New Project: TV Tweets
I’ve just finished a new small project I started to try out Twitter’s oAuth API. The BBC produce an output of TV listings in XML format, which they make freely available at It’s hosted on a HTTP webpage, zipped…
Month August 2010
Step Into Remote Code with VS Remote Debugging
If you’ve got a development setup which includes webservices which you’ve written and deployed to a local development server, and you’re debugging front-end apps which use these webservices, then you may well want to take advantages of the services of…
Browser Tip of the Day
Save yourself a couple of seconds a day with a quick browser tip. Ctrl + E to bring focus to the search box in the top right hand corner. Work on IE and Firefox.
Managing ‘exclude’ options in Reporting Services
Here’s a good way of making reports more useful by including extra options. Sometimes, you will want to provide the option to exclude or include a particular set of data. For instance, when showing car sales over the last quarter…
Gmail: always looking out for you
I’ve never seen this before, but I just logged into my Gmail account, and this bar was across the top: Yikes! Clicking the link took me to this summary, where I changed my password. Thanks Google! One thing that would…