Archives
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If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers
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Job opportunity
A friend of mine has told me about a job opening at his company. I would have loved to have gone for it myself, it's a great company, but unfortunately I have a wife and kid to support with long term security but for the right person this will be a great contract - see below.
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JPG compression
Here is a sneak preview of my latest ASPAlliance article - how to set image quality by setting JPEG compression level with GDI+
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Soapbox
A couple of bloggers have mentioned the division between OO clued up coders and VB'ers. I would just like to point out that
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Doom and gloom
More figures about the uk new media scene look gloomy and more and more companies are outsourcing to india. Who would want to be a developer right now? :O(
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Flash on Phones
http://www.silicon.com/news/500018-500001/1/2994.html?nl=d20030225
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Xdocs
10 things to know about XDocs [Via Sean Campbell]
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About me
Roy mentions the need for an "about" page on a blog - I feel excluded from this as I have a whole site dedicated to me me me! ;O)
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Heh heh
Do you read NTK? :O)
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And the moral of the story is ..
Thanks to Plip (have you got a blog??) a security hole was fixed in one of my sites today. It's that old problem of writing something quick and temporary and then leaving it there forever. I am afraid I am a lazy programmer when it comes to my own stuff and I tend to do these "tactical quick-wins" as a colleague likes to call them ("hacks" is probably more accurate) more often than I would like to admit.
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UK New Media in the toilet?
http://www.brandrepublic.com/digitalbulletin/news_story.cfm?articleID=170902
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Bug Tracking
Alex is looking for bug tracking software. I have never used this (use a spreadsheet - the shame!) but fogbugz is supposed to be good..
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More on the SPV issue ..
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MP3 player or SPV?
Ollies blog post got me thinking, perhaps I should consider getting one of them there Orange smart phones instead of an MP3 player?
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'Nigerian' money scams
I get at least one a day of these, I think because I am on a lot of mailing lists which are easy pickings for spammers to trawl through to make their target lists. It's nice to see the scammers on the end of a wind up for a change
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ASP.NET on Linux
I am digging the old PC out of the loft to set up a <shock>Linux Box</shock>. I know this is against my church of Microsoft religion but it is in a good cause - develop cross platform ASP.NET code :O)
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Back from the continent
So I am back, Disney'ed-out, knackered, but happy.
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Suggestions?
I have a wibbleshanks mailing list (mailto: wibbleshanks-subscribe@realworldasp.net ) and I want to make an automatic web archive. Any suggestions how I can do this without requiring an AT job (I used poverty shared cheapo hosting).
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May the Force be with you
"The Force is evidently still strong with the Star Wars legacy - Jedi is the chosen "religion" for thousands of people in Britain, according to newly released census results. "
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Lucky Londoners
4mps an I can only get ISDN
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I knew Bill Shatner had taste
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Zen, Archos or Ipod??
Which MP3 player to buy? Deadline has passed so no pressure, wanted one for my long coach journey on friday (paris) as my Jornada has only around 2 hours battery life and the compact flash memory card I have is only 128mb.
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Dynamically created database forms
Pascal wants to dynamically generate forms. I did some code for my own use (ie. "no, I ain't showing you it") and while it works and I can point it at any database table and just start editing, I have abandoned it. Just too fudged and kludged to put any faith in really.
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Namecheck
MattP still hasn't updated his site. Come on Matt, I need entertaining here!
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Back Asswards
Am I weird?
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Me too #2
So we are all "me too"ing Ingos design - all I am going to say on the subject is
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Lead with the benefits
In between writing up course notes for a class I am teaching tomorrow I have been trying to think of catchy lines for banner ads. A prominent .NET web site has offered me a couple of free weeks banner placement and I don't want to waste the opportunity with "get yer ASP.NET training here".
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Documentation
I am ashamed to say I have never written or seen a decent set of documentation for any code project ever :( Ingo claims to love writing documentation - Ingo or anyone else, I would love to see a copy of some docs you are particularly proud of!
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Wohoo - new home!
I have fallen out with Ecademy. I've decided it's not the place for me.