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WordPress on Windows
Comments By Dale on Saturday, January 16, 2010
A couple of tips on installing WordPress on Windows.
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AJAX / YUI
Comments By Dale on Friday, January 16, 2009
Points of interest I've come across integrating AJAX(YUI) with my apps.
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General IT Comments
Comments By Dale on Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Extracting files from MSI package.
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Employment Opportunities
Comments By Dale on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
We currently have an opening for a web developer. If you are interested please email us with your CV and examples of your work.
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MS SQL Server 2000/2005 Tips & Tricks
Comments By Dale on Thursday, January 10, 2008
A place to keep bits and pieces of useful information relating to MS SQL Server including SQL Country Table Script.
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UK Hosting - Ideal for DotNetNuke (DNN) or ASP.NET + SQL Server 2005 Express
Comments By Dale on Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Hosting is available for a limited number of sites on one of our UK dedicated servers. Its a windows 2003 box with a very small number of sites on the box. Perfect for hosting DotNetNuke (DNN) or any other ASP.NET site that uses SQL Server 2005 Express as the backend. Being dedicated means we can customise any settings such as the IIS extensions etc. Please contact us for more details.
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Development Resources
Comments By Dale on Monday, October 01, 2007
Resources that we've found useful.
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Check out the Castle Project
Comments By Dale on Sunday, September 30, 2007
Ruby on Rails for .net! Castle in an open source project that provides a set of tools to simplify development in .net. I used Castle Monorail which provides an MVC framework and Castle ActiveRecord which provides a data mapper.
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MS Reporting Services
Comments By Dale on Thursday, July 26, 2007

Divide by zero: I had an odd experience today when I tried to prevent a divide by zero by using the IIF statement e.g. =IIf(Term2 <> 0, Term1/Term2, 0) however it appears to try and evaluate 'Term1/Term2' even if it 'Term2 = 0' very strange - so I had to use another IIf statement to ensure that a valid computation happens even though it will never be used e.g. =IIf(Term2 <> 0, Term1/(IIf(Term2 <> 0, Term2, 1), 0).

IIf revisited: OK - so now I understand a bit more about VB I've found out that the IIf statement always evaluates both expressions and then returns one of them. The previous *hack* didn't help when it came time to try and display a parameter which could be null (Nothing). The solution it seems was to write a small function which is embedded in the report. This is done on the Report/Parameters/Code tab. And there is no support for debugging your code so g ...

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.NET Notes
Comments By Dale on Thursday, April 05, 2007
A post to keep track of interesting bits of information regarding .NET development. Latest notes on backing up SQL Server 2005 databases from .NET code and creating / managing compressed filed from .NET code.
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IIS Tips & Tricks
Comments By Dale on Sunday, April 01, 2007
In this post I'll mention any clever things I've come across with regard to IIS.
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Finding a webhost
Comments By Dale on Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Its the bane of many developers lives - finding that webhost which provides the required features for an acceptable price.
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DotNetNuke (DNN) Tips, Tricks and Advice
Comments By Dale on Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Over the time I've used DNN I've found out a few things the hard way and made a point to keep a note of them for future reference. Here they are...
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