FYI: Bank cheques don’t have an expiry date. Personal cheques have a lifetime of 18 months. I had to go to the bank today, so took along one of John’s really old cheques from 2003 (it was a bank cheque) … Continued
Showed John this the other night..so thought might aswell blog it case someone else is interested. If you’re trying to create some data or need a GUID you can do it using an inbuilt tool in Visual Studio. … Continued
Been playing with using supplied XML to join to tables in a select statement. So i thought I’d do a simple example to remind myself next time i need to do it.. So i have the following xml structure: <Categories> … Continued
I’m running XP, and after a windows update I was getting svchoste.exe errors. This cause a range of weird errors on my machine, like the theme going back to XP Classic and a selected number of things not working. I … Continued
I just put together what i hope is a really good reference for anyone wanting to change the look and feel of the V4 virtual earth dashboard. Read the article. Please let me know if I have missed anything and … Continued
These guys have a really good article on ASP 2.0’s Membership, role and profiles. The part I found very useful was the section on adding the MS membership schema to an existing database. You can run the aspnet_regsql.exe tool from a … Continued
It is amazing how powerful and productive find and replace can be if you know the tricks of Regex in VS2005. Here are the main set: Expression Syntax Description Any character . Matches any single character except a line break. … Continued
Just had to do this on Vista today and got an interesting object error on line: Response.Redirect(“~/Install/Install.aspx?mode=Install”) I wonder if this has changed in IIS7 in integrated mode? Anyway the solution I found is to change to “classic mode” to … Continued
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There are now a stack of photos up on the look up and smile site. If you want a really fast way to browse through them the local.live gadget is the way to go:http://www.live.com/?add=http://www.lookupandsmile.com.au/gadget/LUASGadget.xml My favorites: Flag house possum in … Continued
In my search for ways to get the most out of my new adsl2 connection I came across an old article of tips and tricks including how to allow Internet explorer to have more then 2 simultaneous connections. I cannot … Continued
If you want to be able to script out one object per file and include the create and drop in the same file in SQL2005 either wait for SP2 (apparantly it’s coming then) of check out this guys cool called … Continued
Was trying to use the new SQL2005 ROW_NUMBER() function to get “paged” results. There’s a bit of a trick to using it though. Only way we could get it to work was to wrap inside another sql clause. E.g we … Continued
You’d think connecting a new phone line and linking it to your existing account would be a simple task? Apparantly not. The task was simple..I wanted a new phone line at my house so we could get ADSL2. I needed … Continued
I bought my lappy a few months ago. As it was around the time of talk of upgrade offers to Vista, we contacted Dell to see if we would qualify for the Dell Vista Upgrade. The sales guy then realised … Continued