British Columbia Turns 150
BC reaches the 150 year mark.
August 4 2008
Archive for the 'General' Category
Happy Birthday Canada
Well, what do you know. Tall ships just ended, and here we have another reason to celebrate: it’s Canada Day!
Refreshing on my history here, Canada was officially formed in 1867, 141 years ago. The country initially consisted of a handful of provinces in eastern Canada. Over the years, the remaining provinces, and the territories, were [...]
July 1 2008
Tall Ships Return to Victoria
I greatly enjoyed the Tall Ships Festival when it was in Victoria in 2005. So of course I was looking forward to its return this year.
June 30 2008
25
Well, May 14 is the day. Yessirreee, according to my birth certificate I was born on May 14, 1983. So May 14, 2008 would have me at 25 years.
Wow. It’s hard to believe I’ve been around for a quarter century. It’s been interesting 25 years all right. Time to see what [...]
May 14 2008
State of the Blog: 2007
Time for the standard end-of-year review, and peek at the upcoming 2008.
December 31 2007
links for 2007-12-20
ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Using the CustomValidator Control
Illustrates use of ASP.NET’s custom validator control when custom validation is needed
(tags: asp.net controls validation)
ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Disabling the Submit Button Until a CheckBox is Checked
Shows how a custom CheckBoxValidator control from a previous article can be extended to conditionally enable or disable a form button
(tags: asp.net controls validation)
December 20 2007
links for 2007-12-18
mod_rewrite: A Beginner’s Guide to URL Rewriting [Apache & IIS Configuration]
(tags: apache htaccess mod_rewrite)
Top 7 PHP Security Blunders [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]
Shows various potential security issues when writing PHP-based sites
(tags: PHP security)
Roland Weigelt’s GhostDoc
GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C#. Either by using existing documentation inherited [...]
December 18 2007
links for 2007-12-14
The Visual Studio Look and Feel - Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#]
Patrick Smacchia has released an updated version of NDepend with a GUI similar to Visual Studio
(tags: .net tools ndepend)
Styling Forms with Attribute Selectors - Part 1 - Opera Developer Community
In this article, the first of a two-part series, we will look at attribute selectors and [...]
December 14 2007