Random thoughts from a UK Student and .NET developer
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Published on 22 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
ASP.NET 2.0 gives us a Page.Title property, which we can set in code, or in the Page directive. Great! Unfortunately, I had a requirement so that whilst I'd be setting a portion of the title from the page, the rest would be pre-defined (ideally within the master page that I use). Obviously you can't
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Published on 21 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
I've now got some enhanced UK developer event listings up on Developer Fusion - check it out at http://beta.developerfusion.co.uk/events/. Suggestions for improvements are always welcome. Made a nice use of the Google Maps API to do this... (sorry Microsoft, but the MapPoint service is way out of my
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Published on 17 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
I'm not sure I should really admit to not knowing this... but today was the first time I'd realised that the "class" attribute for elements within a HTML document can accept more than one class name. doh.Update: Here's a simple example. With the following in your style sheet....align-c { text-align:
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Published on 14 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
Hmm. Talk about over-engineering. I don't think we really need generics at all, provided we're happy with a cast outside the method instead of inside it. public delegate object MethodExecution();public static object GetCachedMethod(string key, DateTime absoluteExpiration, MethodExecution method){&nb
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Published on 14 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
Today I found myself coding a fairly familiar pattern - checking whether there was an entry in the ASP.NET cache with a particular key, if not, executing a method and adding the result to the cache, and either way, returning the result. I wondered whether there was a "nice" way to do this using gene
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Published on 10 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
Discovered something new today - normally I'd just use the TRUNCATE TABLE command in order to reset an identity column in a table within SQL Server. However, SQL Server doesn't let you do this if you've got foreign key constraints pointing at the table; so instead, I deleted all the rows using a sta
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Published on 02 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
For those of you who missed my presentation on AJAX in ASP.NET at DDD II... or just want to see me mess up in my first demo again, you can now download a video of it from here. Enjoy! :-)
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Published on 07 Jan 2006 by James Crowley
Just thought I'd post some information about upcoming developer events in January dotted around the UK! If you haven't been to one before, why not give it a go? Ian Griffiths on C# 3.0Thursday, 12 January 2006, 18:30 - 21:00 in London, UK (London .NET User Group) With the covers barely off on C# 2.0
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Published on 14 Feb 2006 by James Crowley
Forgive me for sounding my own trumpet, so to speak... but this is a significant milestone for me! Developer Fusion has reached over 500,000 unique users* in the last 30 days, which is great news, and the first time it's broken this (albeit artificial) barrier. Next target: 750,000! I'm really hopin
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Published on 21 Feb 2006 by James Crowley
If you're involved in a User Group (in *any* country), I'd encourage you to submit information about your group to Developer Fusion at http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/members/submit.aspx - you will then be listed within our directory of resources; like these .NET User groups that we're already list
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Published on 05 Mar 2006 by James Crowley
I had a thank you email from Pete LePage on the Web Development Tools team the other day - letting me know that I was one of the top ten valid bug finders (as in, bugs that were actually fixed) for the VS 2005 product cycle... It's always nice to know that we can all make a difference to the finishe
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Published on 05 Mar 2006 by James Crowley
I had a thank you email from Pete LePage on the Web Development Tools team the other day - letting me know that I was one of the top ten valid bug finders (as in, bugs that were actually fixed) for the VS 2005 product cycle... It's always nice to know that we can all make a difference to the finishe
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Published on 22 Feb 2006 by James Crowley
If you're involved in a User Group (in *any* country), I'd encourage you to submit information about your group to Developer Fusion at http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/members/submit.aspx - you will then be listed within our directory of resources; like these .NET User groups that we're already list
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Published on 14 Feb 2006 by James Crowley
Forgive me for sounding my own trumpet, so to speak... but this is a significant milestone for me! Developer Fusion has reached over 500,000 unique users* in the last 30 days, which is great news, and the first time it's broken this (albeit artificial) barrier. Next target: 750,000! Many thanks to e
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Published on 07 Jan 2006 by James Crowley
Just thought I'd post some information about upcoming developer events in January dotted around the UK! If you haven't been to one before, why not give it a go? Ian Griffiths on C# 3.0Thursday, 12 January 2006, 18:30 - 21:00 in London, UK (London .NET User Group) With the covers barely off on C# 2.0
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Published on 23 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
ASP.NET 2.0 gives us a Page.Title property, which we can set in code, or in the Page directive. Great! Unfortunately, I had a requirement so that whilst I'd be setting a portion of the title from the page, the rest would be pre-defined (ideally within the master page that I use). Obviously you can't
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Published on 22 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
I've now got some enhanced UK developer event listings up on Developer Fusion - check it out at http://beta.developerfusion.co.uk/events/. Suggestions for improvements are always welcome. Made a nice use of the Google Maps API to do this... (sorry Microsoft, but the MapPoint service is way out of my
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Published on 17 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
I'm not sure I should really admit to not knowing this... but today was the first time I'd realised that the "class" attribute for elements within a HTML document can accept more than one class name. doh.Update: Here's a simple example. With the following in your style sheet....align-c { text-align:
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Published on 15 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
Hmm. Talk about over-engineering. I don't think we really need generics at all, provided we're happy with a cast outside the method instead of inside it. public delegate object MethodExecution();public static object GetCachedMethod(string key, DateTime absoluteExpiration, MethodExecution method){&nb
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Published on 15 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
Today I found myself coding a fairly familiar pattern - checking whether there was an entry in the ASP.NET cache with a particular key, if not, executing a method and adding the result to the cache, and either way, returning the result. I wondered whether there was a "nice" way to do this using gene
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Published on 10 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
Discovered something new today - normally I'd just use the TRUNCATE TABLE command in order to reset an identity column in a table within SQL Server. However, SQL Server doesn't let you do this if you've got foreign key constraints pointing at the table; so instead, I deleted all the rows using a sta
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Published on 02 Nov 2005 by James Crowley
For those of you who missed my presentation on AJAX in ASP.NET at DDD II... or just want to see me mess up in my first demo again, you can now download a video of it from here. Enjoy! :-)
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Published on 24 Oct 2005 by James Crowley
Well, the second DDD day has come and gone - and I think I can safely say from everyone I've talked to, it was a great success. My thanks go out to all of you for making it such a great event. If you were there, and haven't yet given feedback on the event, do it now at http://www.developerday.co.uk/
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Published on 13 Sep 2005 by James Crowley
It looks like the Atlas preview site is now live at http://atlas.asp.net/ ... time to start getting my AJAX slides updated!
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Published on 13 Sep 2005 by James Crowley
Sarah Blow is also organising a "Geek Dinner" so that people can get together after DDD to socialise for a bit - great idea! Check out http://www.thehughpage.com/DeveloperDayGeekDinner. (This will also be co-ordinated with whatever Microsoft is planning to do after the event)
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