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Emailing Unicode Emails to Hotmail - solved!
I n my last blog I asked how I could send unicode emails to hotmail , well Dave Wanta and www.AspNetEmail.com (no affiliate code, heh) to the rescue! The AspNetEmail message takes a CharSet property, so far so good As well as setting the CharSet to the...
Posted: Jun 07 2005, 05:27 PM by Chris Garrett | with no comments
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Emailing UTF-8 to Hotmail?
It looks suspiciously like Hotmail explicitly rejects viewing UTF-8 encoded email - is this correct? Unfortunately my content is in UTF-8 and I can't just ignore Hotmail users :O( I am using AspNetEmail and I tried using ISO-8859-1 as the characterset...
Posted: Jun 06 2005, 05:26 PM by Chris Garrett | with 9 comment(s)
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How do I get around the "The same table (xxxx) cannot be the child table in two nested relations" error?
I bet this is a schoolboy problem but even the mighty google is not helping. I am trying to read chunks of DMOZ RDF xml into a dataset. I am getting a "The same table (xxxx) cannot be the child table in two nested relations." error which I think I can...
Posted: May 19 2005, 03:20 PM by Chris Garrett | with 2 comment(s)
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Accessibility Champions fail their own tests
"DRC, the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) and the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID), the supposed standard bearers for website accessibility, continue to fail even the most basic A/AA requirements" http://www.business2www.com...
Posted: Jan 19 2005, 03:13 PM by Chris Garrett | with 1 comment(s)
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Spoiled by .NET, the pain of using PHP
This is not a PHP vs ASP.NET post, don't worry! My problem is not PHP, it's the fact I have to relearn a whole load of stuff that I have already learned once (or twice!) in my normal languages and the tools are just not as nice. It is so easy to just...
Posted: Jan 14 2005, 03:10 PM by Chris Garrett | with 5 comment(s)
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Cheap UK Internet Magazines Subscriptions
Don't you just love ASP and .NET? Because of Google Adwords recent TOS changes I have had to rapidly set up a site for my magazines campaign, thanks to these lovely web platforms I have been able to do this in double-quick time. I had scraped the merchants...
Posted: Jan 13 2005, 04:30 PM by Chris Garrett | with no comments
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Code Camps?
New one on me, never heard of them, looks interesting though. http://weblogs.asp.net/trobbins/archive/2004/12/12/280181.aspx via http://scottwater.com/blog/archive/2004/12/12/Code_Camp_Manifesto
Posted: Dec 21 2004, 11:26 AM by Chris Garrett | with no comments
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Little Britain
What does a Little Britain DVD have to do with .NET you might ask? As it happens I have been spending my spare moments (in between a particularly nasty t-sql problem) trying to figure out why certain data feeds are borking in .NET. Works out that .NET...
Posted: Dec 15 2004, 04:47 PM by Chris Garrett | with no comments
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Browscaps, ASP.NET Browser detection
Just lately I have had a nightmare with server-side browser detection. One day all designers will do standards compliant html code and all browsers will support standards. Until then we are stuck with detects, I like to do my detects server side but am...
Posted: Oct 05 2004, 05:00 PM by Chris Garrett | with no comments
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URL rewriting - how do YOU do it?
I am writing an article for aspalliance about making asp.net sites search engine friendly. This obviously brings me to the subject of URLs. Regardless of if you believe there is any benefit to a search engine ranking doing this I think it is a lot kinder...
Posted: Sep 17 2004, 09:34 PM by Chris Garrett | with 1 comment(s)
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