Web developer? Want to turn off or disable the cache in Firefox for testing? Well, by default you can’t – but there is an easy solution!
How To: Disable the Cache in Firefox
November 25th, 2009 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsTagged in: Firefox Plugins Web Development
pstopdffilter/pstocupsraster failed with err number -31000
November 13th, 2009 | by Adam Pope | 1 CommentTrying to print from Windows using Parallels 4.0 under Mac OS X Snow Leopard and getting the infuriating and useless error message “pstopdffilter/pstocupsraster failed with err number -31000″?
Classic Programming Quotes
May 14th, 2009 | by Adam Pope | 50 CommentsA selection of our favourite, classic programming quotes from the some of the industries biggest names.
Tagged in: Funny Programming
Include Today in the Default Google Analytics Date Range
May 14th, 2009 | by Adam Pope | 13 Comments
By default, Google Analytics shows you the statistics for a 30 day period up to the previous complete day. For example, today is the 14th of May and Analytics is showing me stats for 14th April -> 13th May. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit of a stats junky. I like to know what’s going on. As a result, the first thing I do when I load up Google Analytics, is to open the date range picker and change it so that today’s stats are included.
Tagged in: Analytics Google Greasemonkey JavaScript
Overriding maintainScrollPositionOnPostBack with GridView Pager links
May 12th, 2009 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsRecently, I was dealing with a large dataset in ASP.NET. I was using the GridView control to display the data to the user. The user was required to scroll down the page and use pagination links to view all of the data. Paging events are triggered as PostBacks. If you are using the smart navigation features of ASP.NET, this causes some serious user experience issues. Here’s how to fix it.
Twitter to Crawl Tweeted Links
May 8th, 2009 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsTwitter Search is widely considered as the most exciting aspect of Twitter, and it’s about to get a whole lot more interesting.
Tagged in: Search Social Web Twitter
Follow Storm Consultancy
May 7th, 2009 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsYou can now get updates from Storm Consultancy on Twitter and Facebook!
Tagged in: Facebook Social Media Storm Twitter
Microsoft Action Pack Subscription (MAPS) Contents
May 7th, 2009 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsStorm Consultancy have become an official <a href=”https://partner.microsoft.com”>Microsoft Partner</a> (which is free to registered companies). One of the perks of membership is access to the Microsoft Action Pack. Finding the exact details of the content is quite tricky however, so we thought we’d share a list of what arrived in ours. The list is quite impressive!
Generic HashTable in C#
February 12th, 2009 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsI had a bit of a brain fail earlier and couldn’t remember how to create a <strong>HashTable</strong> with generic type arguments. There was a Hashtable and a HashSet<> but neither were what I was looking for.
Tagged in: C#
Sine Wave Frequency Sweep with Audacity
November 5th, 2008 | by Adam Pope | 10 CommentsI was recently trying to create a sine wave frequency sweep audio sample file to test out a digital signal processing (DSP) filter I was trying to write. Using Audacity, you can create plug-ins to achieve all sorts of cool effects. After a little experimentation I came up with the following code:
