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Why I’m moving on from Microsoft

I think most people who know me personally by now know that I’m very shortly moving on from Microsoft to pastures new. For everyone else, I thought I should briefly explain what’s going on and what I’ll be doing next. Basically the reason I’m leaving Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:38 AM by John Pollard | 3 Comments

An IE8 Accelerator for sharing on Posterous

I've been working on my friend Josie's website and was looking for a simple solution for her to be able to post news, updates etc. without too much technical knowledge. After looking around a loads of different blogging sites, software and stuff somewhere Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 6:48 PM by John Pollard | 0 Comments
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Experiments with my Garmin GPS and Windows Live Maps

I love my Garmin 275 nüvi ! I’ve always put off buying a SatNav as it somehow seems a sign of weakness to not know where you are, but now I have one I wouldn’t be without it. What I also like is the integration with Windows Live Maps , in particular the Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:48 AM by John Pollard | 0 Comments
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Fixing an issue with Windows Live Toolbar and Favorites Sync

I’ve always used the Windows Live Toolbar to sync favorites across my multiple machines, so it was a bit disappointing when the previous beta removed that functionality with the demise of http://favorites.live.com That meant I was pleased to see the service Read More...
Posted Monday, December 22, 2008 2:04 PM by John Pollard | 4 Comments
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Linking Fire Eagle and Twitter

The next stage in my plan to let the whole world know where I am has been to hook up my Fire Eagle location to Twitter, so every time my location changes a Tweet is sent to everyone following me . I thought for a while about hooking up my code to Twitter Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 06, 2008 8:45 AM by John Pollard | 0 Comments

Using Fire Eagle to store your current location

Not that you’d really notice, but I’ve updated the code to show my current location on the map on this blog to use Fire Eagle to store my current location. If you haven’t heard of it before, Fire Eagle is a service provided by Yahoo! which lets you store Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 29, 2008 5:34 PM by John Pollard | 0 Comments
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Super-fast MSDN

I got this tip in the pub on Friday from my friend Bobby who works on the MSDN team. He told me he’d worked on implementing a low bandwidth version of the site, which is simpler and much, much faster than usual view. I’d never heard of this, but a quick Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 09, 2008 5:17 PM by John Pollard | 0 Comments
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Showing my current location using Virtual Earth

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Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 1:49 AM by John Pollard | 0 Comments

ASP.Net Compilation Tool - do you want to allow updates without redeploying?

We found an interesting issue today regarding our use of pre-compiled ASP.Net websites that I thought I would share, as we learnt something that we didn’t know before. In our particular setup (for reasons too complicated to go into here), we have an ASP.Net Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:41 AM by John Pollard | 0 Comments
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Blog Relaunch

Well “relaunch” is a little grand, but I thought I’d try to make a bit better use of this blog. The plan is to try to post more regularly, still trying to share code or ideas I’ve found useful which hopefully others may find useful too. Looking back at Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:05 AM by John Pollard | 0 Comments
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Using a parameter in a SELECT TOP statement in SQL

As usual, this may well be common knowledge but I found this useful. In a stored procedure we were passing in a parameter (say @maxRows) which we wanted to use to dynamically limit the number of rows returned by the query. For ages we couldn't find a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:42 PM by John Pollard | 3 Comments
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debugger command in JavaScript

I don't do much client-side JavaScript programming, and I've always had intermittent issues when trying to attach a Visual Studio debugger to a instance of IE when I'm trying to figure out what's going on. However in August 2007's MSDN Magazine (doesn't Read More...
Posted Monday, July 09, 2007 3:03 PM by John Pollard | 0 Comments
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SQL Parameters and Types

I found the following page interesting when having issues setting a value in a SqlParameter constructor. From http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0881fz2y.aspx : When you specify an Object in the value parameter, the SqlDbType is inferred from the Read More...
Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 2:35 PM by John Pollard | 0 Comments
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Performance Counters Fun

Recently had some issues setting up some custom perf counters to install and run from an ASP.Net page that I thought I'd share. We began by using the information in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555129 which states: "It turns out that the permission Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:25 PM by John Pollard | 0 Comments

CTRL + Click opens new tab in IE7

Is this a well known trick and I'm just completely out of touch? Probably, but I was very excited when I found out that holding down CTRL when clicking a link in IE7 will open the link in a new tab. To think all this time I was using right click and then Read More...
Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 8:58 AM by John Pollard | 2 Comments
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