Declarative data binding on User Controls
I had this problem a few years ago and figured that there was no good solution, but I am older and wiser now so figured it’s time look for a better solution. I…
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2008
SSH slow to login? Disable reverse DNS lookup
By default in Ubuntu (and probably other distributions), when you log into the SSH server, it will do a reverse DNS lookup of the client for security reasons…
ObjectDataSource.SelectCountMethod wants an int
I have been working with the GridView ASP.NET control today, bound to an ObjectDataSource. This is to do with my experiment with DBMail that I mentioned the…
Stop X from starting when booting Ubuntu
This is nothing new, but I wanted to stop X from starting on bootup with Ubuntu Desktop 8.04. I would prefer to start it using startx. The easy solution, from…
Entity Framework: Part 2
I have been reading a bit of the documentation about the ADO.NET Entity Framework. There are a few passages that relate to my previous post: Because referenced…
Mail archiving with DBMail
I have been looking for a SQL-based way to store all my old email messages. I think I may have found it. There is an email system called DBMail that stores…
LINQ to Entities – my first steps
I have had little bit of experience with LINQ to SQL, but recently read that Microsoft is instead concentrating on LINQ to Entities. I have just started a new…
My time in London is coming to an end
Hello, I haven’t written on here for a very long time. I have been in London now for just over 6 months. I have just over 4 weeks left before my visa expires…
Observations at Auckland Airport
Hello. I am at the airport. I am actually on the last flight out of Auckland tonight, to Singapore. What have I observed? Well, British people tend to look at…
The Gmail “Trash” is now called the “Bin” – at least in some locales
I host my some of email using Gmail with a custom domain. I have two domains with Gmail. I just noticed that for the domain that ends in .co.nz, the Trash is…
Looking for work on the Internet
It’s obviously a slow news day again, because the Herald has written an article about being careful when posting things on social networking sites if you’re…
My far-too-liberal Facebook friend policy
I have 197 friends on Facebook. I don’t think I have 197 friends in real life. When I first signed up to Facebook in the northern autumn of 2006, I had less…
My first blog spam!
Wow. I must be semi-important. Someone wrote a spam comment about credit cards on a seemingly unrelated post. How exciting. I’ve deleted it though. In other…
My trip to Ronchamp
Back in February, I went to visit one of my friends who lived in Belfort, France. We went on a day trip with one of her friends to this small town (about half…
2007
Announcing Zemobo3
This is for the more technically minded of you, because Zemobo3 is in a very very early stage. There a quite a few web sites that I contribute content to…
IE compatibility (again!)
I have just installed the Tiger administration plugin for WordPress. It’s quite nice. But the one thing that annoys me about it is that it doesn’t support…
What's up with Journeyman?
I seem to be getting a few hits about Journeyman (the show that is under threat of cancellation!) so I thought I’d write a bit more. The people over at…
I have a question for you
So please head over to my poll at http://localhost:8080/poll. I have decided to do some market research.
IE compatability issues with WordPress
There are a few problems with WordPress when working with IE. They’re kind of annoying, so I will look at fixing them when I can be bothered. One I noticed…
Journeyman didn't come last last night
According to the overnight ratings at Zap2it, Journeyman didn’t come in completely last place last night. CSI: Miami won the night, but Journeyman came in…
Below the Queen's head
A while back I noticed that the initials IRB appeared below the portrait of the Queen on recently-minted coins. It turns out that those are the initials of of…
I am the world's authority on Brazilian-European monetary relations
It seems so, anyway. I wrote an article in March about finding a coin from Brazil that was similar to a 5 cent euro coin. If you search for “brazilian money…
The end of some of my sports picks applications
During the Rugby World Cup, I stared an application on Facebook: France 2007 World Cup Picks. It had that stupid name for trade mark reasons. (Another app…
Perhaps WordPress MU needs too much customisation
After a bit more experimentation, it looks like I might need to hack around with WordPress MU a bit more than I originally thought. Which suggests that perhaps…
Customising WordPress MU
Last year, before my trip to France, I thought about starting a web site where anyone can set up a blog about their travels. Plenty of them exist already. None…