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There is an upcoming Flex presentation being done by a fellow web developer, happening right here in Victoria in just two weeks.

Some somewhat worrisome news lately: Mozilla may be looking to offload the Thunderbird project.

Having recently adopted Thunderbird as my preferred email client, I found out it can do something else besides email: it can interface with Google Calendar.

I had read about Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client before in the news, but never paid much attention to it. I recently decided to give it a try, and had some good first impressions.

Forms are a very useful fixture on the web these days. Even more useful are multi-page forms, where a large form is broken down into several sections, each collecting a set of related information. There are numerous ways to do this with ASP and ASP.NET; I’m going to show you how I do it.

I enjoy blogging. Well, as this site shows, maybe not so much in the writing part of it. But I enjoy discovering and reading blogs on a variety of subjects, and leaving comments. There are many, many smart and interesting people out there, and the things they write about - be they [...]

I’ve recently started working with ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, and SQL Server 2005. Not exactly brand-new technologies, but I wanted to give them a try. Today I’ll be writing about my impressions on these new tools.

Using Firefox makes web development easier; this is in part due to the many useful extensions available to streamline the development process. Well, there’s a new one to toss on the pile.

24 Days is a website established last year where each day leading up to Christmas has a useful tip or technique published for use by web developers. It’s getting started for a new round of useful advice.

Internet Explorer - the long-awaited update to Microsft’s web browser - has finally been released to the public. There is much discussion on the subject, from how it will affect the web browser market, to improvements made to the browser, and to things that still need working on. This post is my take on the subject.