September 2006 - Posts
Well I suppose the title of this post should really read "ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions DragOverlayExtender Quirk" because, as you probably know, Scott Guthrie recently posted about the roadmap and name changes for Atlas . Anyway, to the point of the post.
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I used to kick myself after I hit "Send" in Outlook before attaching a document I'd intended to. Or after accidentally hitting CTRL-ENTER. Or when I decided that maybe I'd been a little less than diplomatic in my reply and wanted a chance to change it.
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Clearly inspired by my Code Formatting Plugin , Mike's gone off and written a snipping tool plugin which makes inserting screenshot snippets into your blog entry a doddle. In fact, Mike's gone a bit mad with it and his blog is now littered with the things!
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Microsoft Campus and DDD IV Yes, believe it or not it's almost upon us again. Developer Developer Developer IV (or just DDD IV for short) is set for Saturday 2nd December at the Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park, Reading and they're looking for speakers.
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Martin has a nice post over here about adding images to items in the Ribbon. We were chatting about it yesterday as we were both a bit stumped about how to use the "image" attribute. Eventually we figured it out and Martin's summarised the various mechanisms
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Get them while they're hot. They're lovely. Only half a denar [caveat - not strictly true at current exchange rates]. Office 2007 Beta 2 Tech Refresh "Take a look at the updated user interface, improved ribbon design, and better accessibility support.
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If, like me, you're getting this message when trying to click a hyperlink within Outlook 2007 (on Vista RC1): "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." Take a look at
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This question has been put to me a couple of times so I thought I'd share my findings. It's not that uncommon a scenario; perhaps you want users to be able to submit a partially completed form or perhaps there are multiple roles involved in the completion
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As rebrandings go, it's unlikely to win "Most innovative product rebranding of the year" but Microsoft Expression Web Designer has been renamed to Microsoft Expression Web. Microsoft Expression Web is our professional web design tool to create and modify
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I'd be pretty pleased with myself if I ever made it onto that list so I'll bet Eileen's feeling pretty smug at the moment . Congratulations Eileen and thanks for linking to my Live Writer source code plugin . I've also managed to tidy up my tag cloud
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Jonathan very kindly mailed me and pointed me at ZoomClouds which would have done exactly what I wanted. Rather than using the Technorati API they use a Yahoo API ( the content analysis API ) and their own content analysis tool to automatically generate
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Last week I think I started to suffer from "Blog widget envy". Everywhere I looked there were location widgets, tag cloud widgets, "Today I'm feeling ...." widgets, "Listening to Genesis, Invisible Touch" widgets. Okay, so I was less envious of the latter
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To be honest, for me, I'm not sure any day was meant for running. It's like really, really hard work and I'm not sure I'm cut out for it. In a vain (either meaning of the word) attempt to lose some weight I started running a couple of years ago (actually
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Holiday season is over and that must mean it's time for the events season to kick off again!. We've got a few events lined up for September at various venues. Here are the direct links; The Web : Designing and Developing Compelling Sites and Applications
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