I was going to post this a while ago but I thought I would give it some time to see if a decent solutions was released by Microsoft or Adobe/Macromedia. Recently Microsoft released an update for Internet Explorer which disables active content until the user directly interacts with it. This covers a range of areas […]

I got offered a job today using JSP. I haven’t touched this language at all so I was quite intrigued to see what it looked like. After a bit of reading it seems pretty easy to write although some areas appear much more bloated than C# i.e. there’s a lot of repeating code blocks. C# […]

Its a site where you upload an image with the font in it and it will do its best to tell you the name of the font. This is quite old now but I only just found out about it: What The Font?

If you’ve been having trouble getting anything to appear when using the loadBitmap() function then chances are you’ve made a simple mistake. The documentation says to use the linkageId of a library object as the sole argument for this function i.e: The key to using this function is that you have to attach an actual […]

I had a bit of trouble deciphering the MSDN article below: What MSDN says about using credentials i.e the SmtpClient.Credentials property Using a username and password with the new .net mailer is actually quite easy (C#): As a sidenote, I was trying to send from an smtp server that was running on the same system […]