Well here it is the much loathed Internet Explorer 9 Beta. Trouble is, there is nothing to loath here folks. Move along, quickly across the web, rendering beautifully and HTML5 ready. Wow, it really rocks this browser and sports a sleek new minimalist look which blends elegantly in to the Windows 7 UI. You can [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2010’
Skype and SSL not playing fair
Once again Skype caught me out when trying to configure a test site for SSL and so this time around I thought I would blog about it and hopefully a) it would stick in my memory and b) someone else would avoid the pain of debugging this issue. If you are trying to setup a [...]
#wp7dev … too easy! Take 2
I had a question from @indyfromoz yesterday regarding part of the video in the post #wp7dev too easy! regarding the ‘drop-down control towards the end of the video. Now I am assuming this could either be the Application Bar menu or the effect when you select a user for redemption. Not sure which so I [...]
#wp7dev … too easy!
With the launch of Windows Phone 7 imminent I thought it high time I wrote a new blog post on Windows Phone 7 Development and how bloody easy it is. It is very easy to mock Microsoft and Windows Phone 7 for so many reasons. Yes previous versions of Windows Mobile, although good in their [...]
Trap for young players
Well well well, I came across a gem of a hurdle this morning whilst working on a new Windows Phone 7 application that had me (and could have you) scratching your head for a while. The app I am working on makes use of WCF Services and when I came to create the service that [...]
The time is now!
Working on a project this week I needed to pay close attention to the Timezone offset for data displayed in reports on a web application. Unfortunately the HttpBrowserCapabilities class in asp.net doesn’t offer us the Timezone or Timezone offset of the browser. If anyone knows where it might be hidden away I would love to [...]
QueryInterceptors are your friends
One of the features I love about WCF Data Services are QueryInterceptors. They make previously cumbersome(ish) tasks simple and remove the margin for error. If you are not familiar with a QueryInterceptor then in a nutshell they enable you to define a query that is applied each time a request is made for a defined [...]
WCF Data Services, OData & jQuery. If you are an asp.net developer you should be embracing these technologies…
and even if you are not an asp.net developer you should. I have talked a lot of late about WCF Data Services, OData and jQuery and with good reason. These technologies have caused a radical shift in how I develop for the web. So much so that the concept of traditional asp.net data binding is [...]
uploadify & IIS7+
File uploads and in particular multiple file uploads can be a right pain in the butt to implement. Come the reign of HTML5 (I give it till early 2011 until it really starts to take hold) I am led to believe that all our problems will be solved. Check out the details here at the [...]
