Archive for May, 2006

IE7 “improvement” turns into a bug for us

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

This is an interesting one that I just came across today. One of our users has downloaded the latest IE7 Beta release and has found that one of the features that she relies on no longer behaves the same way. I got her to try to use that feature on another PC (which has IE6), [...]

The CodePlex

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Just stumbled across this site called the CodePlex, via bink.nu What is CodePlex? CodePlex is an online software development environment for open and shared source developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project lifecycle. It has been written from the ground up in C# using .NET 2.0 technology with Team Foundation Server on [...]

Mobile Client Software Factory (aka Mobile Baseline Architecture Toolkit)

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Just noticed that there’s a Compact Framework version of the Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit called the Mobile Client Software Factory available now. Francis K. Cheung has a series of posts on his blog about issues relating to porting to the Compact Framework. On a side note, is anyone else heading to MEDC 2006 in [...]

ASP.NET Web Hosting recommendations wanted

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Does anyone have personal recommendations for web hosting providers? My requirements are: – ASP.NET 2.0 – SQL Server 2000 (or 2005) – Up to 5 domains – 1GB web space I guess i’ll leave it at that as the base requirements. As for price range, probably no more than $30AUD. So far, I’ve looked at: [...]

Thoughts on Internet Explorer 7

Monday, May 1st, 2006

I’m one of many web developers out there that run Windows and have downloaded and installed the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 build (as well as the other CTP builds). Honestly, I don’t use a lot of the new features that have been included in IE7. But there is one feature that I’m loving, and [...]