resources at our election on saturday got me thinking about how much it costs the tax payers of Australia. Did you know a federal election cost in excess of $100 million?http://www.aec.gov.au/_content/when/elections/costs.htm Cost of the 2004 federal election: … Continued
It never ceases to amaze me how manual and error prone the election system is. Now i know you can check your electoral information on the internet, and they definatly store it in a database cause they sent us a … Continued
This weekend all of Queensland will vote for a new state government. The problem is who do we vote for, i don’t know anybody listed in my seat? How about a website that lists each poly with what they actually … Continued
Useful little function and logic to convert to decimal degrees for use with Virtual Earth private double degreesMinutesSecondsToDecimal(string degminsec) { //Divide the number of seconds by 60, 28.79 ÷ 60 = 0.5166. //Add the result to the number of minutes, … Continued
With so much code be written in javascript for modern web2.0 sites it is important to start using namespaces to ensure your code can won’t conflict with other functions and varibles. This is a nice technique that also allows for … Continued
If you’re having problems when you check out a file that it hasn’t got the latest content make sure you uncheck the “Always check out the working folder version of files” option in VSS