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Get Free Typemock licenses – ASP.NET bundle launch

ca8msm — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:25:00 GMT

Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy. Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers. The ASP.NET Bundle...(read more)

Windows 7 Public Beta - Download Link

ca8msm — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:13:00 GMT

I've heard a few people saying they couldn't find the link to the public Windows 7 Beta link, so if you are one of these people, please visit the following page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx...(read more)

ASP.NET "Hacks" Series at LessThanDot

ca8msm — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:18:00 GMT

At LessThanDot , we've decided to release a series of articles, tips and tricks which will be known as the "Hacks" series. The first installment was the popular SQL Server Programming Hacks and this week sees the release of the ASP.NET Hacks . These hacks...(read more)

SQL Server MVP - Denis Gobo

ca8msm — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:13:00 GMT

I just wanted to say a big congratulations to a friend of mine, Denis Gobo , on becoming a SQL Server MVP . Denis has taught me many things over the last few years with regards to SQL Server and he continues to be a fountain of knowledge on the subject...(read more)

Puzzle - Regular Pentagon

ca8msm — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:14:00 GMT

First of all, thank you to everyone who took part in the Friday The Thirteenths puzzle at LessThanDot . We had some great entries from all types of different languages such as .NET, SQL Server, VB6, VBA, ASP, VBScript, Javascript, Java, Perl, Ruby and...(read more)

Friday the Thirteenths

ca8msm — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:11:00 GMT

We've decided to do a recurring feature at LessThanDot and have a "Programmer Puzzles" section with interesting puzzles published. This week the challenge has been set to "identify all friday the thirteenths for a given timeframe". You can use any programming...(read more)

Microsoft Project - Velocity

ca8msm — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:18:00 GMT

Microsoft have announce details of project "Velocity", a distributed caching mechanism for .NET. The Velocity team describe it as: "Velocity is intended to provide distributed caching (in memory) for all .NET applications – from enterprise scale to web...(read more)

SQL Server Programming Hacks

ca8msm — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:49:00 GMT

Denis Gobo has just gathered a great selection of what he calls "a collection of frequently asked questions" and posted them in a new collection called SQL Server Programming Hacks . These include hacks from various categories such as: * 1 NULLS * 2 Dates...(read more)

LessThanDot goes live!

ca8msm — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:05:00 GMT

This morning saw the official launch of LessThanDot, a new IT Community. For more info on the site, please read my previous blog post on LessThanDot or come and visit us directly at LessThanDot . The IT Community of the 21st Century: http://www.lessthandot...(read more)

LessThanDot?

ca8msm — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:40:00 GMT

What have I been up to? It's been a while since I last wrote a blog on here, so what have I been up to? Well, it's been a very busy time for me as along with the birth of our first child, I've been working on a few startup projects. One of these that...(read more)

LINQ

ca8msm — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:57:00 GMT

I have mixed feelings about LINQ. I don't want it interfering with my database, and running queries against it so I think I'll be sticking to stored procedures for this type of access. However, there are also cases where I think it is very useful. Here...(read more)

IE7 Bug

ca8msm — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:21:00 GMT

Today I found a strange bug in IE7. If you have an unordered list, and you specifically give a height to each li element, the numbers reset themselves so each number ends up being "1"! Try this out! <! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN...(read more)

IE8 passes Acid2 test!

ca8msm — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:57:00 GMT

Whilst this may not be something deemed as particularly important by web users, web developers will be pleasantly surprised that the latest version of IE passes the Acid2 test: Read more... Is this a big milestone for IE and Microsoft? Should we expect...(read more)

Convert HTML tables to a DataSet

ca8msm — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:29:00 GMT

I've just had a requirement to extract some data from a web page and manipulate it before sending it off elsewhere. The data in the web page was all included inside <table> tags, so I wrote a few Regular Expressions to extract this data and place...(read more)

Clear your cache

ca8msm — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:32:00 GMT

I've just created a site management section for one of my sites, and one of the pages allows you to clear certain elements from the cache. I wanted an option to remove all cached objects but it doesn't appear to have a clear method. A way around this...(read more)