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Chris Garrett

Recent Posts

• Just like riding a bike

  Posted: 20 Dec 2006 at 16:14 by chrisg

  After over a year of not touching any Microsoft development platform code this week I helped a friend with a GDI+ issue and hacked some .asp together. It's amazing, the classic ASP just flowed. Comfortable as an old shoe. .NET? It was all strangely familiar and unfamiliar at once. I co-authored

• MVP no more

  Posted: 03 Oct 2006 at 23:48 by Chris Garrett

  Guess it had to happen some time. I am no longer an MVP - official.While this news makes me surprisingly sad I had expected it for a long time. In fact I expected it last year.My ASP/ASP.NET activity this year has been near zero. Just look at this blog, one post this year? I attended DDD and that is

• DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Report

  Posted: 04 Jun 2006 at 23:26 by chrisg

  DDD Photoset at Flickr Plip has pipped me to blogging and posting his photographs but I thought I would let you know about DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper3 anyway!It was a great day, and in my opinion a massive success. Apparently the event was fully subscribed only 10 days after first announcement, an

• Going mobile for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper

  Posted: 01 Jun 2006 at 22:59 by chrisg

  Of all the preparations for my trip to DDD the strangest and most difficult has been sorting out my internet access. Curiously all the hotels with free and fast wifi were taken, funny that, heh, so I have had to fall back on the old 3G. Easy enough, my XDA serves me well for email , MSN IM and limit

• CommunityServer and Performancing for Firefox

  Posted: 31 May 2006 at 03:08 by chrisg

  Yay, looks like I can use Performancing for Firefox with weblogs.asp.net/communityserver!(Use custom->metaweblog as the type and http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/metablog.ashx as the URL)Sweet!Technorati Tags: communityserver, performancing, firefox, blogging, api

• Community Server and blog APIs

  Posted: 30 May 2006 at 19:13 by chrisg

  It seems like Community Server can work with blog APIs, at least that is how I read this forum post. Was this installed with weblogs.asp.net upgrade?I would really like to be able to use our Performancing Firefox extension rather than log into this here control panel, I am far more likely to post of

• Where have I been?

  Posted: 26 May 2006 at 23:15 by chrisg

  Wow, a lot has happened since I last posted to this blog. For quite a while I haven't been able to log in even if I had the motivation or content to post. I guess I should do something now the RobH and the guys have upgraded weblogs.asp.net to CS2.The most recent posts in my archive talked about us

• Support freedom to blog

  Posted: 01 Sep 2005 at 14:39 by chrisg

  The popular SEO expert and all-round good bloke, Aaron Wall (http://www.seobook.com/) has decided to fight his bizarre traffic power lawsuit. Please take a look at what is going on and either link him from your blog or donate. If you want to know who traffic power are, rather than me risk a lawsuit

• Support freedom to blog

  Posted: 01 Sep 2005 at 10:39 by Chris Garrett

  The popular SEO expert and all-round good bloke, Aaron Wall (http://www.seobook.com/) has decided to fight his bizarre traffic power lawsuit. Please take a look at what is going on and either link him from your blog or donate. If you want to know who traffic power are, rather than me risk a lawsuit

• Yes still interested! New media in winnipeg?

  Posted: 04 Jul 2005 at 17:23 by chrisg

  I just got asked by two different people if I was still in the UK. Unfortunately, yes :O( I know, I know, tell me about it. I wanted Amy (my daughter) to start school in Canada for the new term in september but looks extremely unrealistic now doesn't it? So I still want to move to Winnipeg but more

• Yes still interested! New media in winnipeg?

  Posted: 04 Jul 2005 at 13:23 by Chris Garrett

  I just got asked by two different people if I was still in the UK. Unfortunately, yes :O( I know, I know, tell me about it. I wanted Amy (my daughter) to start school in Canada for the new term in september but looks extremely unrealistic now doesn't it? So I still want to move to Winnipeg but more

• Emailing Unicode Emails to Hotmail - solved!

  Posted: 07 Jun 2005 at 22:27 by chrisg

  In my last blog I asked how I could send unicode emails to hotmail, well Dave Wanta and www.AspNetEmail.com (no affiliate code, heh) to the rescue! The AspNetEmail message takes a CharSet property, so far so good As well as setting the CharSet to the relevant country setting, I found I also needed t

• Emailing Unicode Emails to Hotmail - solved!

  Posted: 07 Jun 2005 at 18:27 by Chris Garrett

  In my last blog I asked how I could send unicode emails to hotmail, well Dave Wanta and www.AspNetEmail.com (no affiliate code, heh) to the rescue! The AspNetEmail message takes a CharSet property, so far so good As well as setting the CharSet to the relevant country setting, I found I also needed t

• Emailing UTF-8 to Hotmail?

  Posted: 06 Jun 2005 at 22:26 by chrisg

  It looks suspiciously like Hotmail explicitly rejects viewing UTF-8 encoded email - is this correct? Unfortunately my content is in UTF-8 and I can't just ignore Hotmail users :O( I am using AspNetEmail and I tried using ISO-8859-1 as the characterset. Didn't work. So I tried converting my UTF-8 enc

• Emailing UTF-8 to Hotmail?

  Posted: 06 Jun 2005 at 18:26 by Chris Garrett

  It looks suspiciously like Hotmail explicitly rejects viewing UTF-8 encoded email - is this correct? Unfortunately my content is in UTF-8 and I can't just ignore Hotmail users :O( I am using AspNetEmail and I tried using ISO-8859-1 as the characterset. Didn't work. So I tried converting my UTF-8 enc

• How do I get around the "The same table (xxxx) cannot be the child table in two nested relations" er

  Posted: 19 May 2005 at 20:20 by chrisg

  I bet this is a schoolboy problem but even the mighty google is not helping. I am trying to read chunks of DMOZ RDF xml into a dataset.I am getting a "The same table (xxxx) cannot be the child table in two nested relations." error which I think I can sort out by doing a XSL transform .. which is whe

• How do I get around the "The same table (xxxx) cannot be the child table in two nested relations" er

  Posted: 19 May 2005 at 16:20 by Chris Garrett

  I bet this is a schoolboy problem but even the mighty google is not helping. I am trying to read chunks of DMOZ RDF xml into a dataset.I am getting a "The same table (xxxx) cannot be the child table in two nested relations." error which I think I can sort out by doing a XSL transform .. which is whe

• Google caught Search Engine spamming?

  Posted: 07 Mar 2005 at 22:13 by chrisg

  Google caught breaking their own webmaster guidelines, specifically keyword stuffing and cloaking http://www.threadwatch.org/node/1774  

• Google caught Search Engine spamming?

  Posted: 07 Mar 2005 at 17:13 by Chris Garrett

  Google caught breaking their own webmaster guidelines, specifically keyword stuffing and cloaking http://www.threadwatch.org/node/1774  

• Cool technology - a vision of the future

  Posted: 04 Mar 2005 at 14:52 by chrisg

  Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a computer with the form factor of a mobile phone but with a full size screen and keyboard? How about using gestures instead of a mouse? Watch this video!http://o.blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/p3020004.mov If any surface becomes your computers work a