I was asked to do an evaluation of the product for deployment for a certain well known diamond company.

by celerity design on September 24, 2008

It's often nice to be able to take the best part of a photo, for display on a particular device. For example: Desktop wallpapers / screensavers / Mobile phone backgrounds / Viewing photo albums on a PSP / iPod / iPhone etc / Sending an MMS picture message...

by celerity design on July 31, 2008

Goodbye Microsoft Access, Hello MySQL

by celerity design on March 13, 2008

by celerity design on February 29, 2008

.Net coding can be frustrating, when you're trying and failing to do something simple. In this case, I was trying to enable or disable a RequiredFieldValidator based on some criteria. I knew the ID of the controls I was trying to enable, but due to various templates and custom controls, a normal Page.FindControl() call didn't work.

by celerity design on February 28, 2008

A common problem when using compact cameras or phones is that the person shooting the video rotates the camera to shoot in "portrait" mode. Unfortunately this means that when played back on a PC or DVD player, the video is shown on its side. [...]

by celerity design on February 20, 2008

Should a website have a sitemap? The usual advice is that if you have enough pages to merit it, then "yes". I'm not so sure though...

by celerity design on February 14, 2008

The Nintendo Wii is a fantastically conceived bit of kit [...] However, I can't help but feel they haven't exploited the viral marketing potential of their "Mii" characters...

by celerity design on February 07, 2008

My main Windows XP PC has started exhibiting various signs of slow down, affecting Explorer, Thunderbird and Word...

by celerity design on January 24, 2008

I've just rejoined a C# project and my breakpoints stopped working in Visual Studio 2005. Needless to say, this was hugely annoying. It seems this is quite common though, Googling provided the following solutions...

by celerity design on January 23, 2008