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Last day of holidays must be the best time to write a blog about my favorite photos of 2010. All of my photos this year have been shot by my Lumix G1. About half way through the year I bought the 4...
If you are like me you love to use quick keys. Below is a list of quick keys that will hopefully help you as much as they have helped me..
I thought that the moving clouds were the reason this shot was 1 out of a few hundred, but in r...
In this blog post you will learn how to connect to a Data Source and create your first Data Set. You can then use this to extract data from any OLAP cubes and compile a report that you can then exp...
I have found that a common behaviour that people want to see in their reports is changing the font color depending on whether or not a value meets, or does not meet certain thresholds. This can be ...
One common behavior that people want to implement on their SSRS Reports is alternating background colors for a table. This makes the report rows easier to read and allows the user to find the data ...
One of the useful things you can do in SSRS 2008 is pagination. This is useful if you are creating a PDF report for your client and want to display the page number in the footer, or other parts of ...
This tutorial was designed to show you how to create a list of strings and bind it to a drop down list in asp.net.
First we must create a DropDownList and place it in the front end of our w...
This shot was taken down by the Espenade in Sk.Kilda a place I like to visit and take photos. I like this p...
Walking back from the Moeraki boulders I found this pair of sun glasses. I grabbed a few shots quic...
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to use Microsoft's Deep Zoom Composer to create a very large photo, or set of photos that can be exported and then be used inside Silverlight to create a...
This tutorial is going to show you how to add a new Silverlight Application to an already existing Web application in ASP.NET
Follow these steps in order to create a new Silverlight Applica...
With my recent purchase of an iPhone one of the first things I wanted to do was put in some custom ring tones. Apparently this is not as easy as just dragging the files into a specified...
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Phrases such as "Wow, that was a great walk", "I really had fun on that walk", "I wish I could do that walk again" are very seldom heard coming from my mouth. Especially after yesterdays Okai expe...
Well, I thought that I would start my new Blog Adventures section with my recent trip to Okai. Okai is located at the end of Riddell road in the Papanui Inlet.
As I arrived at the end of the...
"Have you run your fingers down the wall. And have you felt your neck skin crawl. When you're searching for the light? Sometimes when you're scared to take a look. At the corner of the room. Yo...
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I recently ported my Website off of my server in my study to proper hosting. The server that I had in my study used Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Unfortunately the hosting provider that I used...
"Baptism by fire". This was a phrase used commonly by my solution lead (Hamish Dobson) during my time on Intergen Dunedin's current project. We had just over 3 weeks to deliver a complex system tha...
The ASP.NET DateTime can be used in many different ways. One of the recent things I had to use it for was making sure that only content after a certain date would be published. So, what I had to do...
There are a couple of jQuery Datepickers out there. The one that I have used lately comes from jQuery.com. the nice thing about this Datepicker is...
Recently we have become extremely busy at work. I have been doing a large amount of work around the mark up pages. I needed to apply some validation around the text boxes on a page. Some of ...
I have recently returned from a work trip up to Wellington where I worked on a Silverlight project with the team up there. With the up and coming release of Office 2010 we were given the task of cr...
I have been up in Wellington, New Zealand recently working on a Silverlight project. I have of course had access to all of my links and rss feeds through the internet I just wasn't in my usual rout...
I have recently been shipped up to Wellington to do some Silverlight work for a Microsoft presentation. I have worked with Silverlight a little in practice, but never in a professional environment....
I recently watched Casino. I have seen the movie before, but it was a long, long time ago. It came out in 1995, when to be honest Robert De Niro was doing his best work with movie titles Heat, Roni...
One word. Amazing. This is my favorite film so far this year. It was fantastic. If you like action movies you need to go and see this movie, right now. If you don't want to have the movie sp...
Once again another World Event where you have to travel all over the world. Hello sitting in the major cities selling Teleports for ridiculous amounts of gold. As a Mage we obviously have an advant...
Do you remember watching WWF Wrestling as a kid? I do. One moment I will never forget is when Mankind got "Tombstoned" through the cage (20 feet from mat) by the Undertaker onto a table. I don't ca...
If you are anything like me you loathe many things. One of those things is focus in Windows. It drives me bonkers sometimes when things take focus when I do not want them too. I was introduced to a...
With the arrival of Windows 7 just around the corner I thought it might be useful to do a writeup about Windows 7 Hotkeys. If you are like me and prefer to use hotkeys then this post will be useful...
I have recently been doing quite a bit of work with ADO.NET Linq to Entities. So, I thought that I would share what I have learned so far. Some of the main points I will be touching on are setting...
Well, it was inevitable that I would have a World of Warcraft blog as soon as humanly possible. I have recently been building this blog engine on an ADO.NET Linq to Entities environment tha...
All of the banners that are on my Website were shot by me. So, I thought it might be appropriate to do a write up on how I make them. I don't use photoshop, although I have heard that you can use it a...
