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One of the reasons I started this blog was because I felt I often came across nuggets of information that someone else out there may find useful in some small way and that I should share the

This is a useful stored procedure for assigning permissions to users quickly and easily. We tend to assign a new login to each application we develop, this way we limit the damage possible in the

While fitting my new chipset cooler fan this morning I was checking out an error message on Google (which as it turns out I knew the answer to) and I was presented with a CAPTCHA image –I guess

I ran into (another) interesting error today when using String.Format1. I was getting the error message "Input string was not in a correct format.". In this instance I was calling the content from an

On surfing around the net the other day looking for a replacement to Visual Studio 2003’s clipboard monitor I stumbled across this excellent Clipboard manager plug-in for Visual Studio 2005. As his

Sean Ronan (from Activepixels.co.uk) was asking me the other day why he was receiving a “Cannot convert ‘’ to DateTime” when writing:IIf(String.IsNullOrEmpty(DateOfBirth.Text), Nothing,

Ok, I think this has to be the most random post yet, I'm forever forgetting how old I am so popped onto Google and got a little calculator to tell me, the result was 24 (I was pretty darn sure about

I was sent this link by Craig this morning, it's most ammusing and yet another reason not to goto Germany...

For those of you interested, the photos from the Hastler Finals (National Canoe Finals) are now online, taken a few days but oh well that's life ;-)Photos from the Bedford Finals -

Craig found an amusing dity today, he was messing around with the settings in SQL Server Express and noticed these memory settings:For those of you who don’t want to deliminate it, that’s: