Mark Downie - PoppaString

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September 22, 2006
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I worked for a company, that shall remain unnamed, that had specific database naming standards. The standards were ...

September 20, 2006
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The online video world appears to have room for one more player as Microsoft puts the new Soapbox up against YouTube. ...

September 18, 2006
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Two great posts that were passed to me from my manager. One for debugging issue with IIS app pool crashes the other ...

September 14, 2006
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Zune is out I am very excited about it, unfortunately I committed $100 to a 1 Gig Sandia c140 MP3 player just a few ...

September 14, 2006
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I have used Excel for years, for things like totals, creating graphs, even organizing projects. I am just not seeing ...

September 13, 2006
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I think I may be the last person with any 'tech sense' to use IE 6 for personal use. I have stuck with it mainly ...

September 12, 2006
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This just up on Scott Gu's Blog ... AJAX is getting full support in ASP.NET\Visual Studio 2005. While there have been ...

September 07, 2006
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There are many inconsistent explanations on the use and nature of ViewState in ASP.NET. Don found this rather detailed ...

August 30, 2006
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Hand held games really started to boom in the 1980's and I was on the band wagon early and often. One of my favorite ...