Recently we had a client ask us to add a label in front of the paging control on an ASP.NET gridview numeric paging control so that users would know what the numbers meant. This seemed like a reasonable request as we were dealing with users who may not be the most tech savvy, plus it didn’t seem like there would be much work that would need to be put in to accomplish this goal. To understand the solution you need to understand the steps at which it took to get there. The first thing I tried was modifying the PagerTemplate, but little did I know that in ASP.NET when you modify this template on a GridView you overwrite the entire paging control. This obviously wasn’t [Read More...]
Google announced that beginning soon they would allow you to upload files of any type to Google Docs and offer you 1 GB of additional storage free. This is something that I have heard rumors about for awhile, so I wasn’t surprised when it was announced, but I have been personally dreading it. You see my employer owns an online file storage website called TrueShare, which I have been the primary developer on for over 2 years now. The website itself has been around much much longer than that though, it started in 2003 as a website called Easy FTP and then became TrueShare. Since I have been on the TrueShare project I have put a great deal of hard work into the application, but [Read More...]
Google has put it’s foot down this time in regards to Chinese censorship of information. Google has stated that they will no longer censor their results on google.cn and that if it means they will no longer be able to operate in China they will be taking their site down. Google was founded and it gained it’s huge success off of freedom of information, well that and advertisements. So it makes sense that they are backing freedom of information in China, it’s just unfortunate that it is going to likely cost Google’s Chinese employees their jobs.
I’m going to jump on the band wagon today and talk about something that is a hot topic for the day. Currently News Corp. (owners of Fox) and Time Warner Cable are in deadlocked negotiations over renewing of a contract. This effects me directly as their current contract is set to expire at the end of the year, as in tonight. If an agreement isn’t met then at that time all of News Corp’s television stations we be blacked out on Time Warner Cable’s television services. As a Time Warner subscriber I stand to loose my ability to watch these channels come the new year. Now, I highly doubt that it will come to that, as both companies stand to loose a lot from not [Read More...]
Anyone can tell you that even if a web exceeds expectations in functionality if it isn’t visually appealing it is doomed for failure. This is where some of the greatest difficulty in creating a website comes in, making one that is both functional and appealing to the eye can be hard if you don’t an artist on your side. This is the problem I face when creating a website from scratch, my artistic nature is more in the logic and functional side of things and not on the visual end. So when I create a website I generally go with the tried and true method of a simple three column layout. Previously to accomplish my goal of this simple layout I would use tables, but [Read More...]
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