Will’s Blog

Was just counting the dates on the calendar an hour or so ago and realised something. It’s been almost 49 days since my friend Sam Ly passed away in London. Why have I mentioned 49 days, and why is it so significant? The traditional Buddhist funeral ceremony goes on for an entire 7 weeks. That’s [...]

Yep, the title says it all. It’s Melbourne day tommorow. 170 years ago on August 30th, the first European settlers arrived on the shores in the city of Melbourne. Of course, as we are all well aware, Europeans weren’t the first to arrive in Melbourne as we all know there were Aboriginals here for a [...]

I was browsing around the net last night and found a link to an interesting resource which shows you how to get rounded corners for your web page elements without resorting to the need of using transparent gif images to replace the corners to make it “look” rounded. First off, have a look at this [...]

Here’s a thought to throw out to all that read I’m sure almost everyone nowadays have used Microsoft Word and have witnessed their sometimes useful “Auto Save” functionality. Well, I just had a quick idea that juts came to mind. Using JavaScript one can replicate a similar type of feature through the usage of either [...]

I was browsing around the web last night looking for resources on building rich javascript User Interfaces and found the following links: Building Rich DHTML User Interfaces Revisited Building High Performance HTML Pages Faster DHTML in 12 Steps Almost forgot, the CSS tip that Scott Isaac posted on his blog looks quite interesting. I think [...]

Last night there was an important announcement made at the start of the Melbourne .NET User Group (MDNUG)/AusDev user group meeting. The announcement was that the two groups were finally merging into one single “Super” Group under the Victoria.NET Cluster. (Basically, they will be a sub-committee of Victoria.NET) I think this is pretty good news. [...]

Bill Chesnut last night talked about a Sharepoint User Group last night, I did a quick Google search and stumbled upon the following website: http://sps.uniqueworld.net/Melbourne/default.aspx And also this blog post: http://gpeiris.blogspot.com/2005/08/melbourne-sharepoint-user-group.html (From the blog post by Gayan Peiris…) ATT: Melbourne SharePoint Community The Melbourne SharePoint User Group will be launching on Thursday 25th August 2005 [...]

It’s that time of month again, the 4th Tuesday of the month is upon us tommorow. It’s time for all Melbourne based .NET developers to turn up to this month’s Melbourne .NET User Groups (that’s MDNUG & AusDev) joint monthly user group meeting. This month, we’ll have the excellent Dr Pete (aka Dr Peter Stanski), [...]

On my way to work this morning passed by Monash University’s Caulfield Campus (as I do every weekday) on my way to work and noticed there was a banner up which stated there would be a Monash University Caulfield Campus Reunion. Sounds like a good chance to meet and talk with many individuals who have [...]