March 2005 - Posts
I heard these today,and had to pass on the ones that tickled my fancy: A dyslexic man walks into a bra.. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at either. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day, but I
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Rule #1: Never Keep A Customer Waiting Sales are up, up, up this month, but I made a n00b mistake this week. On the day before a new release I told a new customer that he might as well wait until tomorrow before downloading and installing the software.
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Heard today: I went to a seafood party the other night. Pulled a mussel. Two aerials got married. The ceremony wasn't anything special, but the reception was amazing.
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I'm so used to replying to emails quickly that I find it personally offensive when others don't do the same. I have a problem with a 3rd party product today and it has totally put the brakes on a minor release that I wanted to get out the door tomorrow.
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I played around with some regex (Regular Expressions) today. Actually, if you didn't know what regex stood for, stop reading now. This is the sort of stuf that makes grown geeks cry (with frustration). Or maybe it's just me. I always say that you can't
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This new vlogging stuff is cool. I have to get me one of these. I bet you can waste WAY more time writing the scripts and editing the videos than just plain blogging. Here's Amanda Congdon (try saying that with a mouthful of chips) explaining her virtual
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The asp.netPRO magazine annual Readers Choice Awards are underway. Your votes count! I'd appreciate any votes for Dozing Dogs CMS in the CMS category.
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I’ve used the Table Trick for a few years now, but I just noticed today that if my content is very long, say 10 pages down in IE, and my nav section is obviously a lot shorter, then IE will move my nav bar down an inch or so. It won’t appear
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I got some good responses from yesterdays Table Trick question. The best came from David King who pointed me at Larry Swanson's web site, and a nice solution. Simply put, the answer is to put the content (and optional right sidebar) into a right-aligned
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Wow. Interspire have announced that they are discontinuing their ASP.NET product range , citing low revenue as the main cause. Shame. It couldn't be better timing for Dozing Dogs, with 2.2 planned to ship later this month.
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I found a great solution today to the problem some of my CMS clients are having; namely, how to integrate other products and pages into the CMS. The Personal and Professional Editions are, you see, shipped as obfuscated assemblies and aspx/ascx files,
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In 38 minutes I make my first visit to a gym in 10 years. I thought it was about time to get out of this chair and do something more energetic than walk to the fridge. I visited 3 gym's yesterday near my house; Bally's, Gold's and Fitness Expectations
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Bob Parsons warns us of an incredibly stupid decision made by a faceless official that has banned private .US domain registration. Private registration allows people to use a domain proxy for their whois information rather than make their street address
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