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Quick shout out to Peter-Paul Koch at QuirksMode.org for his very nice javascript browser detection script. Clever, and definately deserved more than a tweet. [include:blogad] 

Rick Strahl: What can you keep in your Head? +1 [include:blogad] 

I was having loads of fun getting a "borrowed" web service running on the staging server yesterday. As with all code that you take without asking, there are always.. shall we say, "hiccups". Apparently every line in the web.config conflicted with the root web.config. And not in a nice way. Hack. Slash. Keyword/Value pairs ...

I'm quite looking forward to reviewing links between my sites and others, and applying XFN's rel="me", rel="friend" etc. Read more about XFN and check out this cool video from Google (via shoemoney).

Perhaps I should name 5 other people to modify this script when I'm done. First, it was Wyatt, then Jon, then Rich - and probably many others. Well, it's my turn dammit. I keep getting code from contractors that have _svn folders in them - and the script I got from Jon only looks for the .svn that I use. So here is the quick fix ...

I was just reading Jason Alexander's new blog post about an old code drop for Authorize.net and was trying to find the old post he was referring to. Obviously, I went to Google to find the old cache; http://www.google.com/search?q=authorize.net+jason+alexander What amazed me was the first result - not the old one, but the post made 35 ...

I went to renew my Microsoft Partner Program membership today before it runs out at the end of the month. For a few hundred bucks I get 10 copies of XP and Office to use around the house - there are other benefits, but that alone makes me renew each year. This year, something is different. I'm now using FF as my default browser... So when I ...

Yeah, there are a million services out there that allow you to upload files and then you can tell someone where to download it. Most however, don't get it. They are trying to cash in on it by making the pages complicated and asking too many questions. Oh, and would you like a business registration? etc senduit do it perfectly. You might ...

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) Files with ADO.NET... and I admit I was sceptical when I read the method outlined there..but ...

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. [include:blogad]