Will’s Blog

Came across an interesting project on CodeProject by Mike Ellison called SqlWhereBuilder a few days ago. It basically allows users of your app to dynamically build their own SQL Queries without needing to fiddle with the actual SQL. You could potentially build some sort of simple reporting page using it. It uses JavaScript to keep [...]

Just noticed that The Age website has been redesigned today. Looks a bit less cluttered. But where did their orange XML icon goto? I remember they had one in their old layout. At least they’ve still got the link to their RSS Channels page. The Sydney Morning Herald website still has the little orange XML [...]

Wilco Bauwer has posted an Atlas Class Browser which will show the public properties/events/methods of each Atlas type. It includes the Web, Web.Net, Web.Data, Web.Services, Web.UI, Web.UI.Data namespaces. If you prefer, however to explore the actual Atlas JavaScript files, but prefer a more “spaced out” version, check out Ralph Sommerer’s post. He’s got some funky [...]

Was just looking over my domains’ stats and noticed that the once great divide between Google and the others has somewhat shortened in recent times. Here’s the figures of people landing on one of my pages from a search engine: Links from an Internet Search Engine   19 different refering search engines Pages Percent Hits [...]

Just noticed that the Service Pack 2 for exchange has been released. Cool! What’s got my attention the most about this service pack is the enhancements for mobile devices. Saw a demo if it at MEDC (Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference) Melbourne. The feature which allows you to do a remote “wipe” of the device [...]

Here’s an article I was reading about the state of 3G Mobile services in Australia (well, for Melbourne/Sydney/Canberra anyway). This will get interesting. I know I blogged about this sometime last year (August). [Other blog entries on 3G]

I noticed on Memeorandum that Jakob Nielson posted a new article on Weblog Usability. Here’s a summary of what he says are usability issues of weblogs (The Top Ten Design Mistakes): 1. No Author Biographies 2. No Author Photo 3. Nondescript Posting Titles 4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go 5. Classic Hits are Buried [...]

I’ve just been reading an interesting article in the Fortune online website titled Torrential Reign – BITTORRENT: THE GREAT DISRUPTER. It’s about Bram Cohen, and one of his creations, BitTorrent.

Woke up at 6am on Saturday, had some food and out of the house by almost 7am. A nice, bright, sunny day. First thought of the day, maybe I should head to the beach? But no, Saturday was the day for the Victoria .NET (VS2005/Sql Server 2005) Hands on Day. The event actually started at [...]

Speaking of aus-dotnetters, I’m continually reminded how great that community is. User Groups have been important to me as a learning source over the (almost) 2 years I’ve been in this industry. The aus-dotnet list is always a valuable resource, no matter how many OT (Off-Topic) posts get “generated” when one approaches on the fifth [...]