Scripting language loveliness
I’ve been adventuring, not for the first time, into the world of Datatables. I’ve worked with this library in the past and, through recent work, ended up deciding it was high time I put together a small, re-usable utility module. There were a number of underlying use cases to cover: The module needed to configure […]
I’m having a random ‘pick a Channel 9 video and blog from there’ session; the subject of the day is Azure Maps and the inspiration came in the form of this video. The plan is to see what I can achieve in an hour or two, so here’s my quick rundown to wet your whistle. […]
I’ve recently been heavily embedded in implementing time zone sensitivity into a web application and I thought I’d share my first experiences on handling this from the perspective of the browser. A great little library for handling this kind of tricky number can be found in the form of Moment Timezone, which sits proudly beside […]
Greetings all, In the interim, whilst I juggle my time to get more in-depth posts rolled out (like the one surrounding Alexa skills), I back-tracked once again to look at overlooked features from the distant past of SQL 2008. I’ve chosen the topic of GROUPING SETS as the basis of this post; which basically boils […]
Greetings! A tidbit found by a friend of mine online, forming the basis for a small piece of work I’ve done this week surrounding name capitalisation. This was pulled from a stack overflow article so credit where credit is due for starters: js-regex-for-human-names This is fairly robust, covering Mc, Mac, O’s and double-barrelled, hyphenated names. […]
Good evening all, Umm…how an earth did I miss this language feature? Where have I been since the release of SQL Server 2008? This really did just pass me by. I’m in the position whereby I don’t often run into this situation; where a T-SQL MERGE statement is directly applicable (i.e. table synchronisation), but still, […]
A very small post this one, covering a little nugget that I’d almost forgot until it came up trumps again this week; TSQL FOR XML PATH can be a nice solution for concatenation of strings across rows (in a given column). It’s fairly common to have the need to concatenate column based data, as the […]
Happy New Year everyone! I hope the holiday season was full of beer, wine, grub and every other kind of delightful merriment imaginable. The bear is back and absolutely raring to go! So, in an attempt to be a little more diligent and focused, I’ll crack on with the list of goodies I wanted to […]
I wanted to outline some recent work I’ve done with the reCAPTCHA Google API. Although not too difficult to implement, I did struggle a little to find C# based server side examples on how to ultimately validate a CAPTCHA. To start us off however, what is reCAPTCHA? reCAPTCHA is essentially a mechanism to protect your […]
Hello beautiful people! It’s a fantastic, gorgeous Saturday morning (it’ll be Monday by the time I hit the publish button, such is the enormity of the post!); the birds are chirping, the sun is shining through the balcony windows (and there is a bloody wasp outside, STILL!!!) and my wife has left me…………to go on […]
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