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Comment Email Responder

Is your blog sticky? Would you like your visitors to keep coming back for more? Well, one way to make sure this happens is to respond to the comments they leave on your blog. The question is, how do you make sure they get the… Read more »

Coding toolboxes

If you’re a full-time developer, well, even a part-time one, you could get some great benefit by making use ot tool libraries and source code on the web. I came across SharpToolbox with over 1000 tools for .Net and JavaToolBox with over 666 Java tools… Read more »

BizTalk Server 2006 – Auto-construction Issue

Excellent post by my colleague Charles entitled: BizTalk Server 2006: Auto-Construction of Orchestration Variables Considered Harmful. It talks about a problem he had with the way BizTalk auto-constructs variables that you use in your orchestration and how this caught him unawares. The main problem revolved… Read more »

How to write a custom WorkFlow Activity

If you’re messing around with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) one of the things you’re bound to need to do at some point is to create a custom Workflow Activity. There’s a good primer that explains how to do this here. It’s a good post and… Read more »

Desining your MOSS 2007 look and feel

Excellent set of articles on Liam Cleary’s blog on how to customise MOSS 2007 for your company. MOSS2007 – Look and Feel (Part 1 – The Beginning) MOSS2007 – Look and Feel (Part 2 – Navigation Bar Basics) MOSS2007 – Look and Feel (Part 3… Read more »

Let BugSentry handle your bug reports

Tired of users complaining about errors and not remembering to note down the problem? Bored of implementing your own error reporting routines over and over again? It might be worth checking out BugSentry. It’s an automatic reporting tool that’s supplied as a DLL you can… Read more »

640×480 is still alive .. and kicking

Interesting post on Raymond’s blog entitled: 640×480 is not dead. In it he discusses why this mode is still necessary and why dev teams shouldn’t forget about this. There’s some interesting comments following the post too. I must say, The Old New Thing is probably… Read more »