Will’s Blog

A little while ago, I blogged about a CSS cheat sheet made available at the ILoveJackDaniels.com website.
I just noticed that the blogs’ author (Dave Child) has a few more up.
From: http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/
- JavaScript Cheet Sheet
- CSS
- RGB Hex Colour Chart
Looks handy. Though I always keep a local saved copy of this page for the Color codes. [...]

On Wednesday night I did a demo of Atlas. I was going to do a little demo on the Virtual Earth Atlas Server Control. In hindsight, doing a demo that depended on “external resources” was probably not the best idea. But it was working fine just moments before the presentation, and I hadn’t noticed the [...]

A few months ago, at one of the MXPEG (Melbourne eXtreme Programming Enthusiasts Group) there was a presentation by Darrell DeBoer (from ThoughtWorks) on something that a few ThoughtWorkers have been working on called Selenium.
I still haven’t used it yet, but I thought people might be interested in it. I found it quite interesting at [...]

I was just browsing through the Ajaxian.com blog and noticed this post which talked about one of the issues known as the “back button” issue.
Basically, what do you do when the user clicks on the back button in the browser? Naturally, the user expects to see the previous state of the page before they interacted [...]

Here’s the actual presentation file: VDNUG_AjaxPresentation.ppt
I’ll post the actual demos another time.
Just a quick note, there’s a lot of links below. You could spend a long long time reading about it.
If you’re interested in Atlas, do download the Hands On Labs and play around with it. There’s a lot there, and there’s also [...]

From Andrew Coates’ blog:
Aus-DotNet List moving Mail Servers
I just spoke to Dr Pete (Stanski), who runs the Aus-DotNet mailing list and, as per his note to the list a couple of days ago, he’s moved the list to a new ISP and a new server. It seems like the propagation of the MX record is [...]

Damn, looks like some of those links in the “spam” comments are links to real blogs.
There’s many “abandoned” blogs out there, and it looks like these spammers are taking advantage of them by putting all of their spam links in the comments area of those blogs:
I guess when one thought the “fight” against these spammers [...]

I’m presenting this month at the newly formed Victoria .NET User Group (that’s MDNUG+AusDev+Victoria.NET Cluster).
http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au/index.aspx?link_id=84.459
My talk is on Ajax and apart from the general Ajax stuff, i’ll be talking about how to make use of it in ASP.NET applications.
This will be my first presentation at the user group and my first proper presentation since I [...]

Wow this looks nice.
It’s basically a DB Admin tool written for the web.
Currently it supports only the MySQL database which is fine for the large majority of web hosting providers (running some form of Linux) as that seems to be the DB of choice (although I’ve come across some that use PostgreSql instead).
But yeah, [...]