When someone buys you a bag of Haribo, what do you do with it?

Haribo Experiment

http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html

This guy has written a nice solution to styling the input type="file". Check it out, worth a read just to be aware of the problem.

Rocking little site that finds the type of font used in an image.

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

Really useful for amending existing images.

More pearls of wisdom, before you go slagging a class of in .net try to make sure you know what your talking about first. In my previous post i was discussing the threadpool class and about long running tasks. Turns out that was complete rubbish and the threadpool class is great in everyway. Just don’t send the threads into an infinite loop *grin*

ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(AddressOf Method) is great for having some free thread handling. It will queue up the method to be executed on any spare system thread lying around.

One small note however is do not put anything that might take more than a second or two onto that system. I used the ThreadPool class to do some WebRequest work and after 3-4 requests, my whole machine came to a grinding halt.

Public Shared Sub JumpToBookmark(ByVal Page As Page, ByVal BookMark As String)

I was going to put something great in here... Now im just gonna put a lame plug for my site.

www.silvergames.net

Go be happy.

http://www.csszengarden.com/

Feel the power of pure CSS might. The site has only one page of html, the only thing that changes is the css files. Stunning!

Argh! One problem I keep hitting in SQL Server is a function to compare days. All I want to do is check if one date is greater than another date without comparing any time values, so just the days.

One solution our R&D guy came up with is to use a numeric value to compare the days. Its not a great solution but it works.

(DATEPART(yyyy, @DateTime) * 1000) + DATEPART(dy, @DateTime)

To make life a little easier we made it a user defined function to compare the days.

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.ifnDateToNumber (@DateTime as datetime)
RETURNS int

--Convert datetime into an integer based on (YEARS * 1000) + dayofyear
--this can then be used in datetime comparisons to avoid the problem of random time values
--being considered when comparing dates
AS
 BEGIN
 return (DATEPART(yyyy, @DateTime) * 1000) + DATEPART(dy, @DateTime)
 END

Who would have thought Blog would come to MSN? Well it's here and it's kinda cool.