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Just found out I got a 1st for my degree as well as the Sulivan Award for best project for the year!
Muney: Organizing a students finances
This is the first of a series of articles about my dissertation, a personal financial management application for students. The first task was to organize a users finances by importing their financial ...
Muney: Financial Management for Students
Over the past year, I have spent quite a long time on my dissertation. I’m pretty proud of it and I have had quite a few positive comments from various lecturers (I’ve ...
Subsonic like NHibernate Query Generator button in Visual Studio
One thing I love about SubSonic, in fact the reason i switched, was how awsome the querying is. I don't know why but something like new UserCollection().Where("UserID", id).Where("Password", password) just does it ...
Monorail: Get client's browser
For future reference, to get the clients browser: $Context.UnderlyingContext.Request.Browser.Browser This is infact accessing the HttpRequest.Browser property so you can then get all the usual info like browser version: $Context.UnderlyingContext.Request.Browser.MajorVersion Hope this helps someone!
Visual Studio syntax highlighting for Monorail views
I was just having a look through the options in visual studio 2008 and noticed a new section for selecting the default editor for non-standard files, such as monorail views (.vm). ...
Get the currency symbol for the ISO 4217 Currency Code (C#)
Had a bit of a problem today. After importing a bunch of transactions I needed to display the corresponding currency symbol. The problem was when you import OFX transactions, the currency is ...
Web Hosting Workaround for monorail
So I recently needed to put an web app I wrote with monorail online. Ended up buying hosting through re-invent who have so far have been very good. The one ...
NVelocity: Get Current Position In ForEach Loop
Just a reminder for myself, To the get the current iteration number in a foreach loop $velocityCount
Problems with the Linq2Sql
I have just been reading Scott Guthrie's post on the new ASP.Net MVC framework. Firstly, for the most part I am really amazed with what Microsoft have come up with and ...