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When did you last ask an Aardvark a question?
Not too long ago, companies chased the illusive ‘Web 2.0′ buzz-phrase which seemed to only consist of glossy icons and sticking ‘BETA’ somewhere on your new site design. These days it’s ’social networks’ that is the ‘must-have’ feature for the success of any new online service.
Social networks have their uses in finding out what your friends [...]
Speedy MIME Image decoding using HTML
I’ve been working with our Esendex Email MMS service which forwards any inbound MMS picture messages to an email address. As the picture is MIME encoded I needed a quick way to check the image included.
Thanks to a post by Zmeeagain I found the very handy trick of pasting the Base64 encoded text into an [...]
Avoid Google keyword detection picking up Firefox ‘aq=’
For those of you who are monitoring or stripping keywords from referrer strings from Google you may be seeking out the query string parameter ‘q=’.
Beware that a simple string match on ‘q=’ could lead you to match on the additional Firefox parameter ‘aq=’. This appears in a Google referrer string if the search terms were [...]
TechEd : Day 1
Greetings from Barcelona. Today started in the afternoon with the keynote speech from Jason Zander which has introduced new functionality in Visual Studio 2010. A very honest bloke who was brave enough to demo us Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7. Not just taking the safety off, but practically taking the tightrope away as well.
I’m [...]
Using MSBuild to deploy a website cross-domain
The task: to have an automated build process which would take the fresh built files and deploy them on a remote web server.
The challenge: the remote web server was not in the same domain as the machine with Team Build on it.
Initial research found plenty of helpful advice on how to do a copy using [...]
Remote Desktop Connection Smart Sizing
If you use Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) a lot then you might be interested in an option that’s not available via the GUI. ‘Smart Sizing’ allows you to scale the screen to the size of the RDC window rather than the default option where the remote desktop gets cropped.
If you open a new RDC [...]
C# Abstract Exceptions
We’ve just been writing some new exceptions based initially on an abstract Exception class. When the attempt to write a catch statement to catch all exceptions which inherited from this abstract base class it wasn’t behaving as expected.
The gotcha here is that C#/.NET doesn’t allow you to catch exceptions from an abstract class. If you [...]
Is Microsoft’s future ‘delicious’?
So have you had chance to see Microsoft’s (supposed) answer to Apple’s excellent Get A Mac adverts yet?
Well in case not, I’ve included it after the break. So I get the fact its got people talking because its obtuse, I get the fact that its not tying them to advertising one product but seriously have [...]
Ur clrd 2 lnd
In case you’ve not yet realised the business benefits of using SMS, then maybe this story from Ireland will help convince you.
The Irish Times wrote a story last Thursday about how an air traffic controller used SMS to guide a plane down safely.
He then lost audio telephone contact but the air traffic controller switched to [...]
Powered by Elephants
Apparently this coffee is elephant powered. Well, made with Elephant Beans anyway.
Unlike that Kopi Luha (sp) whose beans have passed through the digestive system of a wild cat, I’m hoping these haven’t been fished out of some dung. I jest of course as it refers to the size of the beans.
It does make you start [...]
