Michael S. Clark

While reading the latest installment of the CodeProject newsletter, I thought I’d highlight some of the useful topics: AJAX-style Asynchronous Progress Dialog for WinForms – A base class for adding a rich asynchronous progress animation to any Form xml to json – convert xml to json – faster, stronger and more comfortable Running a Web [...]

One of the clients of the company I work for required a client that was predominantly keyboard based to enable them to perform batch processing. This wasn’t a problem as netBake has similar functionality to enable fast entry of Orders, etc. Whilst the client was evaluating the latest build of the client, she noticed that [...]

Further to the previous post, I am using javascript to parse times in the form “09:00″ selected from a drop down list. To get the hours and minutes, I was using the following code: … var theHours = parseInt(theTimeDDL.options[theTimeDDL.selectedIndex].value.substring(0,2)); var theMinutes = parseInt(theTimeDDL.options[theTimeDDL.selectedIndex].value.substring(3,5)); … Unfortunately, the above will return 0 for the values of 08 [...]

I had to find an AJAX library that could handle multiple concurrent calls for a project that we are currently updating. I came across this one that does the job superbly.

The DYMO discpainter surely has to be the biggest innovation in labeling since Lightscribe Using Radialprint technology the DYMO lays down ink directly onto the disc as it spins. The user is able to utilise every part of the surface from the inner hub to the outer edge.Print times are excellent ranging from 60 seconds [...]

I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 machine running this website amongst other things. My main machine runs Vista. If I have to get access to the server, I use Remote Desktop as you do. Now I don’t know iof this a bug or not, but it’s quite annoying. Remote Desktop saves the username and [...]

My dad got a call a couple of weeks back from the chairman of the Oyster Trust in Arbroath. He’s a old work colleague from Halliburton so he and my dad got on. The Oyster Trust run Oyster Craft and the Oyster Bar, or OB’s; a sort of alcohol-free pub where “the kidz” can go and [...]

Following on from this article, I thought I’d post a few others: http://www.tech-recipes.com/ - “Your cookbook of tech-tutorials” http://vixy.net/ - “Online FLV Converter” http://www.media-convert.com/ - “100% free online file conversion” http://www.google.com/analytics/ - “Google Analytics helps you identity the keywords, ads, referrals, and campaigns that contribute the most to your bottom line” http://cl1p.net/ - “Copy and paste between computers in three [...]

I came across FreeYourID.com recently. We activate your personalized address for all your web identity data and services on the Internet personal identity space, .name, and an email address you actually can own for life, as opposed to having an address on someone else’s domain. It comes with an identity management service using OpenID, and [...]

I recently signed up for Google Analytics and added my sites and the sites created and hosted by the company I work for. The WordPress plugin I chose is this one by Semiologic. A very valuable tool if you’re interested in site usage statistics.