April 2006 Entries

‘Write in C…Write in C’

I've not surfed the net for random stuff in years, but came across one geektastic song.  Let It Be         When I find my code in tons of trouble,     Friends and colleagues come to me,     Speaking words of wisdom:     "Write in C."         As the deadline fast approaches,     And bugs are all that I can see,     Somewhere, someone whispers:     "Write in C."         Write in C, Write in C,     Write in C, oh, Write in C.     LOGO's dead and buried,     Write in C.         I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,     For science it worked flawlessly.     Try using it for...

posted @ Sunday, April 30, 2006 2:04 PM | Feedback (0)

Target ‘in’ xhtml

I've been looking at making my websites more compliant, especially xhtml 1.1, using ASP.NET v2.0. To ensure ASP.NET outputs XHTML 1.1 strict html you can add the following element into the web.config file < xhtmlConformance mode="Strict" />> However it doesn't seem to stop the AdRotator control rendering a target attribute on an anchor tag. I never knew till today that the target attribute isn't actually in HTML 4.01 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1 Strict. So if you use this WebControl you can't output Strict html.

posted @ Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:04 PM | Feedback (0)

Did scoble pull a blog entry?

I got a feed update in feeddemon and one was scobles titled 'The $100 million decision'. I thought it was worthy of a forward to a friend to see what he thinks (after all he hates the adverts) but upon going to the post entry the message 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria'. Does this mean he's pulled it due to higher powers that be and I just happened to grab the feed while it was available? Going to his front blog page also has the post magically gone.

posted @ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:04 PM | Feedback (0)