ASP.NET Gridview and CSS
Here's a quick tutorial on combining a style sheet with an ASP.NET gridview control. The only reason I've picked on the Gridview control is that I'm using it extensively at the moment. This is somet…
The guilty pleasure that is H P Lovecraft
Over the last couple of days I've taken a break from Don DeLillo's 'Libra' and have returned to one of my all time favourite horror / science fiction writers, H P Lovecraft. In particular, I'm re-rea…
The Bus Book - w/c 24th March - The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work
Andrew Mawson (now a Cross Bencher in the House of Lords) has written a very important book with this work. It chronicles his experiences in Bromley-by-Bow, an impoverished area of East London, from …
Will no one think about the children...
I'm a big fan of 'The Simpsons' and in one episode there is a morally outraged female character who keeps screaming the expression 'Will no one think about the children' whenever something crops up. I…
Reluctantly joining Facebook....
Sigh..... That it should come to this. Unfortunately a group I belong to is going to be using Facebook, and given that I'm supposed to be the IT guy, I am expected to know how it works. So, I've regi…
A great site - www.thisisawar.com
Earlier on today I was looking for the text of the 'vision thing' speech from the start of Jerry Maguire. As to why I was looking for it - let's just say I needed some motivation. For those of you w…
The Bus Book - w/c 17th March - On Civil Disobedience
As the copy I have of 'On Walden pond' also includes this essay, it seemed churlish to not feature it here. Thoreau spent a night in prison during his time at Walden, because he neglected to pay a loc…
Installing PEAR packages on WAMP
Well, after getting caught out recently with PEAR on a client installation, I thought it a good move to write a short tutorial for anyone who needs to install PEAR packages on their WAMP installation.…
Arthur C Clarke - RIP
Bugger. Like a lot of things, I guess that in my heart of hearts I knew that eventually all the venerable old writers of science fiction, the folks who I grew up with, would all pass away. When it st…
Firefox slacker than IE? Surely some mistake...
I'm currently working with some other developers creating a PHP / SQL Server 2005 based site. The division of work is along the lines of I do PHP and SQL, and they take my less than beautiful code an…