Monthly Archives: September 2005

Google’s “Personlised Home”

Google have just released their “Personalised Home” for those of us with a Google account. (Gmail, for example) It allows you to subscribe to feeds right there on the search engine home page, as well as numerous other bits of … Continue reading

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Catch key presses in a Windows Forms application

Simple enough to do. Set the “KeyPreview” property of the form to “True” Create a KeyUp event handler, eg private void Form1_KeyUp(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e) { if(e.KeyCode == Keys.F12) { // Do something here } } Wire the event handler … Continue reading

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Spam just gets better and better!

This just arrived in my work inbox. It is great on so many levels… Dear Home Owner, After satisfying the analysis we are jubilant to provide for you this endorsement, Your current mortgage qualifies you for more than a 3.4 … Continue reading

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Thin Sliced Bread

A good friend of mine asked me an interesting question last weekend. “What happened to thin sliced bread?” It got me wondering, so today I got off my backside and went to do a (very small) bit of research. I … Continue reading

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Problems re-installing VS.NET 2003

I tried the latest beta of VS.NET 2005 a few weeks ago, didn’t enjoy it so I uninstalled it. Anyway, that’s by the by. My problem was when I was tried to put 2003 back on, I was getting the … Continue reading

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Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

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PHP Galleries for Picasa

I have just completed an initial draft of a PHP-based photo gallery system. Take a look. The readme is available separately here The system is built on templates designed by Douglas Bowman Download the slim version (just an msi package … Continue reading

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