In the movie 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' we see a young Bill Gates sell a multi million dollar contract to provide his disk operating software (DOS) to IBM. The resulting contract kick started his Microsoft empire. The 'slight' problem, that we discover after the meeting, was that Bill had no such product at the time. … Continue reading Sell before you buy – Real Estate
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Mail scanning service for travellers who cannot access their post
IAs a consultant and frequent traveller I, like many others, spend a lot of time away from home. In particular if I was to travel the world for an extended period I would like to have a service where I could forward my mail to that would open and scan my mail for me. I … Continue reading Mail scanning service for travellers who cannot access their post
Time Management: The 4 D’s
Time management is a skill that you constantly have to work on. As soon as you think your on top of it and relax the Inbox and Task list will start to pile up again. Unfotunatley, I like most other people, operate in a very start/stop fashion where we let things build up until we … Continue reading Time Management: The 4 D’s
Embeded GPS co-ordinates in photos
Imagine if you wanted to find your pictures from that 'weekend in Rome' you could simply fire up Google Maps/Earth and zoom into Rome Italy.The good news is that the latest batch of mobile phones (like the Nokia 95) comes with a Camera and a GPS receiver in the one unit. Continued convergence of these … Continue reading Embeded GPS co-ordinates in photos
My Portfolio by Bank of America
Bank of America's 'My Portfolio' feature is a great (and free) tool to have a one stop view of all of your financial information... and a whole lot more!!I have used the portfolio feature for over a year to pull information from my HSBC, American Express, Chase, Vanguard 401K, Etrade, etc... accounts into one consolidated … Continue reading My Portfolio by Bank of America
Hello World
Excuse the title, but anyone with a Computer science background, will get the message. This is my second attempt at a blog and my first using Blogger.com.I've decided to start this blog as I have been inspired by a buddy (Jason Brubaker) and his excellent http://www.wealthkick.com/ blog. I doubt that my content will be as … Continue reading Hello World
Remove the comma from WebNumericEdit
If you do not want to display the comma in the Infragistcs WebNumberic Edit control. //WebNumericEdit control will use a comma to seperate number groups //This will prevent 1234567 being displayed as 1,234,567 //Requires: using System.Globalization; NumberFormatInfo numInfo = new NumberFormatInfo(); numInfo.NumberGroupSeparator = ""; this.txt_Pfizer_id.NumberFormat = numInfo;
UltraWebGrid helper to find a column index based on the caption
In order to avoid WEAK typing ( i.e. e.Row.Cells[5] ) I have written a helper method to return the index of an Infragistics UltraWebGrid column based upon its caption text. This is probably best explained via an example: In this scenario a row in my SOLVENT search results has been clicked. I want to load … Continue reading UltraWebGrid helper to find a column index based on the caption
The theme of collaboration – Some ideas for articles
I was recently asked to help identifying some key articles, scenarios and technologies that we could highlight in an upcoming magazine on collaboration. As a framework we are looking at collaboration between individuals, between organisations, between organisations and individuals and between teams across a 'lifecycle' of innovation from idea generation through to delivering the desired … Continue reading The theme of collaboration – Some ideas for articles
How to … Set up LLBLgen Databinding in Visual Studio
LLBLGen Pro ships with its own DataSource controls: LLBLGenProDataSource for selfservicing LLBLGenProDataSource2 for adapter. These also are located in the SD.LLBLGen.Pro.ORMSupportClasses dll for .NET 2.0 and you have to add them to the toolbox first. This can be done manually by right-clicking the toolbox when a webform is open in the editor (HTML or design … Continue reading How to … Set up LLBLgen Databinding in Visual Studio
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