Quite frankly, I didn’t knew that there’s even a WHEN clause to the TRY-CATCH block. Thanks to Eric Porter [http://weblogs.asp.net/eporter/archive/2005/08/10/422136.aspx] for sharing this tip! Public Shared Function SaveChangesToServer(ByVal ShouldThrowException As Boolean) As Boolean Try ' Do some…
The upcoming ASP.NET v2.0 contains out-of-the-box support for asynchronous client script callbacks [http://www.simple-talk.com/2005/08/10/asynchronous-client-script-callbacks/]. Go AJaX [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX]!…
With FeedMap [http://www.feedmap.net/BlogMap/] you can geo-code your blog, browse already geo-coded blogs and search for blogs in the blogosphere.…
“What happens to all the crashes in programs not written by Microsoft that are submitted via Windows Error Reporting? Microsoft still collects and indexes them, and vendors can sign up to gain access to the error reporting database [http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/maintain/StartWER.mspx] to see the crashes…
Google News gets RSS and Atom feeds [http://news.com.com/Google+News+gets+RSS+and+Atom+feeds/2100-1038_3-5825454.html] . There seems to be some problems with the Atom feed [http://news.google.com/nwshp?ned=us&topic=t&output=atom] though. I remember writing a PHP…
I’ve had it with Windows Notepad! It sucks – poor character encoding, missing characters, lousy undo’s etc. I’ve now replaced Notepad [http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2004/04/30/124093.aspx] with Notepad2 [http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html], making it the default text editor (basically I…
ActiveSkype [http://www.khaoslabs.com/index.php?page=skypeapi] is a COM wrapper around the Skype API [http://share.skype.com/sdp]…
Damn its cold in Melbourne today. I was a little surprised when I read that Melbourne (mainly the CBD and the adjoining suburb’s) might get (a 40% chance) a snowfall [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/snowfalls-tipped-for-melbournes-cbd/2005/08/10/1123353351466.html] sometime around lunch. I haven’t…