Business and Marketting

Safari Bookshelf

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:37:00 GMT

Safari Bookshelf

Subscription on-line bookshelf. Lots of IT related text books that you can search or just read through.

TimeSnapper

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:17:00 GMT

TimeSnapper - make timesheets a snap
TimeSnapper is an Automatic Screenshot Journal. It runs in the background of your computer, taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds all week long.

SpeedFiler

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:49:00 GMT

Claritude Software: Products
Good looking tool to help you file emails in Outlook. Having used it for a few days now, it really looks useful.

Credit Card Payment Process with ASP.NET

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:54:00 GMT

Credit Card Payment Processing with ASP.NET
Rick Strahl has published a excellent (and very comprehensive) new article on techniques to perform credit-card payment processing with ASP.NET. He also includes full source code examples (for both ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0).

Recent Links

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:17:00 GMT

MSBuild Community Tasks Project releases new version
The MSBuild Community Tasks Project releases version v1.1.0.145. There are many new tasks in this release.

VS 2005 Web Application Project Release Candidate Now Available
Release Candidate of the VS 2005 Web Application Project. You can download it now from here.

Download or Order Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition for Free
The full software for 32-bit and 64-bit versions is available as a free download.

Ophcrack 2.0 - fastest Windows password cracker - The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog
If you have a Windows machine that you have somehow forgotten the password to, or one that you genuinely require access to but for some reason do not have the password, this little utility might be just the ticket to gain access.

Steve Eichert - Automated Unit Testing
A series of posts on the process of automating the unit testing of CRUD operations on business objects.

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Unit Testing the Data Access Layer
Using these techniques, we can test database objects like stored procedures, functions, triggers, and the DAL that uses them.

Fix Your Access Database

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:27:00 GMT

Fix Your Access Database
This page tells you about an automated web service that will help you retrieve data and software from a corrupt or damaged Access database for a fee (Minimum US$50).

Standards

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:52:00 GMT

SSW Rules to Better ...
SSW is an Australian software house that has an huge amount of standards that they have made public. These cover every conceivable choice that someone working there, and, by extension, any other software house, can make. An excelent resource.

Window XP Home Support Scheduled to End This Year

Stuart Radcliffe — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:57:00 GMT

RadicalStu points out that Microsoft appear to be saying that they will discontinue support for Window XP Home at the end of this year. This would mean that there would be no more security updates for Windows XP Home; an operating system that is likely to still be installed by default on new computers bought well into the second half of this year before the release of Window Vista.

Recent Links

Stuart Radcliffe — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:05:00 GMT

Office Developer Center: Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions Using Windows Installer: Walkthroughs (Part 2 of 2)
This article, the second of two, provides two walkthroughs about deploying a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System solution using a Visual Studio Setup project to create a Windows Installer package.

Office Developer Center: Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions Using Windows Installer (Part 1 of 2)
This article targets developers who want to deploy a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System solution using a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package.

ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman - Virtual Machines and External Hard Drive throughput
The conclusion is that either USB 2.0 or Firewire are both very reasonable solution for the power user's external HD needs when running Virtual Machines.

City-wide wi-fi rolls out in UK
The Cloud will bring wireless broadband to nine cities including London, Manchester and Birmingham.

Make VSTO for Outlook solutions run right off the MSI
There are a couple of things you've got to do manually to make a Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 application run straight off the MSI.

PCQuest : Developer : Introducing Windows Mobile 5.0
The latest release of this development platform for mobiles and hand-helds adds new capabilities like Pocket Outlook Object Model and System Event Notification.

InTheHand.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook
Pocket Outlook In The Hand is a wrapper library around the Pocket Outlook Object Model (POOM). This namespace is equivalent to Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook namespace in Windows Mobile 5.0.

Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook
The Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook namespace provides classes that allow you to create and access PIM data items (Appointments, Tasks, and Contacts), and MAPI messaging items (e-mail and SMS messages), on Pocket PCs and Smartphones.

System.Net.Mail, OH MY!
FAQ for System.NET.Mail namespace.

GridView: Adding Confirmation before Deleting Items (using the OnClientClick property)
A pretty easy way to add confirmation pop-ups for delete command (or update or edit or any other command) using a GridView control, or before any other post-back event in ASP.NET.

Paging through lots of data efficiently (and in an Ajax way) with ASP.NET 2.0
This sample is a self-contained ASP.NET application that demonstrates a few things:

Stop Those Annoying Outlook Warning Messages
Turn on and off in code.

Welcome to Outlook Exchange
This code will load a ComboBox with sorted data from a Contacts folder.

Core JavaScript Reference 1.5: - Dates
Lots of information and examples about working with dates in Javascript

Thau's JavaScript Tutorial - Functions with More Than 1 Parameter

Thau's JavaScript Tutorial - Text Fields
Text fields understand onBlur, onFocus, and onChange.

HTML / JavaScript Reference - mredkj.com
Intro to JS - Basics, Variables, SCRIPT tag

HTML/JavaScript - Select list - Add/Remove Options (Old School) - mredkj.com
Functions to insert, append, and remove options from a multiple select list.

Advanced Basics: The Sound of Music -- MSDN Magazine, January 2006
Prior to working with Visual Studio® 2005, adding even simple tunes and system sounds to your application could be a challenge. There are numerous new classes and namespaces that have been added to the Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 to help you do just t

ASP.NET Development Center: Turning an .ascx User Control into a Redistributable Custom Control
With previous versions of ASP.NET, developers had to decide whether to create custom controls or user controls. This article looks at a method for easily creating custom controls from existing user controls (ASCX files).

Unit Testing Tips: Write Maintainable Unit Tests That Will Save You Time And Tears -- MSDN Magazine, January 2006
In this article, I'll try to bring you some of the most important practices I've learned over the years while developing and consulting, and while training developers. These tips should help you write effective, maintainable, and robust unit tests.

NUnit 2.2.4: .NET 2.0 Support, Extensibility Support and new Asserts and Attributes
New release of the top .NET Unit Test facility.

Cool SQL Server and SQL Express Command-Line Utility

Online Backup May Be Ready for the Consumer

Stuart Radcliffe — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:59:00 GMT

Fred Wilson has an interesting article on his feeling that the time has come for on-line backup solutions for the consumer. He is unusual in having used one of these for ten years but admits that this is too expensive at $20 per month. There are a few other competitors in the market now at lower price points. A business worth considering I think.