The stuff you stumble across on old machines. Here's a blast from 2002 when web-safe colours and image maps were topics for discussion. There are a bazillion pages to display web-safe colours, here's a simple one which shows hex values on hover/mouseover: Eli's Colour Picker And this is the original...

SharePoint makes use of FrontPage Themes, but FrontPage doesn't make it easy to get at the files which make up a theme. First some background and then we'll look at how to get more control over building and deploying a theme. When customizing a SharePoint template in FrontPage you access the available...

There are a lot of bytes online about handling exceptions in ASP.NET. This article presents a solution you can have running in an hour or two. From the introduction: “An ideal error page maintains the look and feel of the site, offers the ability to provide detailed errors to internal developers...

In feedback to the Collections and caching post, ServProvAdmin asked enough quick questions to fill a whole post. "What about usage in large web farms where there may be 200+ applications? What affinity might an admin run into?" Caching is well-suited to static data, dynamic data should be distributed...

Finally, the cone of silence is lifted. I'm one of the lucky ones to have a few months of hands-on with .NET 2.0 , and it really is as cool as the demos look. While the brain-feeding frenzy goes on in L.A., I'll share a few of my favourite things here. Partial Types. If you've been following the C# spec...

Why do sites insist on making people click a "Remember Me" checkbox? Unless you're a Hotmail.com with a highly-mobile user base on public machines, most of your users are coming from the same machines -- their own -- over and over. Make it an option, but save your users a click and turn it on by default...

With the updated Amazon Link Generator you can generate links to Amazon.com complete with your personal AssociateID easier than ever. Anyone who's used it knows that Amazon's own tool for the purpose is kinda klunky , and it's a hassle hacking together your own URLs. Now, just type your title (or author...

When writing blogs it is handy to include links to related books at Amazon.com . It points the reader to good resources, and if you have an AssociateID you can even make a few bucks when your click-throughs result in sales at Amazon. The hassle is hacking together the URLs with both the custom ASIN and...

The stuff you stumble across on old machines. Here's a blast from 2002 when web-safe colours and image maps were topics for discussion. There are a bazillion pages to display web-safe colours, here's a simple one which shows hex values on hover/mouseover: Eli's Colour Picker And this is the original...

SharePoint makes use of FrontPage Themes, but FrontPage doesn't make it easy to get at the files which make up a theme. First some background and then we'll look at how to get more control over building and deploying a theme. When customizing a SharePoint template in FrontPage you access the available...