Monthly Archives: September, 2007
Visual C# 2005: A Developer’s Notebook
I’ve only recently discovered the “Notebook” series from O’Reilly, having long since been a fan of their books. This book takes you from the position of “familiar with C#.NET” and transforms you into a guru! The format is very much a hands-on tutorial – it’s not a book to read on a long journey! You [...]
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Breaking news – the Semiologic website that I referred to in my previous post is down! Is this planned maintenance? Is there a problem?? Are they even aware of it??? All that I’m seeing is a default WordPress page: Watch this space – I’ll post a message once it’s live again!
“Call yourself a techie???”
I was wrestling (again) with WordPress yesterday trying to persuade my custom, Semiologic theme to let me change the color of the site title above (now blue – it used to be red!). It was clearly an <h1> tag, and was clearly in the #sitename section, but no amount of coaxing, hacking or swearing would [...]
Adding a “Links” section in WordPress
OK, OK, so it’s probably obvious to anyone who’s been using WordPress for a while, but I’ll tell you what, trying to find out how to get the word “Links” to appear on my right-hand sidebar, rather than “Blogroll” has taken hours of searching! It’s just NOT documented anywhere that I could find. There’s no [...]
Adding hyperlinks in Outlook
Most people will be familiar with having hyperlinks automatically appear in their Outlook emails whenever they type a URL (unless they’re using text mode). However, I see many technically adept people sending out just a simple URL that’s not clickable. This is due to how Outlook uses auto-correct to change a simply URL into a hyperlink [...]
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