Using an iPhone with the Visual Studio development server & Charles

Dave Ward did a good post recently on how to use the Visual Studio development server from a mobile devise such as an iPhone. But there’s a problem for us here, we use Charles which I have found to be…

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CSS3: Using the fun stuff in real life

Sweep IE6 under the carpet Do whatever you can to remove IE6 support from your website’s build spec. Proper CSS selectors like the direct child (ul > li), the :hover state for elements other than a…

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.Net Open Source Blog Comparison

When I started creating this site this morning, the first thing i though to myself was that I wasn’t going to use BlogEngine.Net for yet another blog. So I went on a mission to find some other open so…

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How to embed ASMX web services in a DLL

The development of uComponents for Umbraco is still ongoing but is probably close to a v1.0 release. During the development of the Multi-node tree picker data type, I’ve spotted a bug in the Umbraco c…

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And it begins

The first post of my new blog…

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Vertically centring multi-line text with CSS

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.So you have a fixed height container, and you w…

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Consume Json REST service with WCF and dynamic object response

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.This was my first shot at WCF and though I saw…

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Mixing percentage and pixel dimensions in CSS

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.Okay, so there is no trick to actually compute…

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VirtualPathUtility Fixed in .Net 4

If you are not already aware there’s an issue with the VirtualPathUtility object in the .Net framework. If you are trying to use the IsAbsolute or ToAbsolute methods with a path that contains a query…

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Injecting JavaScript into other frames

The beautiful part of JavaScript is that it is ridiculously flexible and lets you do things that ‘probably’ shouldn’t be done. Here’s a good example of that. During uComponents development I stumble…

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