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2 Articles about Django from 2 different people: Django: first impressions - overview with links Django: first impressions - technical overview The first one covers a lot of ground through it's links and is a pretty good starting point for Django. The main upside of Django is that it gives you a very...
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I've known for some time now that it's possible to use Ado.Net to read from Excel files, I didn't know it was also possible to write to them. At least I have found a workaround by using SQL server and registering Excel files as an external resource. Reading and writing from excel . Other Ado.Net tutorials...
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One of the big things in stopping people from adapting Ruby on Rails is it's lack of a good editor. Now it seems that this is a thing of the past. Some people have made it possible to make Dreamweaver mx 2004 into a good Ruby on Rails editor. The howto for rhtml files . The howto for intellisence on...
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Usually Joelonsoftware.com produces some interesting points of conversation around the blogospere. His latest posting is a really good (IMHO) post about setting priorities in a project. One of the good things in having a time based schedule and not a feature based schedule is that you can usually drop...
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This is a great way to add search to a website, and it's so simple that you will probably love it. The code needed: string search = string .Format( "http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=site%3yoursitehere.com+{0}&format=rss" , HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(SearchText.Text)); RssFeed1.DataSource...
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Ok fast overview, you want to go from: www.bla.com/bla.aspx?id=12&year=1999&month=2 to: www.bla.com/123.aspx or www.bla.com/123 or www.bla.com/123/id/12/year/1999/month/2 Here are your options: URL Rewriting engines: Simple + Regex through httphandlers: (Article) http://www.15seconds.com/issue...
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This list contains controls in the category's: Architecture Control Collections Data Email Masterpages and Templates Navigation Polls Voting / Rating Portals Reporting / graphs User Interface Website Statistics Article index: http://aspalliance.com/652 ( 1st post made with bloggie )
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While googling when trying to help someone I came across the following: http://www.psacake.com/web/func/ It has 92 functions for most common VBScript scenario's it seems like a good addition / learning starting point for a lot of people. Also on the same site is an index of a lot of other usefull resources...
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LookOut is a 3th party search application for MS Outlook. Since MS has acquired this software the download link has disappeared but the old location is still active. The program is free to use and download. You can grab it here: http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/download/Lookout118.exe Update: the link...
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An explanation of the moderation system of /. with some tips. Somehow I just kept on reading /. since I was introduced to it a long time ago, it always kills time and usually in a good way :) How To Read Slashdot
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Webmonkey is back from the dead with fresh content: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/ A great resource that it has is it's javascript code library check that out here: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/javascript_code_library/ Also up and running: http://www.alistapart.com/ Seems to be...
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Seems like this blog is turning into my about email blog :) But this is one of those “for me” links, somehow this service isn't spelled the way I'd expect it to be so using the allmighty google turns up a blank... so I'm adding it here for future reference. So what is it: It's a email gateway...
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A while ago I came across a product which really looks good to me: A PC to Phone connector this connector connects any phone and connects it to a pc through USB effectively making it possible to use your standard phone with things like MSN / SKYPE / ICQ etc. which is great :) It seems to me that this...
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An article about how to do highlighting of the active form element. Looks really good and is very usability enhancing, now its time to wait for someone to roll these into a couple of controls: http://www.ryanbrill.com/archives/form_highlighting_redux/