This is for everyone that hasn't received this in an email yet. What follows is a complaint letter send by a dissatisfied customer on a flight from Mumbai to England. Enjoy! "Dear Mr Branson REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th December 2008 I love the Virgin brand, I really do which is why I continue t... [More]

Scott Gu has just announced the release of the ASP.NET Release Candidate on his blog where he also goes through some of the changes making it in to this release. One really nice feature that jumped out at me is that you can create your own scaffold templates or override the existing ones using the... [More]

Microsoft have announced on the IE8 Blog that the first release candidate for IE 8 can now be downloaded and users already running a beta version of IE 8 will be offered an update through Windows Update. The new version of IE offers vastly improved conformance with web based standards hopefu... [More]

I just came across a dofollow blog search engine at www.inlineseo.com which is well worth checking out. For those of you who don't know what a dofollow blog is. Most blogs when a user posts a comment with a link the engine attaches a "nofollow" tag to the link. Google states ... [More]

Here is a great list of alternative search engines that are better at finding things than Google in particular niche areas covering everything from music to recipes.

Every year old-school web design guru Jakob Nielsen releases a survey of the world's top Intranets. This year's report has some interesting comments on the use of 'web 2.0' techniques in company intranets. The report is always an intresting read. You can find the report here ... [More]

Now that Firefox supports content editable divs I have recently been interested in implementing a cross browser WYSIWYG editor based on content editable divs allowing in context editing in both IE and Firefox. Unfortunatley, by default Firefox will not allow Javascript to access the clipboard whic... [More]

Tech evangelist and Microsoft consultant Blake Handler hosts an impressively completist list of free Windows programs offered by Microsoft, dug from the trenches of Del.icio.us tags.

When you are using a textbox for a password field in .NET and hence have its TextMode property set to 'Password' you cannot set the Text property of the textbox at runtime. This is a bit of a pain but is by design to prevent an unmasked password being displayed in the page. Sometimes... [More]