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re: Running a stored procedure from Windows Task Scheduler

Brad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:22:27 GMT

Or you could run a stored procedure directly from the task scheduler VisualCron -> http://www.visualcron.com

re: IE6 Ajax error "object doesn't support this property..."

Mangesh — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:58:36 GMT

Thanks , this worked for me also.

re: Firefox download: limited to two files at the same time

bloom — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:59:27 GMT

Thanks for this little but useful information . Ciao

re: Heads-up on Silverlight

Kasper Lund — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:12:54 GMT

Yeah he seems kind of biased towards this new revolution technology ;-)

Hehe, forget all I have stated earlier. SilverFlashLight is the obvious horse to put all your money on.

re: Heads-up on Silverlight

Anders Vindberg — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:31:49 GMT

I kinda get the feeling that you are affiliated with that enterprise in some way Kristian? LOL I see your point, SilverFlashLight is the future!

re: Heads-up on Silverlight

Kristian Lund — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:59:49 GMT

I am not sure that I agree with you guys. I think that both FLASH and SILVERLIGHT are obsolete. The future of dynamic web presentations lies somewhere else. I've stumble across this technology: www.qvikbutik.dk/.../index.html - that impress me far more than FLASH and SILVERLIGHT...

re: Safari/Webkit for Windows

Anders Vindberg — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:29:02 GMT

I see your point, maybe I should have mentioned that the Apollo Runtime is still in Alpha release, this app may crash from time to time. However, the essence of this topic remains - Apollo is (unintentionally) helping Windows users test websites with the WebKit layout engine - no need for vmware or a MAC :)

re: Safari/Webkit for Windows

Florian — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:32:51 GMT

You know that's perfectly useless. Why? Well on windoze apollo attempts to store temporary files in documents&settings of the user. Only, it doesn't handle foldernames with latin-1 characters in them or something, because it fails to locate files it would need to launch.

So long apollo, just another heap of crapware.

re: The overlooked benefits of anchor linking (to any website!)

Anders Vindberg — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:53:27 GMT

Hehe, you noticed :) I tried getting this through Digg, but couldn't get enough momentum (only 2 diggs + my own). I think it is valuable knowledge that needs more attention or at least dissemination.

re: The overlooked benefits of anchor linking (to any website!)

Joen — Sun, 13 May 2007 15:35:17 GMT

Hehehe, you sneaky one.

Yep, I admit that is quite clever. Very nice.

re: Heads-up on Silverlight

Anders Vindberg — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:07:28 GMT

In other words, Apollo is a browser :) Or is it an object within the browser that display HTML! That just doesn't make sense.

re: Heads-up on Silverlight

Joen — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:54:17 GMT

You forget: Adobe Apollo is not just Flash (or Flex). It's also HTML, CSS and AJAX.

re: Heads-up on Silverlight

Anders Vindberg — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:09:13 GMT

Ecosystems aside, I believe this is a fight for developers, a fight for the best API and development tools. With that regard, lately I have been working with the Prototype and Script.aculo.us javascript libraries, in combination with ASP.NET, and I must say, its not the most efficient way of production. It's my upcoming Firefox questionnaire survey and new questions emerge as the first set have been answered. There is a lot of conditional show/hide/disable/enable and slide-up and -down. I was kinda missing the timeline as found in Flash. I think the Sliverlight solution of combining the two approaches (programatical and timeline based animation) is spot on. Another issue with Ajax (if not using Ajax.Net) is the extra layer of abstraction, I need to serialize and deserialize objects, check types, and setup validation on both client and serverside. And for what? Clean and structured JavaScript and HTML code :)

re: Heads-up on Silverlight

Joen — Wed, 09 May 2007 07:47:48 GMT

I used to bet on Flash. Then I finally succumbed to the far superior HTML.

This time, I'm not so sure.

Webapps on steroids seem to tickle me just right. Especially those that are so complex that they can compete with "real" apps. You know I dumped Thunderbird in favor of Gmail, so web-apps _can_ win.

Will I dump OpenOffice for Google Docs?

We'll see. Right now my money is on Adobe winning the first round. The second round will be decided by hardware acceleration.

re: Heads-up on Silverlight

Anders Vindberg — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:11:33 GMT

Hi Kasper, nice of you to drop by (again), you must be loving the new design :)

Again, I still think it depends on the context of things. Are you building a functional web application that requires desktop-like behaviour, or are you simply displaying (and linking) information of text! A HTML-centric solution resolves many of the design issues that otherwise needs to be defined explicitly. However, I agree its a difficult platform to work on (as with many none-proprietary frameworks), but it is getting better! A multitude of JavaScript libraries have seen the light lately, streamlining development across layout engines. The same goes for markup and stylesheets, a set of CSS-Reset definitions and a handful of guiding rules almost make web development consistent.

I believe that the main reason a plug-in module (as Silverlight is) hasn't taken presence over HTML is 1) because hypertext and browser navigation is an ingenious solution to most challenges, 2) because plug-ins haven't been implemented into the ecosystem of the web, specifically being searchable and page-centric.

The lack of security concerning AJAX, I dont see it as a big issue, for the most part (of what I have seen) AJAX is primarily used in none-critical security environments. Are you specifically thinking about POST form usage?