As part of a project that we are working on at the moment we need a way of converting a literal or constant into a lambda expression which when evaluated will yield the original literal value (in c#). This must work in the same way for multiple types. For example given the literal string “hello” […]
We are currently designing an new service offering, the details of which will be posted on our web page once they haven been finalised. In summary we will be offering a novel development/engineering service to web design firms. Often web design firms will not have the need for a full time technical person and then […]
Interesting thing, VMware have just announced that they will be offering their bare-metal (OS independent) server virtualisation system – ESXi hypervisor, for free. It used to cost about 500$. It can be downloaded from here, but as usual in these type of situations you have go to to the bother of registering first. Still, on balance it […]
The Microsoft Report Viewer is a handy way of producing reports without having to enter the Crystal Reports Quagmire, however deploying it within an ASP application to a Hosted environment can be quite involved as it may not be installed on your host system and it will usually not be possible to run the installer. Instead doing […]
While working on a custom XML data-driven content management system in ActionScript 3, we wanted to have our XML content meta-data reference the actual XML content data by means of XPath expressions – hence we needed some half decent XPath support within AS3. AS3 has quite good XML support, however its support for XPath expressions and queries is […]
We are evaluating Trac for a client who wants a lightweight web-based issue tracking system for one of their projects. Trac is an open source system. We are using the Trac hosting service provided by svnrepository.com, who as their name suggests also host subversion (which we also use). By default Trac integrates with subversion and indeed […]
A project that we’re currently working on requires that we read from and write to Excel files from our ASP application. As the application will be hosted in an environment that will not have Office installed (as most will not) we can’t use automation, and anyway it seems that using this kind of automation from […]