With mixed emoticons I opened an email from support@mvpaward.com today, here we go I thought, someone is having an april fools day prank, but as I read the email, clicked on the link, agreed to the NDA and received my MSDN … Continued
Yes camera phones take pretty aweful photos but i stumbled onto a cool 1/3 effect on the JASJAM while scrabling to take a photo of Darren mountain biking today. The setting merges 3 quick photos into a single long one … Continued
Picked myself up one of these from Think Geek. Fitting that goes on the end of a tap that lights up when water goes through it…and temperature sensitive to give red / blue light. Was a bit worried about the … Continued
I come across this trick every so often so thought it best to write it down. In the AJAX world it seems this is more and more common, why would i ever want to post back again? If you have … Continued
I just booked my flight to attend the Virtual Earth Seminar in Sydney on April 2nd. It is out at North Ryde so if anyone wants to share a cab ride I am flying in on Qantas at 11:15am.
I needed to turn on content expiration for a single file and wanted to do it through IIS so i didn’t have to write code (lazy me). Cause i’m blind took me a while to find. To set a single … Continued
I installed Visual Studio Team Suite awhile back and haven’t had to use TFS yet. So now I want to use TFS, there’s no “Connect to TeamFoundation Server” option under tools. After looking at MSDN I discover you have to … Continued
I had a problem where i had a UDF on 2 databases with the same data that were returning different results. The query that was running was basically: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Comment WHERE Date <> NULL DB1 would give me … Continued
I’m not going to debate the merits and flaws in UAC but here is a tip for those people that use UAC and hate the video mode change that causes that annoying flicker. In group policy editor – gpedit.msc there … Continued
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting an evening of Virtual Earth at the April meeting of the QLD MSDN user group. If you would like to attend please come along. So does anyone have any specific … Continued
Its been a long time comming but i published today my 2nd revision of the very popular article on clustering virtual earth pins. This revision utilises MS AJAX web services and the server side code is in C#. Full example … Continued
I seem to do this accidentally all the time…I hit the Don’t show Check In dialog box when checking in items. To get it back goto Tools ->Options Open Source Control -> Environment and untick the “Don’t show Checkin dialog … Continued
Was playing around with ASP.Net membership providers and I’d created a few users and roles and everything looked happy. Then i ran my application and I just couldn’t log in. Upon investigation the app thought that there were 0 users … Continued