Review of the Amazon Kindle
Overall Ranking: 10/10 This Christmas I succumb to pressure and purchase a Kindle. First thoughts The Good The clarity is superb The Kindle screen increases readability slightly compared to the printed page The Kindle page is slightly smaller than an ordinary paperback page. This was nice actually. The software is intuitive It arrives pre-setup for […]
A quick guide to prioritizing email
Estimated read time – 3 minutes Estimated completion time – 20 minutes Estimated payback period – 10 working days I have had my current work account for seven and a half years. I signed up for many email newsletters and alerts over the past seven years. I did a quick check and found I had […]
Merry Christmas Everyone
This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the Digital Tool Factory blog
How to fix “The entry ‘ScriptModule’ has already been added.” error
The Problem: The web application works just fine on the local machine, but when you upload it to the web server you get the error “The entry ‘ScriptModule’ has already been added.” The Cause: It is a conflict between asp.net versions. The Solution: Simply comment out the <add name=”ScriptModule” type=”System.Web.Handlers.ScriptModule, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35″/> line […]
A surprise productivity tip – posture edition
Try this, I went through an abnormally focused period today and it seemed to be caused by a slightly different posture. Sit in chair normally with good posture, nothing special. Arch back slightly Lean forward about 3 inches more than normal Open your eyes about 5 millimeters more than normal See if that works. I […]
The wisdom of Tim Ferriss
If you know me personally, then you’ve heard me rave about the work of Tim Ferriss. I heard him give a talk about the release of the new edition of his book, the Four Hour Work Week. Here are some adages I thought were particularly powerful, and true, at least in my case Whenever you […]
How to create a fully validated asp.net calendar control
The Problem: You have to have a fully validated date box. The dates must be valid dates and there must be data entered in the field. The Cause: Not a problem really, I wind up rewriting it slightly differently each time. I thought I would put a definitive version here. The Solution: Use this code<asp:TextBox […]
How to fix problem with intellisense in Visual Studio 2008
The Problem: For whatever reason Intelliense in Visual Studio shows up for standard asp.net web controls appears on some pages and not on others. The Cause: Visual Studio is a tricky little program, I have no idea why this happened. I went though the web.config files, encoding, rebooted and still got no resolution. The Solution: […]
How to fix the Adobe Acrobat “Save As” error
The Problem: You attempt to save a dynamically generated pdf built from a website and get the error “The document could not be saved, a number is out of range” The Cause: Incompatibility of settings between the version of Acrobat that created the pdf and the version of Acrobat that is being used to view […]
How to programmatically create an Excel Spreadsheet in ASP.net/ C#
The Problem: You need to create a dynamic excel spreadsheet in C#/ASP.net. There are several ways to accomplish this, but this is one I use when I don’t need to specify the column names order to any great detail. I’ve included it in the How To Fix series simply because it took me more than […]