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Installing EPiServer Mail on WinXP

Built-in Administration account — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:04:23 +0100

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

Crop your photos for display on gadgets

Built-in Administration account — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:23:48 +0100

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...

DB Blast from the (inefficient) past

Built-in Administration account — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:42:15 +0000

Goodbye Microsoft Access, Hello MySQL

Cool links for February 2008

Built-in Administration account — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:23:47 +0000

A few nice web things I've found during February:

PicLens - an impressive browser add-on that lets you browse web images using a fullscreen 3D "wall".

Recursive FindControl function in C#

Built-in Administration account — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:23:41 +0000

.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.

Rotate AVI videos taken from a camera or phone

Built-in Administration account — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:38:49 +0000

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. [...]

To sitemap or not to sitemap?

Built-in Administration account — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:14:42 +0000

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...

Windows explorer loading slowly and other issues

Built-in Administration account — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:50:16 +0000

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

Nintendo is missing a trick with Wii "Mii"'s

Built-in Administration account — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:40:54 +0000

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...

Breakpoints stopped working in VS2005

Built-in Administration account — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:52:38 +0000

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...