March 2003 - Posts

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The nudists return... by Tim Marman

Awhile back I wrote that a high percentage of nudists must shop at Amazon , because Amazon felt it was necessary to make the distinction between customers who wear clothes and those who don't. Well, it happened again, and this time I managed to get a...
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More on popups by Tim Marman

Pascal writes : As Pascal discovered the hard way, Internet Explorer always stacks something like a SELECT drop-down list on top of a normal HTML element, regardless of what z-index you use for each of them. That is because SELECT (and a handful of other...
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Windowed controls by Tim Marman

As Pascal discovered the hard way, Internet Explorer always stacks something like a SELECT drop-down list on top of a normal HTML element, regardless of what z-index you use for each of them. That is because SELECT (and a handful of other elements) are...
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A rant about one particular traffic cop by Tim Marman

I'm really glad I don't have to drive in the city. Every morning, I walk past a block stretch that is usually pretty busy, and as such they have a number of traffic cops in the area. The major intersection is right at Bowling Green, where Broadway feeds...
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Faint by Tim Marman

The opening of Faint, track 7 off Linkin Park's Meteora, absolutely rocks. Just wanted to share that with everyone :)
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Where do you get your truth from? by Tim Marman

I checked out sirshannon 's site after seeing it in the comments of Phil's post. He has an interesting story about two cases of untruthful companies. Assuming what true (grin), it's quite troubling. Not that I really ever held Fox News in high regard...
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Google and dots by Tim Marman

Phil writes : What I think is funny about this example is that search for ADO.NET on the sneaky Microsoft Google search ( http://www.google.com/microsoft ) won't work. Give it a shot. As sirshannon pointed out in the comments, using quotes around it will...
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Smart clients revisited by Tim Marman

I've been thinking a little more about Chris' presentation and the whole "smart client" thing in general. It's definitely very cool from a purely technical perspective, and the possibilities if you're already using a WinForms application are pretty exciting...
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A new beginning.... by Tim Marman

What a beautiful weekend it was. It reminds me of why I pay so much to live here - there's really nothing better than a nice spring day in NYC. I also finished up on a major project I was working on at work. I feel quite refreshed, and I'm finally starting...
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Having a longer Session by Tim Marman

Increasing the length of a Session in an ASP.NET application is a simple enough process. You can simply edit the sessionState node in web.config or machine.config. < sessionState mode ="InProc" stateConnectionString ="tpip=127.0.0.1:42424" sqlConnectionString...
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