Dave Riley

Image button found guilty of not being valid xhtml horror!!!

The .net image button seems so innocent but a trip over to w3c.org and the html validator soon exposes the terrible truth. Prepare yourself for this, sit down, have a large brandy ready... It renders border="0" even though you haven't put one in there yourself! try it! Put any xhtml 1.0 transitional site into the validator: http://validator.w3.org/ And watch in utter horror while your site is rejected as a bad example to kids everywhere. So what is going on here? And is there anyway...

Flash Video not running on IIS 6 windows server 2003

Seen this one before but while chatting with some (tech) friends I discovered most seemed to think that this should just work out of the box, well unfortunately it doesn't. But adding support on you windows driven website isn't that hard, just a few short steps. So I thought it might be useful to explain here: You need to add the .flv MIME type to IIS: First click on the site to configure in IIS, right click - select "Properties". Under HTTP Headers Tab, select "File Types" button...

SQL Server 2008 finally we can script data

I was at the UK launch of SQL Server, but a lot of that event seemed to focus on some very niche features, new location type data, the usual better performance stats and better reporting facilities. While these are great, I dispair at the loss of the open table, now we open top 200 for editing. I understand that the open table was not efficient but it was handy when something has gone wrong at the 11th hour; so why not just give both options? you can do the top 200 on a production machine,...

Dave working with Neil Read

I've been working with Neil Read this week, we've come up with some revolutionary social networking techniques to promote websites, watch this...

Hotel Spa and Ueda old town

We went to a hotel spa in Komoro, it was much posher than the public spa but a lot smaller. Granda managed not to get lost or lose his clothes this time! For obvious reasons I didn't take any photos there as we're naked again :-) Afterwards we had lunch which was a Chinese banquet - very nice i especially liked the noodles. Not sure why I didn't take photos of that, maybe just focusing on the food :-) Can't be taking photos all the...