Category Archives: Code

I while ago I watched a talk by Antoney Marcano at skills matter about a new framework called cukesalad which sits on top of ruby cucumber and allows the test framework to be used without having to write step definitions.  … Continue reading →

  oh heck why can’t I resist them, give me a what type of xyz are you questionnaire and I am off, hopeless, well here is another one, this time "What sort of Programmer are you" it turns out that … Continue reading →

  This post is actually for my benefit, I want to try out using a tag cloud on a web page I am playing with at the moment, mainly to see how the data will look. This looked a good … Continue reading →

One of those things that I am always forgetting the correct syntax for, here is a handy reference for string formatting in c# SteveX compiled

Problem:   I am working on  a web form that has a date input field, the date is entered as a string and then converted to a date for storage.   This is ok if the users only enter dates … Continue reading →