TFS or SubVersion? TFS or SubVersion? which to choose, I love them both. The answer my friend really depends on your requirements and your team size. If you are a team of ‘one’ then the answer is simple. SubVersion. But, if you are a team of dozens and all you need is robust source control [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2010’
fun (or not) with asp:Login
Gosh I have been busy of late, hardly any time to blog these days. However, Friday afternoon always seems to give me a little time to write and a week of work usually turns up something worth blogging about. This week (surprise, surprise) I will touch on some jQuery but the main focus is an [...]
Mocks n Stuff
Eventually in your development career you will have to create Mock objects to get your work done, especially if you are working with distributed systems. You don’t always have access to some parts of the system, in fact they may not even exist yet. That just happens to be the case with some work I [...]
Default buttons made easy ala jQuery
A while back I wrote a post about multiple default buttons on a form which I needed to revisit recently and as is always the way when you look back at some old code I ended up saying to myself "What the hell were you thinking?". I had a mild chuckle to myself as I [...]
Implementing a ‘Please select’ option with jQuery, jQuery Validation and asp.net
Continuing with my love of jQuery, today I bring you a few little snippets of code for working with select lists that have a “Please select’ entry indicating a user should select an option. As an additional added bonus (this is one of those “but wait, there’s more” moments) I will throw in some jQuery [...]
Bing Search => RSS
The Bing search engine has a handy little feature that allows search results to be returned as an RSS feed. This makes it dead simple to have up to date feeds on specific search terms loaded anywhere you can plonk an RSS feed. It’s as simple as 1,2,3: Go to www.bing.com Search for whatever you [...]
phpMyAdmin = Session cannot be started without error
I ran in to this problem today and it had me stumped for a little while but a Bing moment, a little bit of intuition and observation and I was soon up and running again. I ran in to this little critter when I was migrating my blogs and restoring the MySql backup of my [...]
Scrolling a floating div when visible with jQuery
I have seen this done on a few sites before but never actually done it myself so when I was asked to do this today it was a nice little bite sized challenge. On a technical note we don’t need jQuery as such, we could use plain on Javascript, but jQuery makes it that much [...]
FaceOff – Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta
Whilst I was searching around for a new Facebook profile photo this morning I noticed something. Something that was working and working very well. That something is Facial Recognition within Windows Live Photo Gallery the up and coming version. I downloaded the Beta a while back as I am a big fan of Photo Gallery [...]
The Geek gets a Google Font Makeover
I have been hankering to spice up the bondigeek site for some time now and when I came across the article ‘HOW TO: Implement Google Font API on your website” the other day the opportunity presented itself. Fonts on a web site are notoriously dull and a pain to implement across browsers if you want [...]
