I upgraded our site to the latest version of Dotnetnuke today. I have been playing with the new DNN4.4 recently and it does perform better. I’m a little confused by a couple of things. The error logs have changed xml format … Continued
My dad sent me the photo bellow the other day. It’s a 5MB hdd from 1956. When you look at that pic, it’s SCARY how small memory storage has become in 50 years. As a comparison….below is a photo of … Continued
Broke the Jas Jam already 🙁 Got my new 2GB micro SD card for the JasJam this morning. Put it in, and it just kept going…couldn’t click it back out! Of course John’s was fine (I always get the duds). … Continued
We’ve turned 100 . Well not 100 in years, but in blog posts. Since the 6th August 2006 we’ve now done 100 blog posts. No match for someone like Frank, and we kinda cheated cause there’s 2 of us blogging…but … Continued
I’m sure many of you are in the same boat with email spam. The latest attack here is spam pretending to be a mail returned message. Well I think i have a simple idea to put an end to it. Currently … Continued
For some reason SQL 2005 help is showing “help on help”. Very frustrating. What i need is a simple reference of the correct function names like ROUND() etc. Anyway this is the best i could find from MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174318.aspx
We got new JasJams the other week. I really like the phone, especially the keyboard…makes it so much more useable. Only trouble i was having with it, was i couldn’t get to my phone and answer it in time if … Continued
In this article I will explain how to design a Virtual Earth application to load its pushpin content on demand. Although this technique is very well suited for use in high performance sites combined with Clustering and encoding I will … Continued
Couple of handy javascript properties i can never remember off the top of my head to get url and query string data: To get the anchor position of url:this.location.hash To get the query string of the url:this.location.searchsubstring(1);
I’m starting to wonder if there’s anywhere that can reliably print a decent representation of digital photos. It seems to be a bit hit and miss getting them printed. When i first started printing photos I used to get them … Continued
We decided since our mobiles were really old and the batteries were really dead that it was time to upgrade our phones. I’d been looking at the K-Jam and the Jamin for awhile…and knew that they were pretty easy to … Continued
The plan is to produce a Virtual Earth article every week or two. This is the planned list: Encoding Latitude and Longitude pairs for performance Loading your pushpin popup content on demand Clustering Virtual Earth V2 Throttling AJAX webservices Exploring … Continued
Been trying to book a trip to Tassie…manged to book the flights and car online but the accommodation just wasn’t as easy. I was a bit surprised that only 1 of the 3 places we were staying had “online booking”. … Continued
In Virtual Earth we use lat/lon pairs everywhere, for pushpins, polylines and polygons but also for map bounds like the current view. This article aims to look at a better way to store and transmit these values. The encoding algorithm … Continued
I absolutely hate shopping..especially for clothes and grocery shopping. There’s always lots of people, dodgy shopping carts, and queues at the checkout. I’m always much happier if i can search for stuff i want and buy it online without having to battle the … Continued
Wanted a watermark on a text box similar to local.live.com and came across Deobrat’s post which i found really useful. I’ve converted the code to c# and used the textbox.ClientID instead of ID as we are using anthem etc ID doesn’t … Continued
Over the xmas break we were having a general discussion with one of our house guests and somehow ended up talking about how their staff like to use messenger. To my surprise, but also now my interest, this person went … Continued
Ok so my solution was to use the code from Omar and enhance it for my needs: http://www.codeproject.com/Ajax/aspnetajaxtips.asp I have done two things. The first was to check the queue for the same method name and if it exists replace … Continued