Had a headdesk moment as I sat down this morning to write a delivery page for a web site I’m current working on. I needed a table of countries, their ISO numbers and two and three letter codes. I’ve done this once or twice before, but had misplaced the script...
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Bob 6 – Bob’s Festive Message
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Beefing up Mail.app
Mac OS X’s default mail browser, Mail.app, is a pretty straightforward e-mail client with a few bells and whistles. But for those coming across from e-mail clients such as Thunderbird or Outlook, especially from daily workflows that revolve around e-mail, they may find the out-the-box functionality a little lacking. Cleverly...
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SQL Server Management Studio – Unable to browse databases.
I often end up working in collaborative environments, with SQL Server accounts which only allow me access to one database on any given server. Using the SQL Server 2005 tools, this wasn’t a problem. SQL SMS showed me all the databases available but threw an “access denied” if I tried...
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Bob 5 – The Box
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New MBP, Developer Tools Not Year Ready
I’ve just got off the phone from a Product Specialist at Apple Care.
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Barcamp Sheffield
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The Venerable “if” Statement
It’s one of the first keywords every programmer is taught, and it’s the first real sense of control you’re given over your programming. It’s translated into almost every language (there is the odd exception, and they are odd) and makes the basis for every conditional statement there-in.
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Bob 4 – Tests
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Building AJAX/AJAJ With JQuery and .NET – JQuery Support for VS.
One of the main criticisms of the ASP.NET AJAX approach is the “all or nothing” attitude the components have regards callbacks and updates. This is both a blessing and a curse, for while the AJAX components are very easy to work with, they also introduce significant network overhead and come...
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