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Bureaucratic nonsense – or how cookies are going to end the internet

Today website developers in the EU (not including UK for the time being) have to inform users explicitly that they are about to place a cookie on their machine. They will then need to inform the user that they need to set another cookie on their machine to remember that they have given permission to [...]

Depude and randomise 2 lists

I was asked to take 2 lists of names and dedupe the newer list with the names in the older list, so we only had a list of new names in a specific period (no dates here to help out!). Turned out to be a lot simpler than I thought. At first I thought Excel [...]

customErrors, ResponseRewrite, aspxerrorpath

I had the pleasure today to be dealing with another pain in the arse issue with asp.net. I do love .net, I will not become a PHP programmer as I feel it is more robust, in most areas! But just sometimes you wish Microsoft would think before they add a feature! <customerrors mode="On" defaultredirect="/error.html"> <error [...]

iheartmyyogi.com

It’s been a while since I last posted something on my blog. I have basically been putting in to practice some of the things I have preaching about. But I have also been spending time practicing my yoga. Yes, am a geek and I do yoga…I think that makes me geek chic! Or uber geek? [...]

Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll Scripting IIS 7.0 on Vista

This is not a full article on how to script IIS7.0. It’s about getting to that point on how to do it. And as per usual the internet was full of incomplete information. Here’s my complete solution when I faced problems. Firstly the namespace Microsoft.Web.Administration was not available, nor was it in the .NET of [...]

ASP.NET __doPostBack is not defined

Wow! What a fucking morning! I came into work today to get something working. That something should have been real easy to do (you don’t need to know what it is, just that it was going to be real easy). I exported a copy of the core code, associated it to my website so that [...]

Elphants never forget

For the past 6 months I have been helping a complete stranger to me fix his website. And I wasn’t even asking for money! WTF?!? I got more in return – I have been learning about WordPress and how to break it, and fix it, oh and break it again! The website in question is [...]

ASP.NET ValidationSummary – Stopping the scroll back to top

I came across an issue today with a validation summary form on a sign up form. The form was at the bottom of a page containing much text…well that’s what was in the design and it will probably turn into “Please sign up here” once the client get’s their hands on it. But that’s par [...]

Uploadify your large files in .NET

With the increase in memory for servers and the subsequent decrease in price, you’d have thought .net would have had a better way to upload files of a larger persuasion built in. Nope! So when I found Uploadify I thought, ooh that’s nice! And I have to thank William Duffy (again!!) for this find. It [...]

Facebook’s Graph API and ASP.net

Am enthralled with the new Facebook API. It’s awesomely simple to use. I mean really simple to use. They have changed the authentication process as well, and fuck me it’s so so much simpler than before. Previously I integrated Facebook Connect with iMapFlickr, to allow uses to post to their own wall automatically, saying that [...]