Monthly Archives: January 2009

Online shopping done wrong?

Posted on January 19, 2009 by dale

So I saw a bag (Laptop Bag not Hand bag) I really like at a Woolworths store in Cavendish Square, its part of the “Country Road” section of Woolworths (a new “up market” section of the store.) My problem is … Continue reading →

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Website for picking Servers

Posted on January 16, 2009 by dale

I’ve been tasked with the job of finding a new server for a client, normally I love this kind of job but today its really not going particularly well. The problem? I know what the client wants/needs but explaining that … Continue reading →

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Fog Creek’s new Offices.

Posted on January 16, 2009 by dale

I’m a long time reader of Joel on Software, going on +/- 5 years. I don’t always agree with his ideas and I don’t follow his every word, but he writes well and he does have a very successfull company … Continue reading →

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GridView DataFormatString not working in ASP.NET

Posted on January 15, 2009 by dale

Was scratching my head for a few minutes when a bound column in a grid in my ASP.Net page didn’t format correctly, for future reference and in case it can help some one here is the solution: Set your DataFormatString … Continue reading →

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Debugging Crashes and Hangs using Visual Studio

Posted on January 15, 2009 by dale

Found this via the “Start Page” in Visual Studio 2008, its a rather interesting blog post by one of the Visual Studio IDE QA Guys. It goes into a lot of detail on how to debug application crashes and the … Continue reading →

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Best Job in the World

Posted on January 15, 2009 by dale

I’m probably a bit late about posting this one, but in case you’ve missed it here it is. You could be the caretaker of a small island off the coast of Australia, the job requires you to feed the fish, … Continue reading →

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Google Analytics Report Back

Posted on January 15, 2009 by dale

Since installing Analytics on the site I’ve been going in and checking the stats each day, mainly to see who is coming to the site, where they’re coming from and how long they’re staying. It appears that about 40% of … Continue reading →

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SARS Extends Tax Deadline

Posted on January 15, 2009 by dale

SARS has extended the deadline for sub-mitting e-filing returns. Additional time has been set aside for the submission of income tax returns, the SA Revenue Service has said. Taxpayers using eFiling have until February 5 to submit their income tax … Continue reading →

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XPathMania

Posted on January 15, 2009 by dale

Richard @ Owl Says Woot has a post about a tool called Visual XPath. I found a tool a while back called XPathMania its a plugin to Visual Studio 2005 (Don’t know if there is a 2008 version out yet.) … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2008 – Custom Tool Error with a Dataset in a Web Project

Posted on January 14, 2009 by dale

I’m busy tearing my hair out, I’ve got this problem in Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition (Not sure if it’s SP1 or not.). I’ve got a web project that I’ve created a dataset in and now want to add a … Continue reading →

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