Will’s Blog

Ok, I’ve just got this random idea that I came up with yesterday (while sitting through the MDNUG meeting last night). The idea is for an Australian State of Origin Code Challenge. State versus state, user group versus user group. The winning state/user group gets presented with a trophy with the names of the individuals [...]

Was browsing for some webcontrols the other day and came across a .NET code translator. Some people might say, hey, there’s plenty of those around already, what’s so special about this one? Well, you’ll have to try it for youreslf You can translate from VB.NET to C# and vice versa. And it’s all done on [...]

Wow, just downloaded the very first Microsoft Developer show being hosted by none other than my former University Lecturer, Peter Stanski (That’s Dr Pete for short). Listening to it right now. My first impression when I first heard who they were having host the show, I thought, hey, cool, this should be interesting. He’s definately [...]

Sometime last year, I was looking into some of those JavaScript based “popups” that people had on their sites. You know the ones, you put your mouse over the links and you see this expanded popup like area, hovering atop the text on the page. Yet, unlike a popup, it does not create a new [...]

The monthly Melbourne .NET User Group meeting will be held this Tuesday according to the mdnug.org website. The speakers for the evening are Chris Hewitt (from Readify), who will be presenting a talk about “What use are the CLR features of SQL Server 2005 anyhow? (for developers).” And there will also be a presentation by [...]

Oh, and while on ASP.NET, Craig Mc Murtry‘s got going a series of posts exploring the new features of ASP.NET 2.0. I like this post on SQL Cache Dependency. It’s very useful. Yeah, there is a way to implement something like this, but requires a bit more work and requires a bit more work…

Decided to look more into the Getting rid of the ASP.NET Web Form, and noticed this post by David Murphy and then also noticed this post by Brad Wilson where he links to an article. This could be quite interesting on many fronts. Well, depending on ones’ needs anyway. It does take away much of [...]

I’ve just been reading this post by Mike Roberts (of Thoughtworks) which is titled “Goodbye Web Forms”. (via Sijin Joseph’s blog). He’s removed all of the Web Form code for CruiseControl.NET (an Automated Continuous Integration server), which to some would sound like he’s basically reinventing the wheel. There is absolutely no reason why you couldn’t [...]

Now this is very strange. Well, it seemed that way at first anyway Assume you have declared in your ASP.NET page some web controls as below: <asp:checkbox id=”chkFirstCheck” runat=”server” textalign=”Left” text=”Check me first!” /> <br /> <asp:checkbox id=”chkSecondCheck” runat=”server” textalign=”Left” text=”I’m second!!!” enabled=”false” /> And also there is a bit of JavaScript on the ASP.NET [...]

Just came across this article, it may be useful later on. So pasting it here. http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20030418.asp Article talks about how to ensure a user can only login once with the same username/password at one location.