100 Incredible Free Technical Courses

Published 30 October 2009 10:06 by Ross in Courses | Training
A post listing 100 Incredible Open Courses for the Ultimate Tech Geek has just been posted on the onlinecourses.org blog.  There is a huge variety of courses here from the very basic to advanced algorithms, all are free and a lot come from MIT. 

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.NET MVC Cheat Sheets

Published 29 October 2009 12:15 by Ross in .NET | MVC
A selection of MVC .NET cheat sheets [More]

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Scott Gu has just blogged about improvements made to the add reference dialog in VS 2010. This has always been really slow and a major pain. It seems the VS 2010 team have listened to everyone’s gripes and now by default the dialog opens on the “Projects Tab” and when using the &ld... [More]

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IE6, IE7 and IE8 CSS Support

Published 15 October 2009 10:24 by Ross in CSS | Design | IE
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Smashing Magazine has posted a great article on CSS support between the different versions of IE. The article is very in depth (I learned some new CSS Properties) and well worth a read. The only noticeable ommission I found was the IE6 double margin bug which catches me out on a regular basi... [More]

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I just wanted to run an assembly from a network drive and this assembly was failing because network drives are untrusted because of CAS (Code Access Security). If you are in a similar permission and want to give a network drive full trust you can use the caspol.exe tool located in the .NET F... [More]

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IE 6 Double Margin Bug

Published 1 October 2009 12:17 by Ross in CSS | IE
I'm commonly searching on the internet for the solution to the IE 6 double margin bug so I thought I would finally get round to committing it to the blog. In IE 6 When you are floating a div you may get double the margin you expect. The solution to this is to use: display: inline; o... [More]

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