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No Files Were Found To Look In. Find Was Stopped In Progress. Visual Studio gone mad! 6 Oct 2011 | 02:48 am
Much as I’ll admit to some spittle-flecked indignation when it comes to Visual Studio 20-anything, it has largely been the development tool that has paid my mortgage and allowed me to eat biscuits and...
Convert URL text to a link 1 Apr 2011 | 12:27 am
Today seems to be the day for posting useful stuff on the blog. Actually, it’s just so I can quickly useful find bits of code I might need again. So I’ve a got a web page that displays some text a us...
A poor man’s keyword and tag generator 1 Apr 2011 | 12:18 am
Not that this is is going to compete with a full blown keyword or tag service like Google offer, but I needed a very quick way to suggest keywords and tags as users filled out a blog form. There’s no ...
The Case of the Unpeelable Banana 20 Apr 2010 | 03:10 am
I had cause to visit my good friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, one day last month to discuss a number of matters. Mrs Hudson let me in, took my hat and coat and ushered me to the library where I found Holme...
C# switch on type – you’re not my type! 7 Apr 2010 | 01:17 am
OO purists have long argued that switching on the type of an object by using some conjured up member enum is wrong. And I agree. Fundamentally, it’s nasty and you can satisfyingly waggle your finger a...
You say URL, I say URI …. 19 Mar 2010 | 02:25 am
“Is a URL a URI?” “Is a URI a URL?” “What does URL stand for?” “What does URI stand for?” “What does URL mean?” I’ve been asked so many times I’ve lost count and for the sake of my sanity, I’ve d...
WindowsFormsSynchronizationContext – it’s all smoke, mirrors and PostMessage 12 Mar 2010 | 04:11 am
Intrigue is curious thing, much as curiosity is intriguing. What drives it? Mostly just needing to know something for no other reason than wanting to know itself – curious indeed. So why would I real...
Breaking the itch/scratch cycle of managing multi project App.config files in c# 27 Feb 2010 | 04:53 am
I’ve been meaning to get around to sorting out the plethora of App.config in a large, multi project C# solution, but it wasn’t anywhere near the top of the pile of problems that needed solving. I just...
The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections – in other words, the keys are locked in the safe! 16 Feb 2010 | 01:20 am
Ever had this problem trying to remote desktop (RDP) to a Windows Server 2003? I got very frustrated by this today. All the Administrator group sessions had been used up, the selfish remoters had gone...
Linux makes my fingers hurt 1 May 2009 | 11:00 pm
Yesterday I was mainly deploying a new release of php code to a Linux server. Not that it’s a problem, but I normally develop php web application on IIS running on Windows Server just because I know ...
