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Published on 27 Jun 2008 from Charlie Barker
I wanted a way to get into the guts of monorail so I offered to create a website for the occupational health company that my mum works for. It is very much a work in progress, you can check it out here ProHealthUk if you want to see the CRUD click the admin link. When the site goes fully live 
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Published on 27 Jun 2008 from Charlie Barker
So tonight at about 8pm I sit down on the couch with a beer when I hear a knock at the door. When I answer it there two ladies and a gent all smartly dressed in suits. The woman asks me to confirm my name and address as shown on her clipboard she then starts a vauge diatribe about how I could save
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Published on 18 Jun 2008 from Nevron News
IntroductionThe requirements for presentation charts are always high and very often simple bars and lines are not enough to impress the audience. The rich feature set of Nevron Chart for .NET enables you to go beyond the limits of "ordinary" charts and opens a field of action for your imag
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Published on 11 Jun 2008 from Nevron News
Nevron Diagram has been designed from the ground up to meet a vast number of customization and extensibility requests. Built on top of the solid Model - View - Controller architecture it will provide your applications with consistent, intelligent and powerful diagramming abilities. Nevron Diagram fo
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Published on 11 Jun 2008 from Nevron News
Nevron Chart for .NET is powerful, flexible, extensible and user-friendly. It aims to provide your applications with data visualization capabilities, which will significantly improve the looks and penetration of your product. Nevron Chart for .NET is a unique component, because it combines visual ri
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Published on 26 May 2008 from Charlie Barker
I am building a course booking system in monorail and in the process of uploading the source to google code. This is basically a way for me to understand the MVC approach to building websites using the castle monorail project. I figured the code may be of use to others tackling similar tasks or who
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Published on 21 May 2008 from Better .NET
Sometimes I sit back and am amazed at the design tools we have today. As a single developer I can create a very functional web application in a matter of months. Even with the great tools we have today developers still face impediments to productivity. If you have any experience writing software the
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Published on 17 Apr 2008 from Charlie Barker
I was having difficulty getting to sleep last night and started wondering what happens to a persons blog when they die. Currently this blog lives on my server at home so I wouldn't reckon on it lasting too long after my passing should I be struck down by a Bus or Psyclist in london. Most folks who b
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Published on 17 Apr 2008 from Charlie Barker
Every now and then I have a half baked idea for a new kind of Gizmo, today I was staring at the mess of cables on my desk and thought up this. A device that replaces the multitude of cables that inhabit the back of your desk with one single fat cable for neatness. Could also develop a wirless versio
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Published on 12 Apr 2008 from Charlie Barker
So I am relatively new to using merge tools. I have been developing with them for about a year. Merge tools become a necessity if you are developing in a team, or working on branches in your source control system. You do have to be ultra careful when you are merging against another developers change
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Published on 02 Apr 2008 from Better .NET
I'm going to come right out and say it, I love LINQ to SQL. I love it, I love it, I love it. Not only does it save us time by eliminating plumbing code, but it gives us new tools to write better code.One thing that has always bothered me was I never found an elegent way to do multi-field searching.
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Published on 27 Mar 2008 from Charlie Barker
I always try and avoid using these keywords when naming objects in SQL Server: ADD EXCEPT PERCENT ALL EXEC PLAN ALTER EXECUTE PRECISION AND EXISTS PRIMARY ANY EXIT PRINT AS FETCH PROC ASC FILE PROCEDURE AUTHORIZATION FILLFACTOR PUBLIC BACKUP FOR RAISERROR BEGIN FOREIGN READ BETWEEN FREETEXT READTEXT
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Published on 28 Feb 2008 from Nevron News
Nevron Software team is pleased to announce the new Q4 2007 release of Nevron .NET Vision - the professional data visualization component suite for Windows Forms and ASP.NET development. This release introduces Visual Studio 2008 support, major improvements in the AJAX support of the Chart and
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Published on 28 Feb 2008 from Charlie Barker
Model Name : Vigor2820 series Firmware Version : 3.1.1 Build Date/Time : Nov 8 2007 11:10:43 ADSL Firmware : 211801_A Annex A Price: £135 inc VAT I have just bought one of these to use
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Published on 24 Feb 2008 from Charlie Barker
This has to be the funniest most original game reviewer on the web. He is also very knowledgable
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Published on 22 Feb 2008 from Charlie Barker
This will r0x0r your b0x0r's! http://lifehacker.com/357869/use-your-wii-as-a-media-center The article explains in several easy steps how to turn your wii into a media center. I tried it and could not believe how well it works! Some things you will need: A Wii with wireless access to the internet The
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Published on 06 Feb 2008 from Charlie Barker
The HM22W is a nice TV for a bedroom, the picture is good with no ghosting and a wide viewing angle. The built in speakers are a bit limp so don't expect high volume. The remote control is easy to use if a little more complicated that is necessary. The unit only has an analogue tuner so if you want
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Published on 05 Feb 2008 from Charlie Barker
A few weeks ago one of the devs in the trading system team hit a performance issue, running four threads on a multicore machine ran slower than running when processor affinity was turned on. Turning on processor affinity basically was limiting his application to one core so he expected a performance
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Published on 22 Jan 2008 from Charlie Barker
One of my new year's resolutions was to upgrade to the latest version of dasblog and host it on ASP.NET 2.0. Well this is probably the only resolution I will keep. I chose the MadsSimple theme I really liked the business theme but the blog post font was a little small and this is a personal blog so
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Published on 22 Jan 2008 from Charlie Barker
When I google for "FileSystemObject OpenTextFile ReadLine" Firefox stops responding. Try it yourself here