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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

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

Had a look through our logs to find the 6 most popular blog entries of 2006.  Seems like ppl are interested in virtual earth, elections and turning off sticky keys… 1.Clustering a million points on Virtual Earth using AJAX and .Net … Continued

Merry Christmas everyone. It’s been a busy and fun year in the world of software development. I’ve upgraded to Vista, Office 2007, IIS7, SQL 2005, .Net2, built a media centre and found Virtual Earth and AJAX all in one year! … Continued

Sorting a datatable…just one of those things i always end up looking up… Just set the default view sort string….e.g. DataTable dt; dt.DefaultView.sort = “CreateDate desc”;

Always one I have to look up….but if you’ve got an xsd it’s really simple to turn it into a class.  Just use the xsd.exe tool.  Options i usually use are: /c (to generate classes) /l:CS (class in c#)  /n:somenamespace /o:outputdir … Continued

I recently finished up with an Australian company developing an advanced prototype for fleet tracking / reporting. As part of the project I had to propose a mapping technology. Out of all the options available Virtual Earth is feature rich, … Continued

Santa’s sled in the form of a courier driver dropped off my xmas present early on Friday. The Dell 24″ is the pick of the developers monitors at the moment. A screen resolution of 1920×1200 is perfect for visual studio. … Continued

Been using a little tool called Fiddler to inspect and play wth HTTP traffic.  I love tools that make things simple for me, and this thing has proven to be super simple to use.  Been using it mainly for inspecting … Continued

I’ve just finished up with the project I was working on and come January will be ready for a new challenge. If anyone knows of, or is planning, a really challenging project using Virtual Earth, AJAX, .Net2 and SQL server … Continued

This one always gets me…and have to look it up.  To dynamically add a web user control do use: LoadControl(“control.ascx”)  

Needed to apply mulitple css classes to one element today.  Pretty easy once you know it’s just space delimited e.g. <DIV class=”greenbox clearfix”> </DIV>

Had a problem where i had 2 floating divs inside a container box that had a visible border.  It wasn’t forcing the container box height correctly. Found the solution here..(thanks to Holly ‘n’ John) To summarise…the CSS class you need … Continued