I’m glad I remembered to read last Friday’s technology pages in The Irish Times. Danny O’Brien‘s column was about the new approach to building web applications called Ajax. It’s the reason Google’s newest offerings, like Google Maps and Gmail, function so smoothly, resembling desktop applications rather than the traditional request and wait web model. Adaptive [...]

when setting the selected value in a radiobuttonlist or other list web control in asp.net, it is prudent to check whether the list contains the option you intend selecting first! this avoids those annoying “out of range” error messages. one way of doing this is to use code similar to the following: if not myRadioButtonList.Items.FindByValue("whatever") [...]

i’ve been under the weather again and an unfortunate casualty this time was a microsoft introductory .net lab which i was supposed to attend today i was really looking forward to learning what visual studio had to offer and getting an overview of the exciting features coming in asp.net 2.0. luckily, there seem to be [...]

I frequently suffer from Mondayitis but it can strike on Tuesdays too! I was creating a stored procedure in SQL Server this morning involving GROUP BY, CASE statements, aggregate functions, ISNULL and COALESCE for good measure. Everything was working fine, except that one of the calculated columns was zero all the way down, even though [...]