Michael S. Clark

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 [...]

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 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.

I recently had a registry script (.reg) that I had to open to temporarily put certain values into my registry. It was quite a big file. I then realised that, apart from going through the script and removing each key and value individually, there was no automatic way to remove them; so I decided to [...]

I finally managed to find time to upload the photos I took at this years Seafront Spectacular in Arbroath. My brother, Bryan, was manning the RAF’s stand, and there a couple of photos of him in there too. You can view them by clicking here, or by going through the Galleries link at the top [...]

Dan has submitted this bug to Microsoft, and they’ve recognised it as a bug. Thanks for your feedback. We have reproduced this bug on Visual Studio Codename Orcas Beta1, and we are sending this bug to the appropriate group within the Visual Studio Product Team for triage and resolution. Thank you, Visual Studio Product Team. [...]

In a similar manor to the previous post, the following code can be used in the controller for event handlers for ToolStripMenuItem’s on a ContextMenuStrip. Unfortunately, due to a bug found by Dan, this code will not work for any ToolStripMenuItem’s that are in sub-menus in the ContextMenuStrip. Even when combined with the code from [...]

In C#, you have a Form that has a MenuStrip. The MenuStrip has several ToolStripMenuItem’s at different levels. The Form has a separate controller class. The controller class declares and initialises the Form and handles the Click events raised by the ToolStripMenuItem’s. With most other controls on a Form, a reference to the parent Form [...]