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August 2007 - Posts

Reading XLS spreadsheets from ASP.NET
Here's a tip for when you need to read a spreadsheet from ASP.NET (well, .NET really). Thinking about it now I'm surprised that I haven't needed to do this before. The second or third article I found was John Kilgo's Reading Excel (.xls) Read More...
Telligent Graffiti CMS
At last we can talk about Telligent's new soon-to-be-released-but-noone's-promising-anything CMS!! Adonis just posted a sneak peek video Read More...
round peg, meet square hole
Take a look at www.theroadkings.com - notice especially the URL’s as you click around the site. The whole thing is ajax-driven, with no way of linking to a specific page (at least without downloading the ajaxEngine.js and reading the file). It’s Read More...
Duck Typing
The funny thing (I suppose I should be embarassed, but I'm not) about the recent post " How Duck Typing Benefits C# Developers " is that I thought it was going to say that we should use "hunt and peck" typing instead of touch-typing Read More...
It's hard to let go
Before I talk about the subject at hand; Seth Godin is a genius. I still can't believe that he blogs multiple times a day and almost every one of his blog posts makes me smile and nod my head. Anyway, the blog post Loss vs. Gain struck a chord today Read More...
Poems
And straight out of left-field is a link to a guy that I read every week when he sends us out a new poem. Yes, nerds, poem . I don't think I've linked to Robert Bruce at www.knifegunpen.com before, and since I'm on a conference call right Read More...
Subversion hosting
Next week all the Telligenti developers - me included - are going to Dallas for another get-together. Should be a lot of fun in the evenings, but I have some work to do before I go. Although I have a kickass laptop I do all my work on the desktop, so Read More...
Do you have a will? Living will? POA?
Having visited the ER recently I was reminded of this. If you don't have a Last Will and Testament, Living Will, Power of Attorney or a Medical Power of Attorney you should get one. Here's how: www.legacywriter.com I was very impressed by this Read More...
Shame about Barry Bonds
A comment on Barry Bonds hits 756th homer made me Google "Barry Bond Cheat" and that was when I heard (for the first time I admit, I'm English remember!?) about how Barry got caught for steroid use and how he's generally not liked . Read More...
Nice to get the old girl outside
I haven't had the chassis off the lift and outside where I can see it for quite a few months. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna pull up a deckchair and just stare awhile.. Read More...
Thread was being aborted
I hate seeing this error. Last night I moved this web site to another server and when I ran the site I got a YSOD telling me "Thread was being aborted" and "The type initializer for 'CommunityServer.Components.CSUrlReWriter' threw Read More...