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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

Today i had to filter an xml document based on the start value of an attribute and it took me ages to work it out as before i’d always done exact matches.  Plus couldn’t find any egs where they used … Continued

1:30 youtube video showing how to find australian places and street at mygeoland.com. Shows off the 3D mode of Virtual Earth.

mygeoland.com, the new way to search for places in Australia. Powered by Virtual Earth 3D and customised by Soul Solutions for Australia we believe it is the simplest, fastest and coolest way to find a street, suburb or place in … Continued

Got asked to work out the number of lines of real code in our project today.  Came across a pretty cool tool called slick edit – Free gadgets that plug in to VS2005.  There’s a few gadgets there but i … Continued

Well i’ve been working from home for 2 weeks now.  I must say that overall I am enjoying it. I thought that not being on a bus for 2 hours every day would be a good thing…but i’ve realised it … Continued

So lately I’ve been converting some SOAP WebServices to Rest webservices.  There’s lots of papers on REST but atm there’s no real standards, just guidelines.  As far as i can tell, it’s just passing data using HTTP. So if i … Continued

Some interesting videos from the developers of Virtual earth V4 (3D) http://www.on10.net/Blogs/laura/virtual-earth-3d-the-next-dimension-in-search-well-at-least-the-third-dimension-/ http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=254128 I need to get myself an xbox controller!