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ASP.NET & AlternatingRowS...

Posted by Jamsi on Sep 17th, 2009
If you’re a ASP.NET developer like myself, you may or may not have noticed a few changes to your sites when viewed in Internet Explorer 8. As an example I had a gridview which had a different background for alternating rows. <AlternatingRowStyle...

Installing Postgres gem on Win...

Posted by Jamsi on Jul 17th, 2009
So you’re trying to install the postgres gem for ruby on rails, but you’re getting the following message; Could not find PostgreSQL build environment (libraries & headers): Makefile not created This is most likely due to the fact...

cisvc errors on CRM 4.0 instal...

Posted by Jamsi on Dec 16th, 2008
I recently had the joy of installing Microsoft’s CRM 4.0 on Windows 2008. One of its prerequesitits is for the server “cisvc.exe” to be started. I had no idea what this meant. Luckly I managed to get it working by installed the...

The Ultimate Acer Aspire One L...

Posted by Jamsi on Dec 15th, 2008
So I managed to get my hands on one of these sexy little device and I must say, I’m damn impressed. What’s rather amusing is holding up the laptop in its leather case to a few friends and saying; what do you think this is? By far the...
recent from category one 3 of the Best CSS Tutorials
So I used to be one of those old “tables are still cool for layouts” kinda guys and proceeded to use tables for just about anything web related that I touched. But there came a moment where I decided .. you know what, everyone else is raving on about this CSS layout business, so I set out...
recent from category four How to fetch Last Record in Subsonic
Is it just me or is Subsonic the topic of discussion right now? I had a need to retrieve the last ID that had been generated in a table; that being, the last “auto increment” ID of a table. The following example worked a charm using Subsonic and activerecord. var fetch_ref_id = contract.All().OrderByDescending(c...