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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] 

After developing for *cough* some time it's not often that I come across a new style of URL that I've never even heard of before. A few days ago I saw a forum post about a 404 message someone got about their geotrust smartseal badge. I followed up and found that the javascript that geotrust supply has a URL style that I've never seen ...

Until today I have been reviewing my gmail spam folder each day or so, and marking all new spam as read when I've reviewed it. Most of the time that works ok, but I've noticed that there are times when I get spam with a presumably deliberately wrong date - maybe a few years ago. That's quite clever of them really, in a way, because ...

First, always keep the wrapping, even the little twisty ties that keep the wires tidy. Keep the paperwork and the CD's - and I try to open the tamper-proof stickers with a sharp knife so that I don't rip the paperwork. I'm getting very good at this because I've returned multiple routers and associated equipment in the last ...

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 ...

As I find them.. Gmail: I've seen 20-30 good emails caught in spam, so check it often while you train it. Since I don't want to check the same message twice, I mark the spam as read whenever I check it. Then, to check just the unread spam you can search for in:spam is:unread. Here's a list of other neat search terms. Google ...

The best ASP.NET CMS yet, our own Graffiti, is in the running for the asp.netPRO annual Readers Choice award. If you've played with it, you'll know why we're excited. Our old Dozing Dogs CMS came in second in it's first year in this event (2005) and with the amazing community response I've seen I'm convinced that Graffiti ...

Newbie tip. This is good: if (error.Contains("Declined"))..Not so much:if (error.IndexOf("Declined") != -1)..Guess which seems to be more common in code   P.S. Yes, I have old code with examples of the latter. Doesn't count. [include:blogad] 

To copy your personal calendar to google, use their new synch tool... ..and then uninstall it. It crashed my wife's Outlook 2003 almost every hour when it synched up, and I'm still finding strange entries in my Deleted Items folder in Outlook 2007 from when it was running - every hour it would create a few dozen empty appointments from ...