September 25, 2009
MS SQL
Today i was battling in the trenches while trying to fix a deployment issue on a foreign webhost with a support team that had a lead time of 3 days on a support ticket when i came across a very annoying issue. While trying to import a large MSSQL script (140mb) i was having a repeated dual to the death with the error “701 Insufficient Memory” and his evil twin (kind of like the white dreadlock guys in the Matrix) - “System.OutOfMemoryException” in SQL management studio. But never fear, there is a solution, and its really simple.
September 23, 2009
If you haven’ heard yet there is a new browser in town. Like a mutant cyborg from the future built with used parts from the past the “IE-Chrome” browser has leapt to life. So there has been much talk back and forth over the past day in regards to what this will do for the old browser IE 6 that is the bane of most peoples existences in the development world.
September 17, 2009
Other
I use Google Analytics a lot day to day to help my clients better understand their visitors. As Google Analytics is a remotely hosted statistics solution that uses JavaScript it doesn’t track files downloaded like a regular log file analyser would. So today we’re going to talk about how we can track those file downloads so that you can gain better metrics on documents hosted by your site.
September 14, 2009
ASP.Net
So there i was looking for a simple solution to offer a preview function on a CMS for a client at work, when it hit me. Why try and replicate the content of the page in anyway (i could use a blank page and fill it in, i could carry values as a session and redirect to the front end view page. The reality is: I could do many different things. The real question comes down to “How would a Ninja do it”
September 14, 2009
ASP.Net
Today i had to write a quick method to extract the YouTube video id from a YouTube video URL. So on with the show, lets get onto the code.
September 13, 2009
General banter
I recently took Rob Conery of SubSonic fame’s advice and decided it was time to be a good Jedi and build my own blog engine – on a side note: If you haven’t jumped in and at the very least tried Subsonic well… “friendship over”, not much else i can say. Obviously if you want to write a blog engine, there is no better way than to create your own blog using it – So here goes!