Dave Riley

iPhone… the waiting!

Ok, so I finally did it. I've commited to building some iPhone apps. The mac has been ordered, a mac mini with 4gb memory and 360hd. The developer community has been joined and now we wait. No idea where this is going to go. it's exciting but nervous at the same time. I've got some ideas for some free apps that I want to introduce and will put some of the tech details here. But beyond that I do not know, hoping for some inspiration. Any suggestions or ideas for new iPhone apps to...

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,...

I never want to see that dog again!!!!

Ok call me cruel but even with it's big brown eyes looking at me I hate it, I hate it sooo much... Sorry for being negative, but you must know the scenario; I know I have a document somewhere can't remember the  name but it mentioned "Thomas Jones" or "Project proteus" or "something that I wouldn't normally put into a document" and I need to find it. Time is running out the pressure is on. But I'm using MS Windows so everything is fine this is a professional operating system that has...