Experience
1and1.com – Web Hosting Review
Purchasing web hosting service is extremely easy; however, purchasing great web service is extremely difficult. Some of the web hosts pretty much…
Category: Programming
C#.NET
Skype API Basics – Part 1
What is the Skype API? The Skype API is an easy way to create plugins that can dramatically change the way Skype…
.NET Framework
Determine if Skype is Installed
The easiest method of checking whether Skype is installed is actually to check for a Registry Key. We, of course, can’t check…
Programming
Inline vs External JavaScript
In general, we never should have embed JavaScript inside the same file as the HTML markup and should instead place the JavaScript…
JavaScript
JavaScript And Site Performance
JavaScript and the respective frameworks have really began to gain traction over the last couple of years. I would argue that most of the JavaScript frameworks are excellent, and truly are great for the user experience and for the programmer experience.
Programming
The Rise and Fall of Waterfall
Sadly, I still think there are a lot of companies that still just think,code, guess, code, guess some more and maybe eventually…
Programming
Browser Redirection – Yahoo Answers
I am having problems getting mozilla firefox to display my website correctly. It works fine on Internet Explorer. So I was thinking…
Programming
Website Compatibility Testing (Chrome,IE,FireFox,Opera)
How do you test browsers? I don't usually try for perfect pixel positioning in every browser, but if the client asks I won't complain!
PHP
PHP On IIS & My Epic Battle (Failed to write session data)
Always make sure that you modify the session.save_path to somewhere meaningful and ensure the directory has the correct file permissions.
Experience
Open Source Week 2009
I am so excited to say that I finally booked everything I need to attend the Toronto Open Source Week. In a…
.NET Framework
Books I’ve Read
Sometimes, when I have applied for full time employment in the past I have seen job ads or received responses from companies…
.NET Framework
Sending Emails from C#.NET
Emails are incredibly easy to send from .NET especially your typical <a href="http://www.mail-list.com/list_owner/plain_text_email.html" target="_blank">plaintext</a> email. We will be making use of the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.aspx">System.Net.Mail namespace</a> along with an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol">smtp server </a>you should already have setup or you could use a free one like Gmail.
C#.NET
Read a Whole Textfile Into a String
At work, I’ve been working on an auto html emailer. I’ve been receiving files from our Latin American office that are completely…
.NET Framework
How To Stop A .NET Form from Closing
How to stop a form from closing in the .NET Framework
asp.net
Mouse Overs For ASP.NET
Have you ever wanted to have the ability for the colour of a row to change when your user moves the mouse…
Programming
Creating a Simple RSS Feed
RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and is an XML specification published by the W3C. RSS became a standardized specification…
Excel
Programming Excel Using Visual Basic 6
Microsoft provides the ability to programmatically created spreadsheets using Excel. The process isn’t overly complex, but the twist is that the intelisense…