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September 25, 2009
Rendering a Spark Partial View to a string
I needed to do this recently so I searched the interweb and quickly found this great article by Brent Edwards: http://blog.edwardsdigital.com/post/Rendering-a-Spark-partial-view-to-a-string-or-JSONP-with-ASPNET-MVC.aspx Now don't get me wrong, this w ...
September 16, 2009
Time is Money
As the old adage goes - "Time is Money". This is especially true for those who provide professional services. Traditionally, professional service providers such as accountants or lawyers have recorded their times on paper timesheets and then at the e ...
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September 14, 2009
Spam - is it a real problem? More than 90% of emails are spam.
At PicNet we managed service a number of corporate environments, and at some, we have installed Google email filtering powered by Postini (that we resell rebranded as Risk shield email protection). At others, we have Sophos and also GFI MailEssential ...
September 10, 2009
XML Settings Files - No more web.config
One of my pet hates is working on projects where previous developers have decided to dump all of their settings in the web.config file. Some of the reasons why I dislike this practice is: So now lets look at the nice way of doing this. A settings fil ...
September 1, 2009
Top 10 Bad IT decisions
Want to take a look at the history of stupid decision making in the IT field? Click here: ...
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August 31, 2009
Handy Tool in Windows 7 to force what codec Windows uses
Windows 7 now has built-in support for DivX, XviD, H.264 out of the box! - so you no longer need to install codec packs etc, when playing back your favourite video (AVI) files However even if you do Windows 7 won't use them and use its own DirectShow ...
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