I found this project the other day while I was searching for something about kde, it's the Swift web browser. Swift is a shell for the Win32 port from the open source WebKit project. WebKit is the rendering engine used in Safari and Shiira, which is based on the source from the Linux rendering engine KHTML used in browsers such as Konqueror.One thing that I've always admired about the output from Safari is the smooth aliased appearance of the page and in particular the page text. Couple this with KHTML's standards complaint track record Swift may be a neat...
Just recently I have been getting bombed with more trackback spam then I'd like. SUB has some built in protection for this by scanning the incoming exert for a link to the current post. The initial problem with this approach (as Al explained to me) is that other blogs such as wordpress will only submit the first X number of characters if its a long post, meaning that a link back to my post may not be in there and the trackback will fail.
That aside, in my case nothing was never going to work even for ham, this...
WWDC, one of the more important events of the year for Apple has kicked off at 2am Aussie time with Steve Job's keynote presentation. This year Apple has unveiled the new MacPro sporting a Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor. Other notable mentions include the preview of Leopard (OSX10.5) which looks promising and has all the usual creative flavour Apple adds to everything.
Here are a couple of neat things in ASP.NET 2.0 that I've used recently.
Access the controls on a master page. You'd think it must be possible, and it is, it's easy to do.Label Label1 = (Label)Master.FindControl("Label1");
Label1.Text = "Set by child page";
ObjectDataSource...Before I used it I was suspecting that it may have been like one of the adapters in 1.1 which I try to keep away from on a the page itself. I find it cleaner to put all the database access logic in a datalayer under the business objects. Well it seems Microsoft may have been thinking...