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RE A concise summation of the last 4 hours

Clark will appreciate this post from Gregg - 21st Century Digital Boy . via Mike Gunderloy’s Daily Grind .

More accessing controls inside a repeater using database id field stored in ViewState

After my last example with using web controls inside a repeater , I have a little more confidence in doing so.  So much so, in fact, that this time I just jumped right in without thinking about it. I’m building this little system for updating…

The comment spam blocking is working, now if I could just do the same with my email!!

I run several different pop email accounts through Outlook at home: my work account, two different accounts through my ISP, a couple of different Digger Solutions accounts and a couple of odds-n-ends accounts.  I’m guessing that both my ISP’s and…

Comment Spamming Bastard Wiener Bastards !!

(the title is a quote borrowed from Rory Blyth ) Thanks to Scott Mitchell’s post today - Stopping Comment Spam in .Text using Triggers , I finally had the nerve to pull the trigger (pun intended) and implement this: Preventing .Text Blog Spam…

Update Am I a bad person for doing this?

RE: Am I a bad person for doing this? Apparently I am. While everything worked fine using Firefox it didn’t work at all in IE.  I was a little bit floored to say the least.  Usually IE is much more forgiving. Passing the content to be displayed in…

Please do not post your comment spam here !!

I don’t care about your online poker, your Cialis, your credit card offers, or whatever else it is you are trying to sell.  I’m going to delete it, I’m going to ban your IP address, and if it keeps up I’ll have to implement a filter on comments to…

Am I a bad person for doing this?

I was just working on a page and I needed to be able to do some sort of preview of the rendered HTML entered into a textbox when the user pressed the preview button.  I really don’t want to leave the page that I’m on so I thought about popping up…

New version of Digger Solutions Newsletter coming out soon.

Over the last few days I have taken a break from porting my intranet application from ASP to ASP.NET to do the same with my newsletter application.  I decided to take a detour from the intranet because it is just simply becoming tiring.  I hadn’t…

How to hang a picture (or how to manage jr programmers) or taken one step further... How to gather project requirements.

Check out this pointedly prolific prose from The Spurious Pundit (via a post on Scott Hanselman’s Blog - ComputerZen.com ) Picture Hanging In it, the author describes how new managers can get into trouble by giving junior developers what they…

In dire need of an Xbox ???

If you are like me and didn’t get that Xbox you wanted for Christmas, you probably have been searching high and low for one since. After searching EVERY local store this week that might even carry video game hardware and checking all the major online…